Month: August 2021

Racing

Australia crowned ROCKWOOL Denmark Sail Grand Prix champions and celebrate successive Season 2 event wins

August 21, 2021

Cover photo: Australia SailGP Team spray champagne as they celebrate their win in the final race on Race Day 2 at Aarhus, Denmark. Photo and copyright by Ian Roman for SailGP. … Aarhus, Denmark – 8/21/2021 – by SailGP – Australia has extended its lead at the top of the SailGP Season Championship with victory in the ROCKWOOL Denmark Sail Grand Prix. Having won the previous event in Great Britain, Tom Slingsby’s team headed to Aarhus leading the overall rankings, and beating Japan and the Brits in the winner-takes-all Final saw the Aussies move two points clear of Ben Ainslie’s […]

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Danish team celebrate first win in front of home crowd in Aarhus

August 20, 2021

Cover photo: Nicolai Sehested led the Denmark SailGP Team presented by ROCKWOOL to an incredible Race 1 finish, putting to bed any doubts about his drive to win at SailGP. Aarhus, Denmark – 8/20/2021 – by SailGP – The City of Smiles, Aarhus, now has a little more to be happy about as the hometown crowd was greeted with a first-ever win by the home team. Nicolai Sehested led the Denmark SailGP Team presented by ROCKWOOL to an incredible Race 1 finish, putting to bed any doubts about his drive to win at SailGP. The inaugural ROCKWOOL Denmark Sail Grand […]

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Spain ruled out of ROCKWOOL Denmark Sail Grand Prix Race Day 1 after pre-race capsize

August 20, 2021

Cover photo by SailGP Aarhus, Denmark – 8/20/2021 – By SailGP – Just an hour before racing was due to begin in Aarhus, Spain’s F50 Victoria keeled over and sustained too much damage to its foil to take part in Friday’s three fleet races. All athletes have been accounted for and are safe. The Spanish, who sit sixth in the Championship heading into the fourth event of Season 2, were last time out shown the first ever Black Flag in SailGP, having had a risky starting maneuver protested by both the United States and Denmark in Plymouth. Ahead of the […]

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Great Britain SailGP Team breaks F50 speed record on Ben Ainslie’s return in Denmark

August 18, 2021

Aarhus, Denmark – 8/18/2021 – By SailGP – Great Britain SailGP Team CEO and driver Sir Ben Ainslie returned to the wheel of the British F50 today as the team began training ahead of the Rockwool, Denmark Sail Grand Prix in Aarhus (August 20-21). It was an eventful return to action for Ainslie, who had missed the previous two SailGP events to welcome the arrival of his baby son Fox, as he and the British crew broke the SailGP speed record with a top speed of 98.3 km/h (61.1mph/53.1 knots) in strong breeze on the Aarhus waters. After winning the […]

Olympics 2020

Evening Report: 470 Gold Medals for Australia and Great Britain

August 4, 2021

Cover photo  Men’s Two Person Dinghy – 470 Medals: Mat Belcher and Will Ryan (AUS) won gold in the 470 Men, with Anton Dahlberg and Fredrik Bergstrom (SWE) taking silver and Jordi Xammar and Nico Rodriguez (ESP) bronze. Photo © Sailing Energy / World Sailing ….. Enoshima, Japan – 8/4/2021 – Andy Rice, World Sailing – All photos © Sailing Energy / World Sailing – The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Sailing Competition concluded with two Medal Races in the 470 Men and 470 Women. With the 470 becoming a Mixed Event for Paris 2024, today was the last time that these partnerships would […]

Olympics 2020

McNay/Hughes of U.S. team finished 9th overall

August 4, 2021

Cover photo: Stu McNay (Providence, RI) and Dave Hughes (Miami, Fla.) August 4, 2021, photo © Sailing Energy / World Sailing Enoshima, Japan – August 4, 2021 – By U.S. Sailing – Team USA’s Stu McNay (Providence, R.I.) and Dave Hughes (Miami, Fla.) competed in the Men’s 470 medal race on Wednesday, the final day of sailing events at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. McNay and Hughes finished 4th in the double-points medal race, which lifted them to 9th overall. “Prior to the start, we did our homework with the current readings, but we felt like it would be evolving […]

Olympics 2020

Mcnay/Hughes head Into 470 Medal Race; Gibbs/Weis 3rd In Nacra 17 Medal Race, 9th overall

August 3, 2021

Cover photo: Riley Gibbs (Long Beach, Calif.) and Anna Weis (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) sail the Nacra 17 Medal Race at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, August 3, 2021, © Sailing Energy / World Sailing ….. Enoshima, Japan – By U.S. Sailining – Four medal races and the end of 470 qualifying action combined to create a memorable tenth day of sailing at Tokyo 2020, which saw the US Sailing Team compete in the Nacra 17 medal race and in both 470 fleets. In the Nacra 17, Riley Gibbs (Long Beach, Calif.) and Anna Weis (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) submitted a strong […]

Olympics 2020

Tokyo 2020 – Day 10 – What a day, three medals and breathe

August 3, 2021

Cover photo: © Sailing Energy / World Sailing ….. Enoshima, Japan – August 3, 2021 – By Richard Aspland, British Sailing Team – All photos © Sailing Energy / World Sailing Days like this simply don’t happen all the time. Yes, there were three Olympic medals, but the way in which they were won was just extraordinary. Where do you even start? Well, the Finn had its last ever Olympic race as the class won’t feature at Paris 2024, but what a way to finish. Defending champion Giles Scott had assured himself of a medal going into the final race, […]

Olympics 2020

Evening Report: Gold Medals for Italy & Brazil and two for Great Britain at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Sailing Competition

August 3, 2021

Cover photo: Martine Grael and Kahena Kunze of Brazil have won gold in the 49erFX. Photo © Sailing Energy / World Sailing ….. Enoshima, Japan – 8/3/2021 – Andy Rice, World Sailing – All photos © Sailing Energy / World Sailing – It was a sensational day of racing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Sailing Competition on the day that IOC President Thomas Bach experienced the sport for himself. Brazil repeated Rio gold in the Women’s Skiff – 49erFX, Italy claimed Mixed Multihull – Nacra 17 gold, and Great Britain won gold medals in the Men’s Skiff – 49er and Men’s Heavyweight […]

Olympics 2020

Gibbs and Weis of U.S. set for Nacra 17 Medal race

August 2, 2021

Cover photo: Riley Gibbs (Long Beach, Calif.) and Anna Weis (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) Photo © Sailing Energy / World Sailing ….. Enoshima, Japan – 8/2/2021 – U.S. Sailing – A lack of wind forced the postponement of racing in all active sailing events on Monday at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. After a lengthy onshore delay, the Race Committee elected to push Monday’s scheduled races to Tuesday, including the 49er and 49erFX skiff medal races that had been planned for today. “[The latest weather information] is too uncertain to rely on and leaves too little time for launching and preparing […]