• 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 have been selected to represent Great Britain at the 2012 Olympic Games in this exciting new sailing discipline. Having gained National, European and World 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. In 2010 they were joined by Lucy's younger sister Kate, who is herself a top crew in her own right having won a number of championship titles and Gold at the 2007 Olympic Youth Festival in Australia.

    Catch up on the latest news below, find out more about the team, or use the menu on the right to explore this site.

  • Thanks all! We had a couple of drinks to celebrate and are now back home sweet home in Poole....it is very, very...

Skandia Team GBR Awards Dinner

Monday 25th October, 2010

Collecting our performance award (the largest cheque of the evening!) for silver at the Europeans & Gold at the Worlds this year.

A big thank you to everyone who’s supported us this year, especially our sponsors and of course Skandia for their commitment to the whole of Team GBR, the success of which was clearly demonstrated at the awards evening with many Team GBR medals.

Overall we’ve had a good year, with a few up and downs, but it was brilliant to end on such a high (and get in plenty of dancing and celebrating just after this shot was taken!).  Now it’s back to sailing and racing…. We’ve just finished the UK Match Race Nationals in Queen Mary (3rd) and have flown overnight to Korea for the Busan Women’s Match Cup.  Hopefully after some good sleep tonight and training tomorrow we’ll be ready to start racing on Wednesday… watch this space!

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Back to Weymouth

Monday 11th October, 2010

It has been a busy year for us with over 10 international events and a lot of hours on the water training. The past few weeks have been a great end to main part of the season, winning the Worlds and then the awesome experience of competing in Bermuda Gold Cup. Huge thanks to evryone for their support and messages over the whole year and particularly the last few weeks, especially to Skandia, Morris Lane, Jenkins Marine, The Livery, Royal Thames, Parkstone and Poole Yacht Clubs. Now though we are back to Weymouth to review our season and plan for the winter! Annie, Kate and I have two more events before Christmas which we are looking forward to and a few weeks training planned before 2011 arrives (can’t believe it is October already!). The good news is, despite the freezing cold north-easterly, the sun is out and its blowing a good 20-25 knots, fun and games.

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Waiting for wind on day 3

Thursday 7th October, 2010

It’s day 3 of the Argo Group Gold Cup and the final day of the round robin stages with one race in each group left. Yesterday was a slightly frustrating day for us where we did a lot of the hard work well but lost two races on execution errors. With two great starts and one which was shaping up to be another good one..until we were over the line…we are happy with many areas of our racing but need to iron out the mistakes where possible. With everyone being close on results in our group there is still a slim chance that a win today would get us through to the repechage. We need a few more races between the others to go our way so fingers crossed because on this race course, anything can happen! The event website will continue to run the blog throughout the day to keep you up to date.

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Argo Group Gold Cup — Day 1 video

Wednesday 6th October, 2010

There is another press release and video report from the Gold Cup in Bermuda.

The Match Race Girls are scheduled to have four more matches today, which should start around 1pm BST. Real-time updates and live video feed at wmrt.com

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