These athletes have all proven themselves in their class and every single one of them is capable of returning from Tokyo 2020 with a medal in their hands. “We’re thrilled to be announcing the first sailing members of Team GB today. The sailors we have announced today have a wealth of experience, including reigning Olympic Champions Hannah Mills and Giles Scott and I look forward to seeing what they can do in Enoshima next summer.” “Sailing made its debut at the Paris 1900 Games and British athletes have excelled on the Olympic stage ever since. : “We are delighted to announce the first 12 athletes who have been selected to Team GB for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Luke Patience and Chris Grube: 470 Men (Men’s Two Person Dinghy)Ĭharlotte Dobson and Saskia Tidey: 49erFX (Women’s Skiff)ĭylan Fletcher and Stuart Bithell: 49er (Men’s Skiff)Īlison Young: Laser Radial (Women’s One Person Dinghy)Įmma Wilson: RS:X Women (Women’s Windsurfer) Hannah Mills and Eilidh McIntyre: 470 Women (Women’s Two Person Dinghy) Giles Scott: Finn (Men’s One Person Dinghy Heavy) Team GB currently tops the overall Olympic sailing medal table. Wilson, the daughter of 19 Olympic windsurfer Penny Way, will look to win Britain’s first Olympic medal in women’s windsurfing since Bryony Shaw’s bronze at Beijing 2008.Īlison Young, the 2015 Laser Radial World Champion, earns her third Team GB call-up to round off the first wave of sailing selections for Tokyo 2020.īritain has a rich history of excellence in Olympic competition, having won 58 medals – including 28 golds – since sailing made its debut at Paris 1900. Squires takes up the mantle from veteran Olympian Nick Dempsey, the most successful Olympic windsurfer of all time with four Games and three medals to his name. Olympian Charlotte Dobson returns in the 49erFX, joined by Saskia Tidey who represented Ireland at Rio 2016 before joining the British team in 2017.īoth representatives in the RS:X windsurfer class are newcomers to the Olympics: Tom Squires and Emma Wilson, who at 20 years old is the youngest athlete announced. Patience, sailing in his third Olympics, will compete in the 470 Men class alongside Rio 2016 crew Chris Grube, while Bithell will fly the flag for Britain in the 49er class with Rio Olympian Dylan Fletcher.
Returning for another tilt at Olympic glory are London 2012 silver medallists Luke Patience and Stuart Bithell. Scott has also enjoyed a run of success in 2019, claiming his third Finn class European title and a bronze at Ready Steady Tokyo. Mills and McIntyre have rarely been off the podium since teaming up in 2017, with their success culminating in victory at the 2019 World Championships and silver at the Ready Steady Tokyo test event this summer. She will look to defend her crown in the 470 Women’s event alongside crew Eilidh McIntyre, who makes her Olympic debut 32 years after her dad Mike won gold for GB in the Star class. The Rio 2016 gold medallists are joined by a host of elite sailors representing eight of the 10 Olympic sailing classes, as the team is announced at Haven Holiday Park, Rockley Park in Poole.Ī Tokyo 2020 medal for Mills would make her the most successful female Olympic sailor of all time.
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