WEYMOUTH windsurfer Bryony Shaw will be aiming for a Miami World Cup hat-trick this week.

Biscayne Bay will play host to the first World Cup regatta of the Olympic and Paralympic year this week, with Rio-bound Shaw aiming for a third consecutive victory at the Florida venue.

The world number one dominated the RS:X women’s fleet at the last year’s edition of the event to win with a day to spare and reclaim her 2014 crown.

And with recent victories at the Sailing World Cup Final in Abu Dhabi and on Rio’s 2016 waters at the Copa Brasil last month, Shaw’s confidence will be high as she attempts to tame the 39-sailor women’s RS:X fleet over six days of competition.

Shaw is one of 41 British Sailing Team athletes who’ll be in action in seven Olympic and two Paralympic classes in Miami.

She’s joined in the RS:X women’s fleet by Izzy Hamilton, Launceston’s Sills twins Imogen and Saskia, and recent Youth World Sailing Championship silver medallist Emma Wilson, while Weymouth’s double Olympic medallist Nick Dempsey will feature in the men’s windsurfing fleet along with Kieran Martin and Tom Squires.

With a mid-February World Championship looming in Clearwater on Florida’s west coast, Britain’s 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 crews will be hoping for a strong World Cup showing amid their final preparations.

Ben Saxton and Nicola Groves secured a silver medal in the Nacra 17 at last year’s Miami World Cup and will be hoping for a repeat podium finish, with fellow Podium squad sailors John Gimson and Hannah Diamond also looking to impress.

Podium Potential Nacra teams Tom Phipps and Nikki Boniface and Rupert White and Kirstie Urwin will also be in action.

The 49er duo of John Pink and Stuart Bithell head into the Miami World Cup off the back of their first regatta victory together at Rio’s Copa Brasil last month, while they and Dylan Fletcher and Alain Sign will be hoping to upgrade into podium positions from their respective fifth and fourth place finishes on the same waters in 2015.

Weymouth-based Charlotte Dobson and Sophie Ainsworth and Sophie Weguelin and Anna Burnet will fly the flag in the 49erFX, with Portland-based Ali Young ready to race in the Laser Radial event and Lorenzo Chiavarini and Elliot Hanson contesting the men’s Laser.

British sailors will aim to impress in both the featured Paralympic classes, with London 2012 gold medallist Helena Lucas looking for a first Miami gold, and Sonar trio John Robertson, Hannah Stodel and Steve Thomas hoping to continue the run of form which saw them crowned World Champions in Melbourne last month.