Royal Hong Kong Yacht Membership has chosen its first sailors from a provisional pool of 12 to hitch RHKYC Team Agiplast, the Membership’s problem for the Youth America’s Cup 2020-2021.
Left to proper: Maria Cantero, Nicolai Jacobsen, Calum Gregor and Jackie Truhol
The primary 5 chosen sailors are Calum Gregor (21), Nicolai Jacobsen (17), Maria Cantero (22), Jackie Truhol (21) and Aymeric Gillard (23). Sailors have to be over 18 by November 1, 2020, and underneath 25 by March 12, 2021.
The unique 12 candidates have been interviewed over the web in late March and questioned about their crusing expertise and their understanding of foiling boats, with 9 chosen to progress to the bodily evaluation together with pull-ups, bench presses, shoulder presses, physique weight squats and velocity trials on a Concept2 rowing machine.
The seven Hong Kong-based candidates undertook the bodily evaluation over the Easter weekend involving numerous workouts, and the 2 abroad candidates additionally carried out the identical workouts of their places when restrictions allowed.
RHKYC Team Agiplast intends to have a everlasting crew of two male and two feminine sailors, with an prolonged six-strong crew that includes one other male sailor and feminine sailor. The allocation shall be reviewed in September, giving Head Coach Chris Rashley time to contemplate the sailors’ efficiency in health and group constructing between from time to time.
Youth America’s Cup: Chris Rashley To Coach RHKYC Team Agiplast
Gregor is a well-known youth sailor in Hong Kong and has competed in over 30 worldwide regattas and has foiling expertise. Lately, the Hong Kong-born sailor was U-17 world champion and third Total on the 420 Class World Championships in 2015, sixth total on the 29er Class World Championships in 2018 and fifth total eventually 12 months’s Waszp class European Championships. Gregor was awarded the RHKYC’s Tom Larmour Award for Younger Sailor of the Yr in 2013 and the RHKYC Sharks Finest Efficiency Award in 2014 and 2015.
Jacobsen was the Waszp European Champion 2018 and final 12 months got here second in Foiling Week and third U-21 and ninth total on the Worldwide Waszp Video games. He’s at present ranked ninth on the Waszp SSL rating.
Cantero, who has just lately been teaching RHKYC’s Laser 4.7 and Radial youth sailors, has competed in over 20 worldwide occasions in 29ers, 29erXXs and 49er FXs, and was a member of Spain’s 49erFX pre-Olympic group for Rio 2016. She gained bronze on the 49erFX Youth Worlds in 2013 (skipper), was seventh on the 49er FX Junior Worlds in 2014 (skipper) and fifth feminine on the 29er Worlds in 2015 (crew).
Truhol additionally has intensive worldwide crusing expertise and has come up by the RHKYC’s youth crusing group, the Sharks Squad. Truhol has skilled and competed abroad since 2014, together with in 13 international locations throughout her hole 12 months. She was 18th out of 65 on the 2017 European Radial Youth Ladies Championships, fifth on the 2017 Asian Crusing Federation Cup Girls’s Radial and third on the 2017 Hong Kong Race Week Laser Radial Open. Truhol gained the Tom Larmour Award in 2016.
The 4 pictured sailors are additionally joined by Aymeric Gillard
Aymeric Gillard additionally has worldwide regatta expertise, successful the 29er Worlds in Canada. Gillard has expertise within the Crimson Bull Foiling Era, Moths and Waszps, and has designed his personal foiling craft. He was additionally a member of the Hong Kong 29er crusing group for 3 years and acquired the Tom Larmour Award in 2012.
Lucy Sutro, RHKYC’s Rear Commodore (Crusing), stated: “The bodily evaluation was robust and gave the candidates a sign of the degrees of power and health that shall be required to deal with the AC9F foiling monohull which they are going to be competing in. The RHKYC is proud and thrilled to have youth members of such a excessive calibre becoming a member of Team Agiplast.”
Coaching begins instantly with a bodily coaching programme, with on-water coaching in Hong Kong deliberate to start out later this month.
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