A couch potato existence is paying big dividends for the brother and sister combination fighting to secure a ticket to the Olympics next year in the Nacra 17 class.
Day one of the 2019 Hyundai 2019 Hyundai 49er, 49erFX, and Nacra 17 World Championships was a waiting game for athletes, coaches and fans alike with wild winds welcoming them at Auckland’s Royal Akarana Yacht Club.
As an Olympic gold and silver medallist, a world champion and an America’s Cup skipper Nathan Outteridge is currently one of the highest profile Australian sailors.
The Sail Melbourne – Summer of Sailing 2020 count-down is on with only just over three weeks to go to the start of an exciting series of world-class sailing in Australia this summer.
Reigning Men’s 470 World Champions Mat Belcher and Will Ryan and back-to-back Laser European Champion Matt Wearn have today been announced as the first athletes selected to the Tokyo 2020 Australian Olympic Team.
“It is the nature of the habit, a winning spirit, and the will to win.†This is how the inspirational Australian Sailing Team (AST) coach of the Men’s 470, Victor Kovalenko distilled the victory of his champions - Mat Belcher and Will Ryan – after their latest win in Enoshima.
Punishing conditions prevented all bar one of the Australian Sailing Team from competing in the Hempel World Cup in Enoshima, Japan yesterday. The only athlete who did manage to get on the water was big man Jake Lilley in the Finn.
The Answering Pennant may have hoisted this morning at Enoshima Harbour on Day One of the first Sailing World Cup to a bare flutter, but capricious conditions ultimately proved no barrier to the Australian Sailing Team (AST) with strong performances across the board.
Australian Sailing is thrilled to announce that Hamilton Island will be continuing their major partnership with Australian Sailing and the Australian Sailing Team.
Australians Mat Belcher and Will Ryan won Gold in the Men’s 470 and Tom Burton Silver in the Laser at the Ready Steady Tokyo Test event in Japan today. With no breeze on the final day, the final day’s medal races were cancelled and the outcomes thus pre-determined.Â
Day Five of the Ready Steady Tokyo Olympic test event delivered highs and lows in relatively light southerly conditions, with improvements along the way for the Australian Sailing Team as a whole.Â
With nine Australian sailors inside the top 10 of their classes, and four more within striking distance, it is a good platform to set the Australian Sailing Team up for the biggest game on the planet - the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
The Australian Sailing Team’s slow and steady hunt towards the podium was evident on day three of the Ready Steady Tokyo Olympic Test Event in Enoshima, Japan.
A sailor’s destiny may sometimes feel to be in the lap of the gods, but it’s what you do with what you are dealt that sorts the pedestrians from the Olympians as was demonstrated on Day Two of the Ready Steady Tokyo regatta in Enoshima, Japan.
The Olympic showdown has begun. Fourteen of Australia’s finest sailors in eight classes today commenced the battle for domination of the waterways in Enoshima, Japan, on the site of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
For the first time in sailing's Olympic history, a Mixed Two Person Offshore Keelboat event will be on the programme at the Paris 2024 Olympic Sailing Competition.