In October of the Golden Autumn, the China Yachting Masters set sail in Shencheng, with a significant upgrade to help Shanghai build an urban "water reception hall"
One person, one sail, one board, riding the wind and breaking the waves. The 5th China Sailing Masters 2023 will be held from October 9th to 13th in Jinwu Peninsula, Jinze Town, Qingpu District, Shanghai. Since its establishment in 2018, this competition has been successfully held for four sessions so far. This year's competition will also usher in more heavyweight upgrades, helping Shanghai build a city's "water reception hall".
On the afternoon of August 31st, the press conference of the 5th China Yachting Masters 2023 was held at the Sports Building. Zhang Xiaodong, Chairman of the China Yachting Association, introduced the event.
Three major upgrades make the competition more exciting
Comprehensive upgrading is the biggest feature of this competition. Including event sequence upgrade: This event will be upgraded from the National Sailing Masters to the Chinese Sailing Masters. The Chinese Yachting Masters will be included in the International Sailing Federation's event sequence. In the future, this event will not only be aimed at domestic professional athletes and a large number of windsurfing enthusiasts, but also invite Olympic athletes to participate, striving to gradually develop the Chinese windsurfing Masters into an international brand event; Upgrade of the participating lineup: In this competition, on the basis of retaining the master group, professional and amateur groups will be added for the first time. The male and female professional groups are composed of outstanding active windsurfing athletes, including members of the national windsurfing team and the top 15 male and female athletes in the 2023 National Windsurfing Championships.
Women's windsurfing champion Lu Yunxiu, men's windsurfing bronze medalist Bi Kun, and future windsurfing champions from the Hangzhou Asian Games will all participate in this event. Amateur athletes are widely accepted for social registration, and there will be windsurfing enthusiasts from Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Anhui, Heilongjiang, Henan, Fujian, Hainan and other places to participate in the competition; Event Reward Upgrade: This competition will set up a prize money to encourage participants to achieve outstanding results. The total prize money for the male and female professional groups is 228000 yuan, including a champion prize money of 60000 yuan, a runner up prize money of 20000 yuan, and a third place prize money of 10000 yuan. This is also the first time that the China Yachting Masters has established a prize money for an event.
"Water Sports Industry" Helps Rural Revitalization
Shanghai is a city that grows and thrives on water, with a profound history of water sports. It is the cradle of China's Olympic champions in sailing and windsurfing, and has successfully created numerous high-quality water events. The venue of this competition, Qingpu District, will take the opportunity of the China Yachting Masters, with Meifan Water Sports Club, Jinwu Peninsula Water Base, and other main venues to continuously gather water sports energy, promote local cultural dissemination, and pave the way for rural revitalization through the integration of culture and tourism and the development of sports.
The settlement of this national level windsurfing competition in Jinze, a water town, is an active exploration of high-level events to help promote rural revitalization and development. The aim is to combine "sports+tourism" with rural revitalization, using water sports as the starting point, connecting rural sports and fitness, leisure sports, and sports events, creating a new experience of rural life that integrates service, quality, and leisure, and actively promoting the construction of beautiful countryside. Jinze will utilize its unique natural advantages to create a "one town, one product" water project with water town characteristics. With a "sports+X" development model, it will create a "thousand sails competing, hundred boats competing" water carnival activity, showcasing the beautiful ecological coastline of the Yangtze River Delta demonstration zone, and exploring new paths for rural revitalization and development.
The hosting of the 5th China Yachting Masters in 2023 will further promote the popularization and improvement of water sports such as windsurfing in Shanghai, enrich the supply of brand event activities, and create a "Shanghai style" landscape sports that combines professional competitiveness and public participation. In the future, the establishment and introduction of a series of high-quality sailing and windsurfing events will help Shanghai and even the Yangtze River Delta region, which have vast advantageous resources in rivers, lakes, and seas, continue to ride the wind and waves, use events to drive tourism, use events to promote development, and use events to showcase their charm.
