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.
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4th at the Nations Cup
Sunday 18th September, 2011
After our day off on Friday, having qualified directly to the semis by finishing third in the round robin, the last two days have seen some pretty epic wind and waves at the Nations Cup in Sheboygan.
Yesterday we lost our semi against Laurie Jury (NZL) who went on to win the event. We raced for third today against Henrique Haddad (BRA), though unfortunately despite winning both starts our lack of 60 something kilos meant we couldn’t hold off the Brazilian boys upwind and lost the petit finals 2–0 to finish 4th.
The video below shows just how brutal the conditions were today. Unfortunately it only highlights the finals matches — our petit final matches were interleaved with the finals — but you can see how exciting the match racing is when the breeze is up, especially in the Women’s Elliott 6m which we usually sail and will be the boat used at at the Olympics next year.
We’ve had great racing against the guys in the Open division this week, and some very close matches… we’re bruised and battered, but it’s been a lot of fun!
Mad dash to the airport now to get flight back to London… stay tuned as we have an exciting week in store!
Lucy x
Through to the semis at Nations Cup
Thursday 15th September, 2011
Today we finished the round robin in the Open division at the ISAF Nations Cup with a win against Peter Wickwire (CAN) and a loss to #2 seed Laurie Jury (NZL).
Tied on a 6–2 score with Jury, we qualify directly for the semi finals. Tomorrow the 4th to 7th placed teams will sail a round robin to determine the 4th semi-finalist, and then there are knockouts for the lower places.
So we have a day off tomorrow, and will resume with the Semis on Saturday… follow the action at matchracingresults.com
Video round-up of today’s action below.
5–1 start to the Nations Cup
Wednesday 14th September, 2011
A great day’s racing on the first day of the ISAF Nations Cup Grand Final, where we’re the only women sailing in the Open Division up against the all male teams.
Today we won 5 matches and had only one loss against the #1 seed Mads Ebler (DEN) in some pretty close battles as you can see in the video round-up below!
The round robin concludes tomorrow, starting around 3pm BST. Live results and updates at matchracingresults.com or follow @NationsCup2011.
A win in Chicago
Monday 12th September, 2011
Who knew the ‘Windy City’ Chicago would give us such an awesome two days racing?!
Today we finished the two day Grade 3 event here in Chicago organised by the very impressively run Chicago Match Race Center. The racing was in Tom 28 boats so we persuaded Maurice to leave his rib on the dock for a couple of days and come and join us racing and we also managed to recruit Morgan Kinney (a local) to join Annie, Kate and I. We had fantastic conditions both days and some great racing against a mixture of American and other foreign teams. The boats were great fun and a good change from Elliotts and as the racing went on we improved massively to end the regatta with a 2–0 win over Brad Funk’s team in the finals!
Tomorrow we leave to big City to go back to the quiet town of Sheboygan ready for the ISAF Nations Cup Grand Final starting on Wednesday. We received a last minute invite to the Open division so we will be racing against the guys again, this time in the Sonars. We’ll be a tad light and short staffed with just the three of us so tomorrow’s practice session will be an important one I feel!
Thanks to Annie, Kate and especially Maurice and Morgan for working their socks off the last couple of days!
We’ll keep you updated on the Nations Cup — results etc on MatchRacingResults.com
Lucy x
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