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february 19, 2013 - Volvo Ocean Race
Volvo Car Group hometown Gothenburg to stage Volvo Ocean Race finale in 2015
Gothenburg is Sweden's second largest city, Scandinavia's largest port and has a well earned reputation for hosting major sporting events. 201415 will be the third time Gothenburg has hosted the Volvo Ocean Race and the second time it has staged the finale, following the success of 200506, when ABN AMRO ONE sailed into the port as overall race winners.
Gothenburg, the headquarters of event owners Volvo, hosted the Volvo Ocean Race in 200102 and again in 2005 06 and has also staged the World and European Athletics Championships (1995 and 2006, respectively), as well as the World Figure Skating Championships (2008) and the final of the European Soccer Championship in 1992 among major events. The European Indoor Athletics Championships take place in the city in March 2013.
The city of Gothenburg on the west coast of Sweden is the fourth Host Port on the 201415 route to be revealed so far. The 12th edition of an event that began life in 1973 as the Whitbread Round the World Race will start from Alicante in Spain and call first at Recife in north east Brazil. Later in the race, the teams will visit Auckland in New Zealand before rounding Cape Horn for a second Brazilian stop in Recife...
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