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GBR takes top place at Volvo Youth Championship
21 Jul 2008
‘To come out here and win two gold medals, a bronze medal, win the Volvo Trophy and to also finish topping the medal table, we’ve got to be pleased with that,’ said Simon Wergen, RYA Youth Racing Manager. ‘We have really sailed as a team here and when people have needed to post results to score us points in the Volvo Trophy standings, they went out and did it.’
Helping Britain to win the Volvo trophy was the Girl’s 29er team of Frances Peters and Claire Lasko who discarded a 4th and a 3rd in their series to finish 23pts clear of their nearest rivals. ‘We are the most pleased about this win than any other competition and winning the Volvo Trophy for the GBR Team is a bonus,’ said Ms Peters.
In other classes, James Peters and Edward Fitzgerald discarded two 10th places to win the 29er by 32pts, James Ellis and Andrew Glover got bronze on the multihull class, Stuart Godwin was 6th in the Laser, Isobel Hamilton was 6th in the RSX girls, Chloe Martin was 13th in the Laser Radial, Jacob Brubert was 13th in the RSX boys.
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