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Jon Emmett »
Miami Olympic Classes regatta
Posted on 11:24pm Saturday 4th February 2012
Lijia Xu has just returned from her second World Cup victory in Miami in the Laser Radial class (to add to her win at the first event in Melbourne) to make it two out of two in the series. Xu who is coached by Jon Emmett from Weir Wood Sailing Club had a difficult World Championship in Perth last year being caught over the line twice and also disqualified for a rule infringement on the first day when she tacked in too late at the windward mark. However she still did enough to qualify herself for a spot at this year’s Olympics in the Women’s single handed class.
Lucy Macgregor »
OLYMPIC TEAM: Match Race Girls' 2011 review
Posted on 5:24pm Wednesday 28th December 2011
2011 has been another really enjoyably year for The Match Race Girls and three of us are delighted to have finished it another successful one having just touched down in Heathrow with Silver medals won at the ISAF World Championships in Perth, Australia.
Luke Patience and Stuart Bithell »
Silver at the World Championships
Posted on 12:11pm Thursday 22nd December 2011
Myself and Luke are extremely pleased to have come away from the 2011 470 world championships with a silver medal.
Jon Emmett »
ISAF World Sailing Championships Perth
Posted on 10:52pm Thursday 15th December 2011
Well I have just returned from coaching at the ISAF World Sailing Championships at Perth, Australia, and it was certainly an interesting regatta and overall a very positive one with so many learning points to take forward to 2012. From here the only way is up.
Lucy Macgregor »
OLYMPIC TEAM Make World Championship semi finals
Posted on 1:13pm Wednesday 14th December 2011
Smiles all round today as we beat the Dutch team 3-1 to win our quarter final and go through to the semis where we'll race Leroy's French team.
Lucy Macgregor »
OLYMPIC TEAM: And so it continues...
Posted on 12:42pm Monday 12th December 2011
Well we're still going with the repechage, just one more day left so the end is in sight now! Yes the event is starting to go on a bit now however don't get me wrong, we are still looking forward to racing tomorrow especially after another good day today having won 3 out of 4 races in really tricky conditions. On our boat Kate was the winner today as we had to do 4 laps in most of our races with legs of only 1 minute sometimes.....for those not quite with me, that's a lot of working getting the spinnaker up and down and still staying ahead of the other boat! It was pretty crazy conditions and tomorrow could be similar but hopefully we can continue to lead this round and go through into the quarters on Wednesday.
Lucy Macgregor »
OLYMPIC TEAM: Well that was a shame!
Posted on 2:03pm Friday 9th December 2011
Unfortunately our 4 wins out of 5 races today was not quite enough to put us through to the gold fleet. We ended up on the same points as Leroy (FRA) and Mulder (NED) however although we beat Leroy in the final race, the tie break did not go our way so we ended up 3rd in our group. Repechage starts tomorrow and will probably go on for the next three days, so time to start it all again! It will be another round robin of 16 teams with the top 4 going through to the quarter finals at the end of it.
Lucy Macgregor »
OLYMPIC TEAM: Big day tomorrow!
Posted on 1:42pm Thursday 8th December 2011
Well the weather has improved in Perth at the World Championships today and the Race Committee were able to get in the final 11 flights of group A's round robin with USA and RUS securing their places in the gold fleet (and therefore quarter finals) and also securing their Nation Spots for the Olympics next year. Tomorrow it will be our turn in group B to finish our round robin and with 5 races left for us to complete, it will be an important day. The goal is to finish in the top two in our group so that we secure our own spot in the quarter final however it will not be easy so fingers crossed!
Lucy Macgregor »
Worlds start today
Posted on 1:11am Saturday 3rd December 2011
The time has come, today is the start of the 2011 World Championships here in Perth and we're ready to try and defend our title!
Lucy Macgregor »
OLYMPIC HOPEFULL: Off to Perth
Posted on 3:25pm Monday 21st November 2011
Within The space of just a few days we are going to be experiencing completely different climates this week! This weekend at Queen Mary Reservoir we had a disappointing weekend only getting to race 4 races in the UK Open National Finals due to no wind and thick fog yesterday but tomorrow morning we fly to Perth and will step off the plane in 37 degrees centigrade and 20 knots of wind, sometimes I think we lead a very strange life!
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