雪梨至荷巴特帆船賽（Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race）期間，因惡劣天氣導致多艘賽艇退出比賽，兩名選手因船上事故不幸喪生，距離上一次出現致命事故已經相隔26年。賽事主辦單位週五（27）確認了消息，但表示比賽將繼續進行，並表示風速及浪高對大部分選手來說屬於可控範圍。
The second man killed during yesterday's Sydney Hobart Yacht Race has been identified as WA man Roy Quaden.
915MHz AntennaThe 55-year-old had travelled to join the NSW-based Flying Fish Arctos crew as its navigator and was tragically killed when he was struck in the back of the head by the… pic.twitter.com/kOV0PhktvO
— 9News Australia (@9NewsAUS) December 27, 2024
據悉，事故發生在兩艘參賽船隻Flying Fish Arctos與Bowline上，第一艘船的於新南威爾士州烏拉杜拉發生意外，一名船員分別被船帆下方的橫桿（boom）擊中致命。
Two killed in treacherous Sydney-Hobart yacht race.
Both crew members -- a 55-year-old man on Flying Fish Arctos and a 65-year-old man on Bowline -- were struck on the head by booms as the yachts raced along the New South Wales coast, police saidhttps://t.co/MnJzd92c9y pic.twitter.com/6TuKiJo67l
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