Match Racing Campaign for the Olympics in 2012
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 Kate Macgregor are a promising prospect for the future of British Sailing.
Since learning to sail in Poole Harbour as 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. In 2009 Lucy and Annie launched their own campaign for Gold in 2012, in the new discipline of Match Racing. They are now joined by Lucy's younger sister Kate, who is herself a top crew in her own right.
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National Champions!
Sunday 6th September, 2009
We’ve had a busy but good few weeks getting used to the RYA’s new Elliott 6m keelboats, the class chosen for Match Racing at the 2012 Olympics. After spending a week training alongside the Dutch team in their boats, we were excited to finally get our hands on the RYA’s newly commissioned boats over the course of the last week, before rolling straight into our National Championships this weekend — the first event for the new fleet.
Having had about 20 knots or more for all of our practice days, it was a bit of change only having 10–14 knots over the last two days… and a good break for all the bow girl’s raw hands!
Due to illness catching up with Ally, this weekend my sister Nicky joined Annie and I for the National Championships. Although it was a slight baptism of fire on Saturday morning, we were pleased to finish the day having won the double round robin, qualifying us through to the semis in 1st place.
This morning we continued our winning streak, defeating Charlotte Lawrence’s team in the semi finals 3–0 to go through to the finals. With the breeze building slightly throughout the day we had some close racing in the finals against Katie Archer’s team, and despite a few errors on our part, we were pleased to be crowned National Champions once again with a 3–1 win.
We now go straight into a Grade 2 International event, which runs from Monday through to Wednesday, giving some of the top teams from around the world their first chance to sail the Elliott 6m at Weymouth. This all stands us in good stead in preparation for Sail for Gold regatta next week, which in addition to being the showcase Olympic Classes regatta in the UK, is also the final event on the ISAF Sailing World Cup tour, where we’re obviously extra keen to do well on our home turf!
We’ll try and keep you posted,
Lucy
Millpond!
Sunday 9th August, 2009
….was the look of the racing area for most of the final day of racing for us in Middelfart today. With another postponement we finally started racing about 1.30 to continue with the quarter-final round robin however the decision was made to cut this stage at 3.00pm so they could run finals and petite finals.
Being overtaken on the finish line in 0 knots in our race today unfortunately pretty much summed up our regatta and dropped us down to a disappointing 7th overall. Its been quite a tough week with long days due to very little wind all week and because of that we haven’t always had the best racing. The race committee however have tried to deal with the conditions as best as possible and whether it was the right decision or not, they did manage to get finals in with Silke Hahlbrook’s team taking the title.
Next we’re off home for a week off and then will be getting our hands on the new Elliott 6′s at last!
For full results check out the event website.
Europeans day 3
Saturday 8th August, 2009
Another frustrating day in terms of conditions meant the race officials at the Europeans struggled again today to get a full day of racing in. With the first round robin finally completed around 2pm, the quarter final round robin was started in the shiftiest breeze yet.
Only 4 of the 10 flights were completed for this round today so tomorrow we will have to continue and are unlikely to have time for finals therefore every race counts for overall positions. We unfortunately had a frustrating day missing some crucial shifts but also had a great race against Ju;ie Bossard where after being given a penalty when it was meant to go to her, we were able to pass, off load our penalty and still win. Going into tomorrow we have 1 win and 2 losses but all to play for still with 4 races left.
Lets hope for some wind!
Solid day 2 at Euros
Friday 7th August, 2009
With much better conditions to yesterday (even though the wind was still really shifty!) we had a great day today winning all but one of our matches. The race committee were trying their hardest to finish the round robin but although there is still racing taking place, it looks like there will be around 3 flights to finish tomorrow, of which we are just racing in 1. The top4 in each group will then advance through to the quarter finals for an 8 boat round robin.
Its good to be finishing the day knowing we’re through to the next round but we’ll still be keen to beat Julie Bossard’s French team tomorrow to get one of the top spots through.
For full results check out the event website www.m-r-d.dk, or see the following roundup of today’s action (how many times can you spot us?!)
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