Olympic Classes

World Sailing
World Sailing Fleet Rankings for May 2022

Top World Sailing Ranked and leading GBR sailors as of 4 May 2022 with two major Olympic Classes regattas now completed – Palma and Hyeres

SOF Hyères – Medal Race Day Results

The British team qualified for the Medal races in the Nacra17, Radial, Laser, 470 and both Kite events on Saturday

2022 SOF Hyeres - John Gimson and Anna Burnet
SOF de Hyères – Day 5 – Team GBR make six finals

Final day of qualification for the 10 boat cutoff for (most) medal race fleets and Team GBR will start in five medal races events

SOF Hyeres -Nacra17 ITA Tita and Banti
SOF de Hyères – Day 4 Gold fleet qualification

Penultimate day of qualification and time is running out to reach the all important 10 boat cutoff for (most) medal race fleets

Princess Sofia 49erFX - GBR BLACK and TIDEY_
SOF de Hyères – Double DSQ for British 49erFX pair

British 49erFX pair Freya Black and Saskia Tidey failed to make the gold fleet following a double disqualification on Wednesday.

SOV Hyeres D3 - 49er Drone_
SOF de Hyères – Day 3 and the first fleet splits

After Wednesday’s racing in Hyeres the fleets split into gold and silver for the final push to make Saturday’s medal race fleets. And to add to the stress levels weather conditions eased off causing some big scores for some big names

2022 SOF Heyers - Wrigley and McIntyre
Semaine Olympique Française de Hyères – Day 2

Semaine Olympique Française de Hyères and the Nacra 17 event has now completed five races and Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti ITA, took back their lead from Britain’s John Gimson and Anna Burnet

2022 SOV Hyeres - Nacra 17
Semaine Olympique Française de Hyères – Day 1

The Semaine Olympique Française de Hyères opened to racing on Monday with fleets facing a 15-20 knots breez building with gusts between 25-30 on some courses.

SOF Hyeres national Flags
SOF Hyeres – British Sailing Team look to continue flying start

53rd Semaine Olympique Française de Hyères 23 to 30 April 2022. British sailing team members will be looking to continue their flying start to the season at the recent world cup Trofeo Sofia Olympic classes regatta in Mallorca

SOF Hyeres
Olympic Regatta – Semaine Olympique Française de Hyères

Following the Trofeo Princess Sofia Regatta, the 53rd Semaine Olympique Française de Hyères will take place from 23 to 30 April.

Olympic Flame Weymouth 2012
GBR are Winners – but what happened to the Olympic Legacy?

The wonderful spectacle that is the Princess Sophie Regatta, newly returned to World Sailing’s revamped world cup series, showed just how to run a top-class international dinghy regatta, something the RYA should take note of

Eya Guezguez 49erFX sailor
Olympic 49erFX sailor dies in training accident

Tunisian Olympic sailor Eya Guezguez has died aged 17 after a training accident in waters off the capital Tunis on Sunday