On the shores of the Mediterranean Sea not far from the Olympic waters of Marseille, the Australian Olympic Team announced five sailors for the upcoming Olympic Games
One regatta remains to secure the final USA qualification spots for the Paris 2024 Olympics
Simon Cooke, Anatole Masfen, and Oskar Masfen, sailing “Cruel Jane,” have taken out the 2024 COAST New Zealand Etchells National Championships after two days of challenging conditions off Kohimarama and Mission Bay beaches over the weekend of the 6th and 7th of April.
It was Isacc McHardie who made the first move and approached Will McKenzie to be his crew in the 49er. The rest they say, is history, as these two sailors are now heading to the Olympic Games are being on the boat together for 10 years.
Stephanie Roble (East Troy, Wis.) and Maggie Shea (Chicago, IL) have officially confirmed their ticket to the Paris 2024 Olympics in the 49erFX today after light wind prevented the running of one last medal race. Scores from day five hold, with Roble and Shea finishing 10th overall and their US competition Paris Henken and Anna Tunnicliffe Tobias finishing 9th.
Australians seized two medals and the overall trophy at the 53rd Trofeo S.A.R. Princesa Sofía Regatta on the shores of Spain after an immense performance from the team. Breiana Whitehead won the Women’s Formula Kite in dramatic fashion whilst Zoe Thomson fought back to take silver in the ILCA6 class, repeating her performance from 2023.
Two of New Zealand’s top sailors were denied a final medal tilt as the breeze disappeared on the last day at the Princess Sofia Regatta. Still, they will leave Palma encouraged by their progress as the build-up to the Olympic Games intensifies.
Today marked the halfway point of the 53rd edition of the Trofeo Princesa Sofía, and the US contingent is dialing in to the tricky conditions in Palma de Mallorca.
The 2024 Trofeo Princesa Sofia Regatta is currently underway in Palma and a team of New Zealand athletes are competing. Here is where they are placed.
The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) has granted significant additional funding to the US Olympic Sailing Team to support performance in Marseille for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
The 2024 Trofeo Princesa Sofia Regatta is currently underway in Palma and a team of New Zealand athletes are competing. Here is where they are placed.
It may be April Fool’s Day, but the weather in Palma de Mallorca was no joke. Sailors faced steep, mountainous waves and 20-30 knot winds for the opening day of the Trofeo Princesa Sofía, keeping the iQFOiL Men & Women, 49er, 49erFX, and Nacra 17 fleets from racing. The Women’s Kite, 470, and ILCA 6 & 7 fleets were able to get races off despite a challenging day.
Logan Dunning Beck is doing his best to stay positive despite the cruel and abrupt end to his selection push for the 2024 Olympic Games.
London silver medallist Olivia Price will return to the Olympic stage after being selected to the Australian Olympic Team by the Australian Olympic Committee for this year’s Paris Games, 12 years after becoming the youngest female sailor to win an Olympic medal.
For over 50 years, the best Olympic sailors have been meeting in Hyères in late April. In 2024, from 20 to 27 April, the 55th edition of the French Olympic Week will be a very special event, being the last major multi-series meeting for the world’s best sailors before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Erwan Fischer and Clément Pequin (FRA) won France’s first ever 49er world title on the final day of the 49er and 49erFX World Championships in Lanzarote. Odile van Aanholt and Annette Duetz (NED) reclaimed the 49erFX world title for The Netherlands.
It was a day of mixed and extreme emotions in the boat park this afternoon after the fleet came ashore at the end of a vital third day of Qualifying at the 49er and 49erFX World Championships in Lanzarote.
There was a time when Tom Saunders thought his Olympic dreams were slipping away, but after a hard slog and never give up attitude, Saunders can now officially call himself an Olympian
Stu McNay and Lara Dallman-Weiss secured “country qualification” on March 3 in Palma De Mallorca, Spain at the 470 World Championship, officially locking in their ticket to Marseille after winning U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Sailing on January 13.
With 126 teams from 36 nations, the 49er and 49erFX World Championships are officially underway in Lanzarote. Tricky wind conditions and volcanic landscapes set the stage for a challenging week.
Jordi Xammar and Nora Brugman (ESP) revelled in the strongest wind of the regatta to shoot to the top of the leaderboard on Day 5 of the 470 World Championship in Mallorca.
Jordi Xammar and Nora Brugman (ESP) revelled in the strongest wind of the regatta to shoot to the top of the leaderboard on Day 5 of the 470 World Championship in Mallorca.
Japan came to the 470 World Championship in Llucmajor, Mallorca, as defending champions. Lying in fifth place after three tricky, light-wind races is not at all a bad start for the 2023 World Champions Keiju Okada and Miho Yoshioka.
Through all the random gusts, lulls and big windshifts of day 2 at the 470 World Championship in S’Arenal (Llucmajor, Mallorca), the Japanese teams continue to hold their nerve as well as the overall lead.
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