Rankings going into next month's prestigious Argo Gold Cup Match Racing regatta in Hamilton Harbour have been shuffled following the Danish Open – stage seven on the World Match Racing Tour (WMRT).

Australia's Tovar Mirsky has moved up from second to first on the leaderboard, with New Zealand's Adam Minoprio losing his top spot and dropping to second. Peter Gilmour, from Australia, now fourth, has moved ahead of Britain's Ian Williams with Frenchman Mathieu Richard remaining third.

The new ISAF rankings came out on September 16 also with some changes. Minoprio remained on top while Mirsky leapfrogged into second place. Richard is third with Sebastian Col and Damien Lehl closing out the top five at fourth and fifth.

Ten of the top 12 skippers in the ISAF rankings will be racing in Bermuda. The leading eight are all on the World Tour.

Many of the 24 teams in the Gold Cup will be arriving on the Island for early registration on October 4 with first practice session the following day before the three-group round-robin phase of the event begins on Tuesday, October 5.

In the round-robin phase, each of the three groups will have eight teams.

Royal Bermuda Yacht Club race organisers and WMRT officials will divide the teams based on rankings and other performance factors. If all goes well with the wind and weather, the top two from each group and the top two in another 'repecharge' round-robin will move into the quarter-finals on the Friday.

On the Saturday the going gets tougher as the top four teams race in the semi-finals and the fifth through eighth place teams battle for rank in the bottom four rungs of the moneylist.

Sunday will see the petite finals first, deciding third and fourth place between the losing semi-finalists. And the grand finale will close out the week of sailing with the winner taking $50,000 and the Gold Cup Trophy. The other six skippers divide the remaining $30,000 of the $100,000 purse based on their position from third through eighth.

The Gold Cup represents stage eight of the World Match Racing Tour.

Bermuda's classic is the oldest match racing competition in the world for one-design yachts. The trophy presented to the winning team was originally given at the Tri-Centenary Regatta at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1907 by King Edward VII in commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the first permanent settlement in America.

C.Sherman Hoyt, a renowned American sailor, won the regatta and was presented with this now historic cup.