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Team GBR windsurfers for 2001 Volvo Youth World Championship
Author: Royal Yachting Association
Completing the Great Britain team that will contest the 2001 Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship, top youth Mistral windsurfers Daniel Ince and Bryony Shaw will join the six selected sailors (from last month's Volvo RYA Youth National Championships at Largs) that will travel to
Crozon-Morgat on Brittany's Atlantic coast for a shot at the prestigious youth world title in July (3-10th).
In only his first year in the Volvo RYA Youth Squad, Daniel Ince, 16, (from Grafham Water SC in Cambridgeshire) won the boys selection series after beating a competitive youth IMCO fleet in rounds two and three of the UKWA (United Kingdom Windsurfing Association) tour at Llandudno and Weymouth in April and May.
Shaw, 18, (Farmoor Reservoir SC in Oxford) is a member of the RYA's elite Olympic Development Squad. She secured her place in France through performances at the Palma Olympic Classes Regatta in March and Llandudno. She was narrowly beaten last year in the selection series for Sydney by
Catherine Potter but is looking to make up for the lost opportunity.
It is three years since Great Britain won a youth world medal in windsurfing with Nick Dempsey's thrilling last leg Bronze medal win at Table Mountain Bay, Cape Town, South Africa in 1998. But with Dempsey going on to claim a place in Team GB for Sydney 2000 and winning the first two
Eurolymp events of the 2000 season, the pathway to future success from the Volvo Youth Worlds is clear and an inspirational target for youth windsurfers in Great Britain.
Considering their prospects for the championships, RYA Competition Coach Barrie Edgington said: "Bryony has already shown that she can be on a par in certain conditions with some of the best women in the world so if she continues to improve at her current rate she has every chance of doing well. Daniel on the other hand can approach this event as part of his learning curve but he is improving rapidly so a good result is certainly possible".
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