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The GBR Match Race Girls are one of the top International Women's Match Racing Teams and are determined to represent Great Britain in this exciting new Olympic sailing discipline in 2012. Having gained National and European championship titles, and rapidly risen through the ranks to lead the World Rankings, Lucy Macgregor, Annie Lush and Ally Martin are a promising prospect for the future of British Sailing.
Since learning to sail in Poole Harbour as a children, Lucy and Annie have always been a driven individuals. After a successful youth sailing career for Lucy, and gaining 'blues' in three sports at Cambridge University for Annie, they both entered a full-time Olympic campaign with Shirley Robertson for Beijing 2008. Lucy and Annie have now teamed up with Ally Martin and launched their own campaign for Gold in 2012. Catch up on the latest news below, find out more about the team, or use the menu on the right to explore this site.
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Credit: Wander Roberto
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Credit: Kim Wolf
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Sunny Palma
Thursday 4th March, 2010
We’re coming to the end of a great week of training in Palma, the sun has shone for us and despite breaking a rudder yesterday!….we’ve managed to get a load of hours on the water. For training partners this week we’ve had the joy of Nick Cherry, Ed Hill and Katie Mac’s presence and we’ve had Si Shaw coaching us working on upwind tactics. Nick has been snapping away so we’ll hope to get some pictures with you soon! One more day to go and then a weekend off before the squad come and join us next week.
Bye for now x
Number 1 in the World Rankings!
Wednesday 10th February, 2010
We’re delighted to announce that in the latest ISAF World Rankings released today we have been named “Number 1” !!
For the last two years we’ve dedicated ourselves full-time as professional athletes to the new Olympic discipline of match racing, developing a rigorous training programme and consistently achieving good results at top level events around the world. Our efforts have been rewarded as we’ve been steadily climbing the world rankings, and it’s a great feeling to have finally ended Claire Leroy’s four and a half year reign in the top spot.
We’re now looking forward to another busy season ahead, and hope to continue enjoying great competition and improving our game in the Elliott 6m — the new Olympic Class in which we hope to be representing GBR at Portland and Weymouth in 2012.
Please download the full press release for further details.
Lucy
Video from Rolex Miami OCR
Thursday 4th February, 2010
The first part of the video below features some of the action from the finals of the Women’s Match Racing at the Rolex Miami OCR. Although it chops and changes a bit, and misses the crucial final leg of the deciding match, you can see how close and exciting the one-on-one match racing is — and the potential this event has for good media coverage at the Olympics in 2012.
This second video from OffshoreRules shows us overtaking Claire Leroy in a tussle at the windward mark in one of our semi-final matches.
Silver Medal at Rolex Miami OCR
Saturday 30th January, 2010
7–10 knots greeted us today and plenty of chop as more and more spectator boats joined our course which led to some fantastic racing against Anna Tunnicliffe’s American team in the finals of the Women’s Match Racing at the Rolex Miami OCR. In this regatta however we unfortunately only managed 18 straight wins and not the magic 19 we needed to win the gold undefeated!
After the first two races we were 2–0 up and feeling good, but the conditions were very tricky with us rarely being more than two boat lengths apart. In the third race however after a great first beat we once again led round the first windward mark, but were given a (slightly debatable) penalty on our rounding. From there Tunnicliffe sailed well to stay ahead and get a point on the board. The next two races continued to be close with us winning the starts but struggling to gain any distance up or down wind. With Tunnicliffe winning the 4th race it was 2–2 and all down to the final race which was extremely close literally down to the final 20 meters to the finish line where they eventually beat us by half a boat length.
We are of course really gutted and disappointed not to have won the gold, however Annie, Ally and I have had a really fantastic week and have shown the world that we’re the team to beat. Anna and her team sailed the boat really well today and I’m told the racing between us was great to watch!
Thanks for all your support and we’ll keep you posted on our next move!
Lucy x
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