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Sailing - 01. February 2011.

GBR sailors dominant on final day in Miami



Britain's sailors wrapped up their Miami World Cup regatta in style on Saturday (29 January), adding 12 medals in the Olympic classes to the two already won by the Paralympic classes on Friday.

GBR sailors dominant on final day in Miami January 2011

Richard Langdon//Skandia Team GBR




The total Skandia Team GBR haul at the end of the Rolex Miami OCR stands at four gold, five silver, and five bronze medals across nine of the 12 events they contested, with GBR sailors claiming a clean sweep of the podium spots in both the Finn and 49er classes.

There was medal success also in the women's 470 event, where Penny Clark and Katrina Hughes took silver to claim their first podium spot together - and 21-year-old Hughes's first at a senior event.

The duo missed out on gold by just one point to the French team of Ingrid Petitjean and Nadege Douroux.

"It's certainly been our goal this year to make our way onto the podium," explained Clark.

"It's been knocking on the door for a few regattas now and to finally put a really good series together and then convert it in the medal race means a lot to us."

2010 was a difficult season for the pair with illness to Clark and injury to Hughes disrupting the key winter training period, so Hughes is pleased that their preparations towards Games selection are back on track.

"It was quite hard last year - expecting things and having not put been able to put the training in place made it quite hard to put it all into practice.

"But we've had a good few months under our belt now, we're feeling good and looking forward to a few more months of training before the European season and the key events this summer kick in."

Skandia Team GBR took silver in the women's RS:X windsurfing event.  Bryony Shaw finished fourth in the medal race to narrow the gap on Spanish gold medallist Marina Alabau.

Lucy Macgregor, Mary Rook and Kate Macgregor finished fourth in the women's match racing event, losing 2-1 to USA's Sally Barkow.

Paralympians John Robertson, Hannah Stodel and Steve Thomas took gold in the Sonar class ion Friday, with bronze going to Alexandra Rickham and Niki Birrell in the SKUD event.

"It's been a fantastic start to 2011, particularly bearing in mind that although we sent a strong team, we didn't field a full team in all event," said RYA Olympic Manager Stephen Park.

"It's pleasing to see that in this year where we start to look at selection trials for the Games, that lots of sailors are stepping up, are competing strongly and are seeing the fruits of their winters' training.

"It's great to see all of our Finn guys doing well again, where we were clearly well ahead of the rest of the fleet this week.  A great win for Giles, and good to see Ben up there again but I'm also really pleased for Andrew who's shown he can't be discounted."

Park continued: "I'm really pleased for Penny and Kat as well.  They came so close to winning the regatta, and when you consider only 12 months ago they were at this event and due to Penny's illness they struggled to complete all the races, it's good to see them back in the game.  The 470 fleet in Miami did have some of the top names missing, but even so, it's a fantastic way to get some momentum going for 2011."


Skandia Team GBR medallists at the 2011 Rolex Miami OCR
Gold

John Robertson-Hannah Stodel-Steve Thomas (Sonar)
John Pink-Rick Peacock (49er)
Nic Asher-Elliot Willis (470 Men)
Giles Scott (Finn)

Silver
Penny Clark-Katrina Hughes (470 Women)
Ben Ainslie (Finn)
Paul Brotherton-Mark Asquith (49er)
Bryony Shaw (RS:X Women)
Nick Dempsey (RS:X Men)

Bronze
Alexandra Rickham-Niki Birrell (SKUD)
Paul Goodison (Laser)
Luke Patience-Stuart Bithell (470 Men)
Andrew Mills (Finn)
Dave Evans-Ed Powys (49er)


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