Sailor Updates

Last day of the 470 World Championships in Gdynia is a wrap! The competition was very tight and full of emotions, as battle for World Championship came to the last...

Georgia and Antonia Lewin Lafrance have been on the rise for the last six years, and now find themselves on top. Over a weeklong series of 13 races, the Nova...

A new chapter begins for the fast doublehanded classes. The Champions from Paris 2024 have mostly either retired or are taking breaks for various reasons, leaving the start of the...

The final day of the 56th edition of French Olympic Week (Semaine Olympique Française de Hyères – Toulon Provence Méditerranée) saw Italy join China at the top of the medal...

A few days to go until the 56th edition of the Semaine Olympique Française de Hyères – Toulon Provence Méditerranée (France’s famous Olympic sailing week) the intense level of competition...

Valerian Lebrun, from France, has won the 2025 Open Finn European Championship in Naples, Italy, after two final races on Saturday, in a drama packed day that nearly cost him...

The showcase curtain-raiser to the new Los Angeles 2028 Olympic cycle, Mallorca’s famous 54 Trofeo Princesa Sofía Mallorca by FERGUS Hotels started in perfect sunshine and seabreezes last Monday and...

The 8th edition of the Algarve Dragon Winter Cup concluded today, and on Tuesday, the 7th Portugal Grand Prix for Olympic classes will begin. The Portuguese Vilamoura is full of...

After competing in 14 previous editions of the SB20 World Championship going back as far as 2009, British sailor John Pollard has finally fulfilled his ambition of winning the big...

Three days of exceptional sailing on Biscayne Bay, January 24-26, set the stage to make Bacardi Winter Series 2 a perfect event. Miami delivered stunning weather and challenging conditions that...

Great Britain’s Ian Williams and his Pindar by Manuport Logistics Team of Richard Sydenham, Jon Gundersen and Gerry Mitchell have been crowned champions of the inaugural Macao Match Cup, the...

Pindar by Manuport Logistics crew: Ian Williams, Jon Gundersen, Richard Sydenham, and Gerry Mitchell, triumphed against the team from New Zealand in the grand finale. As we recall, SSL Team...

Italy’s Alessandro Marega has won the Finn European Championship in Cannes after the final day brought even more drama and turnarounds. Valerian Lebrun, from France, ended up second, and also...

Emirates Team New Zealand has claimed victory in the legendary America’s Cup regatta for the fifth time. On Saturday, October 19th, the New Zealanders concluded the competition in Barcelona in...

The 2024 ILCA Master European Championships finished in Vilamoura, Portugal, after five days of competition. Days began with a long postponement on shore due to a lack of wind. It was surprising...

The 2024 52 SUPER SERIES championship went to the wire once again. After 41 races at five different regattas, contested between April and September, including two at Newport RI in...

Matt Wearn (AUS) successfully defended his Olympic title with a well-executed performance in the Men’s Dinghy Medal Race. The Australian added another gold medal to his collection in style by...

The final day of the Nacra 17 event at the Paris 2024 Olympics took place earlier today in extremely light winds, one day later than scheduled due to lack of...

A great week of sailing was wrapped up with Italy celebrating retaining their Nations Trophy at the 2024 Youth Sailing World Championships with six titles, culminating in a grand closing...

The 2024 Youth Sailing World Championships started on July 14 at the picturesque Riva del Garda, Italy. The up-and-coming sailing talents from across the globe, competing across 11 sailing classes...

Laurent Hay has emerged victorious at the 2024 Finn Masters Worlds, which concluded on June 15th. The French sailor’s triumph in this prestigious event, held in the picturesque waters off...

49er and 49erFX European Championships as well as the Nacra 17 World Championships in La Grande Motte, France concluded on Sunday. Isaura Maenhaut and Anouk Geurts (BEL) did not quite...

Day three of the 49er and 49erFX Europeans was a light wind day which saw big changes to the leaderboard in the FX fleet. Two of the top three going...

The 49er and 49erFX European Championships, along with the Nacra 17 World Championship, have kicked off in La Grande Motte in the South of France. This marks the final major...

SSL Team USA’s helmsman Chris Poole has successfully defended his Congressional Cup Match Racing title at Long Beach Yacht Club. Chris Poole and his Riptide Racing team win the 59th...

The world’s top match-racers are currently competing in the 59th Congressional Cup at Long Beach Yacht Club, and SSL Gold Cup helmsmen fill the semi-final places. Ian Williams with crew...

Very light winds curtailed the final day of racing in Palma and the 49erFX, iQFOiL Men and Women and the 470 Mixed events had their medal race cancelled and their...

Going into the final day of the Trofeo Princesa Sofía, medals and qualification is on the line. Three sailors are already assured of Palma gold though, with Great Britain’s Micky...

After the Brits started strongly on day 1 of the 2024 Etchells World Championships in Fremantle, the home nation fought back on day 2, and are now in second and...

The French duo of Erwan Fischer and Clement Pequin make history as the first French team to win a 49er World Championship title. They won the top spot on the...

The 2024 49er and 49erFX World Championships officially kicked off in the beautiful and windy Lanzarote, Canary islands yesterday. There are 126 teams from 36 nations in Lanzarote to fight...

The second day of racing in the gold fleet was the windiest day the sailors have seen at this event with 18 – 20 knots of breeze. Jordi Xammar and...

The 14-16 knot stable onshore breeze made for a more predictable race course. The German team of Simon Diesch and Anna Markfort took full advantage of the heavier breeze and...

There were 3 light wind races on day one of the 470 World Championships. The wind averaged 6 to 9 knots from the North West. Defending World Champions Keiju Okada and...

All measurements were finalised today which was followed by the practice race. Tomorrow is scheduled to start the first race of the Championships at midday. After three days of Qualifying...

Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medallist sealed the win in the ILCA 7 World Championship at Adelaide Sailing Club in emphatic style, by winning the medal race. Matt Wearn wins the...

A mark of a true champion is to come back from disappointment and defeat. SSL Team Great Britain Captain Ian Williams proved his credentials this past week, winning the 2023...

Congratulations to Sweden’s Johnie Berntsson, who has won the King Edward VII Gold Cup Match Racing Championship (SSL 1000) sailed in Bermuda, the oldest match racing trophy in the world....

Sailing has 330 athletes (165 male and 165 female) competing at the Paris 2024 Olympics, and the competition to qualify for the Games is fierce. The first qualification event was...

We’re at the halfway point of the massive 2023 Allianz Sailing World Championships (SSL 2500), taking place at The Hague in the Netherlands. All the Olympic classes are competing, and...

It’s finally happened! After sitting pretty at the top of the SSL Nations Ranking, Great Britain have been knocked from their perch. There have been some big moves over the...

It’s been a week full of movement on the SSL Global Skipper Ranking, with a host of Olympic class stars moving up the charts. SSL Ranking Update Near the top,...

The final Medal Races of the Paris 2024 Olympic Test Event took place on Sunday in Marseille. In the Nacra 17 Mixed Multihull class Gianluigi Ugolini (SSL Skipper Rank #22) and Maria Giubilei (SSL...

The Paris 2024 Olympic Test Event isn’t just a dress rehearsal for the organisers, it’s a valuable benchmark for the sailors to see how they are performing against some of...

To celebrate the Coronation of King Charles III in Great Britain, we’ve specially selected some on-board shots of SSL Team Great Britain training on Lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland. SSL Team...

The 54th Semaine Olympique Française – Toulon Provence Méditerranée is one of the most important regattas in the build-up to the Paris 2024 Olympics and saw a vast turnout across...

The March SSL Nations Ranking is out, and the big winners are the French, rising up four places up to second. SSL Nations Ranking – March 2023 Top 3 Their...

After a tricky week in Hyeres, France, the 2022 EurILCA Senior European Championships & Open European Trophy concluded on Monday, with champions crowned in the Women’s ILCA 6 class, Men’s...

49er and 49erFX Worlds wins for Team Netherlands SSL Gold Cup sailors There were huge celebrations for the Dutch in Nova Scotia, Canada at the 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17...

For this last day of World Series 1 at Trofeo Princesa Sofia in Palma, Ruggero Tita/ Caterina Banti (16 pts) majestically claimed the Nacra17 title and Medal Race. The Italian won 9 races out of 13. Their worst...

If some leaders are comfortable with their lead on Day 5 of World Cup Series 1 at Trofeo Princesa Sofía (SSL 1000), it’s now all down to tomorrow’s Medal Race, where only the top...

  Hannah Mills and Eilidh McIntyre (GBR) have won gold in the 470 Women, with Agnieszka Skrzypulec and Jolanta Ogar (POL) taking silver and Camille Lecointre and Aloise Retornaz (FRA)...