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
five years' time on home waters at London 2012.
G4S is proud to support Skandia Team GBR in the 'Sail for Gold
2008'
Programme
Meet some of the sailors
Finn
49er
Tornado
NeilPryde
RS:X
The Olympic Manager
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