The Team
Meet the team that have helped make Great Britain the world’s top Olympic sailing nation
Skandia Team GBR is the team from which the sailors who will join Team GB and represent Great Britain at the Olympics and Paralympics are selected.
This is just the tip of the iceberg, the team that G4S supports is a great deal more than this:
Three squads
Skandia Team GBR consists of three squads – the ‘Performance Squad’ currently made up of 44 sailors, and the ‘Development’ and ‘Transitional’ squads, which are jointly made up of 45 sailors.
Olympic classes
The athletes in the team sail in one of the eleven Olympic class boats: Finn; Laser Radial; Laser; 470 (men and women); 49er; Star; Yngling; Tornado; NeilPryde RS:X (men’s and women’s windsurfers) and three Paralympic classes: the Sonar, 2.4mR and UD18.
Olympic selection
Each year the team compete in all major Olympic class regattas as well as their individual major class championships. It is the results they achieve from these events that decide which squad the sailors are in and who goes on to join Team GB. Between September 2007 and April 2008 a squad of 18 Olympic and 6 Paralympic sailors will be selected to compete at the 2008 Beijing Games.
All other Skandia Team GBR members not selected will continue to train and develop ahead of the next four year training programme. Like G4S, long-term goal setting is a fundamental characteristic of the team and the sailors. Many of the current team have their sights firmly set on a medal winning performance in three years' time on home waters at London 2012.
