RIO champion Giles Scott insists matching Sir Ben Ainslie’s Olympic Finn class hat-trick is beyond him as he prepares for an America’s Cup challenge.

The Portland-based ace secured GB’s fifth consecutive Finn triumph in Rio, with Iain Percy winning at Sydney in 2000 and Ainslie claiming three of his four Olympic gold medals in the class at Athens, Beijing and London.

Ainslie, the most successful sailor in Olympic history, said Scott could “dominate the class through the next Olympic cycle and further if he chooses to” after his comprehensive success in Brazil.

But Scott, 29, told Press Association Sport: “I haven’t given Tokyo 2020 any serious thought. I’m not going to sell my equipment and I will keep my boats. But I’m not going to commit to anything.

“And I’ll be 37 in 2024 – and that’s too old. The Olympics is the biggest part of what we do, but in terms of doing multiple Olympics I don’t know. There are a lot of options in the sailing world.”

Scott’s immediate task is to join the Land Rover Ben Ainslie Racing team which hopes to challenge America’s Cup defender Oracle Team USA in June 2017 on behalf of the Royal Yacht Squadron.

Ainslie beat Scott to Team GB’s one spot in the Finn at London 2012, but the two men are now set to become team-mates in one of sailing’s greatest competitions.

The British boat currently leads the way in the America’s Cup World Series standings – the heats used for the 2017 Bermuda-based event – heading into the next race weekend in Toulon on September 10-11.