Following the RYA Selection Trials held at Rutland Sailing Club over the weekend of 17-18 January, the Selectors have recommended the teams set to represent Great Britain at the ISAF Team Racing World Championships (19-24 July).
The RYA is pleased to confirm these selections.
The ISAF Team Racing World Championships will be held at Rutland Sailing Club, with West Kirby Hawks heading into the event as defending champions, fielding the same team that won the 2011 title in Schull, Ireland.
Ten nations have so far committed to compete at the quadrennial regatta, with another seven expected ahead of the 31 May deadline which would mean that the 2015 edition would welcome the highest ever international participation at the event.
OPEN TEAMS:
GBR 1: West Kirby Hawks
Dom Johnson and Debs Steele, Ben Field and Tom Foster, Andy Cornah and Graeme (Hamish) Walker
GBR 2: Royal Forth Hoosiers
Mark Powell and Isobel Walker, Robert Friend and George Clark, Tim Saxton and Holly Scott
First Reserves: Bristol University
James Grant and James Duncalfe, Cameron Douglas and Sarah Lombard, Philip Sparks and Henry Forward.
Second Reserves: Cambridge University
Arthur Henderson and Thomas Maxwell, Tim Gratton and Hannah Bibby, Josh Flack and Francine Counsell.
YOUTH TEAMS:
GBR 3: Magdalen College School
Owen Hallett and Adam Rathnell, Tom Elder and Tom Daggitt, Gabriel Ing and James Tomlinson.
GBR 4: Sevenoaks School
George Haynes and James Rudd-Jones, Alice Kidd and Remi Pfister, Hamish Oliver and Isabella Gordon.
Teams from Argentina, Australia, Bermuda, Czech Republic, Great Britain, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa and the USA will compete on Rutland Water, Great Britain from 20-24 July 2015.
Organized by Rutland Sailing Club in conjunction with the International Sailing Federation, the regatta will be the tenth edition of the ISAF Team Racing Worlds.
Ahead of the 2015 ISAF Team Racing Worlds, invited emerging nations who enter will be offered specialist training from 13-17 July. From then on it's down to business with five racing days scheduled ahead of the crowning of the 2015 World Champions on 24 July.
Racing in Firefly type dinghies supplied by the Organizing Authority, the 2015 ISAF Team Racing Worlds will see up to 36 teams competing across Open and Youth Divisions.
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Event Website -
http://www.rutlandteamracing.org.uk/
About ISAF Team Racing Worlds
Great Britain were the first team to lift the ISAF Team Racing Worlds in West Kirby, Great Britain in 1995. Ireland came in second with Australia completing the podium.
From 2003 to 2009 USA dominated the event winning four in a row before the British team broke the trend at the most recent edition held in Schull, Ireland from 27 August - 4 September 2011.
In 2005 an Under 21 competition was introduced in Gandia, Spain and was won by Great Britain who also picked up gold in 2011 in the Under 19 category.