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| RYCT sailor wins Laser Radials in Qld |
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Champion Tasmanian dinghy sailor George Jones has won the Laser Radial division of the Queensland Youth Week on Brisbane’s Waterloo Bay in an impressive lead-up to the Radial Youth Worlds in Japan in August. Four teenage sailors from the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania contested this week’s regatta in Brisbane, with George Jones winning, Elliott Noye placing third, Rohan Langford sixth and Zac Pullen 10th in the 28 boat fleet that included the top three Laser Radial sailors from all Australian states and territories.
Champion Tasmanian dinghy sailor George Jones has won the Laser Radial division of the Queensland Youth Week on Brisbane’s Waterloo Bay in an impressive lead-up to the Radial Youth Worlds in Japan in August. Five teenage sailors from the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania contested this week’s regatta in Brisbane, with George Jones winning, Elliott Noye placing third, Rohan Langford sixth and Zac Pullen 10th in the 28 boat fleet that included the top three Laser Radial sailors from all Australian states and territories. Hugh Jones placed 11th in the 4.7 rig. At the RYCT’s trophy presentation dinner last month Jones was awarded the Tattersalls Trophy for the outstanding youth sailor of the 2008-2009 season, his successes including the Tasmanian open and youth Laser championships and first youth and second overall in the Queensland Laser titles. Consistent sailing in this week’s Queensland Youth Week saw him score two wins, two seconds and two thirds in the ten race series to finish two points ahead of Queenslander Mitchell Kennedy with fellow Tasmanian Elliott Noye a further two points back. Noye’s score including one win, two seconds and two thirds. Jones, Noye and Langford are heading for Japan to contest the Laser Radial Youth World Championships in August. In the Radial fleet there were 28 entries from NSW, WA, QLD, VIC, NT and New Zealand. All but one of the top place youths in the country were at the event. For the sailors gearing up for the national and youth titles in December this year , this event was a great chance to see how their training was going and how they were rated against the current crop of youth sailors. Tasmanian Sailing Academy and Tasmanian Institute of Sport members Jones, Noye, Langford , Pullen and Jones have come away from the event with very encouraging results. Over the past four months with their coach Richard Scarr they have been training four mornings a week, starting at 6.30am whilst it is dark. It is about 5 degrees when they leave the shore, and some times it’s less!! They then go off to school at 8.20am.
During their lunch times at school they have been doing boxing or circuit sessions with Scarr three times a week. In the afternoons three times a week they are in the Tasmanian Institute of Sport gym with their TIS trainer Tim Mosey. Other times they are on their bikes with Scarr doing hill sessions and interval training on the flat. |
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