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Selected for the NZ Olympic Sailing Team

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Sailors Peter Burling and Blair Tuke (49er), Jo Aleh and Olivia Powrie (women’s 470), Andrew Murdoch (laser), Jon Paul Tobin (RS:X), Paul Snow Hansen and Jason Saunders (men’s 470), Stephanie Hazard, Jenna Hansen and Susannah Pyatt (women’s match racing) and Sara Winther (laser radial) were confirmed to the New Zealand Olympic team by New Zealand Olympic Committee Selectors, headed by Secretary General Kereyn Smith.

Yesterday marked a big day in my career. I was officially selected in the 2012 Olympic Sailing Team.

I had returned home after Perth knowing that I was waiting to find out about selection, but didn’t realize we would know this soon.

It was a great feeling sitting in the room with the other 11 sailors selected, knowing that this part of the job is done now, and I can prepare and plan for August 2012.  But I would like to say a huge thanks to everyone for sticking by me in the good times and the not so good times, and hope that there are still more good times to come!

My family – who never gave up on me! My friends and Takpuna Boating Club supporters. My team at High Performance Sport NZ – I know I have not always been to easiest athlete to deal with!

My new and old sponsors for the continued support – I have the best equipment and gear any sailor could ask for! Marko and others who have coached me this year – you have done a good job! And of course Yachting New Zealand for the opportunity to put together the campaign to go out and race!

So from now it is a bit of rest until the new year and then will be heading off to Wellington for the NZ laser Nationals. 
Merry Christmas everyone, and hope to catch up with you all soon.

 

Animal Team Rider DAVID LE BOULCH

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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 03 January 2012 11:01 )
 

Team Rider Noelle Doran Fastest in the World

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Team Surfdock and NeilPryde / JP Team Rider has recorded the fastest speed by any female windsurfer in the world this year over a 500m distance.
Noelle Doran also recorded a new Irish female record with a peak speed of 38.17 knots, or 71km an hour, over a 500m course off Dungarvan in Co Waterford.

Irish Coast Guard volunteer and windsurfer Noelle Doran in Dungarvan, Co Waterford, where she set the fastest female record in the world this year for speedsurfing over a 500m distance. Photograph: Oisín van Gelderen

She trained in Mayo’s Clew Bay for her record attempt on December 8th, but it took three round trips to Co Waterford before she and van Gelderen got the right conditions. Doran, a Kildare-born Irish Sailing Association (ISA) coach tutor and champion windsurfer, is a voluntary helm with the Irish Coast Guard’s Westport unit in Co Mayo. Fellow speedsurfer Oisín van Gelderen set a new Irish GPS record for peak speed by any sailor, travelling at 47.88 knots on the same waterway.

Weighing 58kg and standing at a height of just under 163cm (5ft 4in), she says she is “not the build of your typical speed sailor”.  Doran holds 11 national ladies windsurfing titles in three different disciplines: wave sailing, freestyle and speed sailing. She took up speed sailing when injuries forced her to retire from wave and freestyle competition in 2008.  That year, she became sixth fastest female in the International Speed World Cup.

Dungarvan is regarded as the best coastal location in Ireland for setting speeds, with a course across a 1km sandbank.
“The angle of wind to the shore and the type of board and sail one has are also factors,” she says, paying tribute to van Gelderen for coaching her.
Global positioning systems clock the speeds, which have to be witnessed.

During her attempts, wind was southwesterly, and van Gelderen urged her to be “lit like a banshee” as she took to the water. The speed she set, at an average of 36.68 knots over 500m, is faster than that recorded over the same distance this year by British speedsurfer Zara Davis, who recorded 35.31 knots.
Davis holds the world GPS ranking for fastest average speed over five 10-second runs this year, at 38.74 knots, followed by Belgian Marie-Paule Geldhof at 36.05 knots.

Doran is overall third in the world for five 10-second runs, with an average speed of 35.45 knots.

To watch the full record breaking run go to http://vimeo.com/33433565

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 03 January 2012 09:28 )
 
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