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Sail-World.com : European titles as RYA Mirror Squad show their talent in Ireland
European titles as RYA Mirror Squad show their talent in Ireland
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'Matthew and Ben Lulham-Robinson'
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RYA Mirror National Junior Squad brothers Matthew and Ben Lulham-Robinson are celebrating their success after returning home to Yorkshire as European Junior Mirror Champions today (26, August) having scooped the title at the coveted event held at Sligo Yacht Club, Ireland last week.
Adding to RYA Team GBR’s success RYA North Zone Squad sisters Emma and Rachel Grayson also finished the event as top Junior girls with seven Junior Squad sailors also achieving top ten results in the Junior competition.
RYA Mirror National Junior Squad coach Catherine Putt was bowled over by her young sailors performance, she said: 'This has been a fantastic display of what great talent we have in our Junior and Zone squads.
'Matt and Ben did fantastically well – they have trained really hard over the winter and it’s all clicked together for them securing such a good results against some real adversities too which was great.'
'The girls have also done really well to beat a lot of National Junior Squad sailors – their performance was absolutely awesome.'
With the aim of achieving a top ten or fifteen result at the six-day event (16-21, August) Matthew and Ben who are also North RYA Volvo Zone Champions and Scottish Mirror Champions were surprised to claim the title, as 11-year-old crew Ben explains: 'I don’t know how it feels [to win] really, we were quite surprised how well we did – we were probably expecting to come top three junior and tenth or fifteenth overall. Our plan was to try and get the kite set quick go the right way up he beat and get constant results really and that obviously worked!'
The duo from Burley-in-Wharfedale, West Yorkshire also finished fifth overall ranking impressively well against the senior competition.
Thirteen your old helm Matthew added: 'We’re really, really pleased to win the junior title and come fifth overall. We’ve been working for this for a long time so it’s good all the works paid off training with the national squad over the winter.'
'It was quite difficult and we had to work really hard to get the result all week. Training for a variety of conditions so we could be sure we could cope with anything that happened helped.'
The pair are now planning their training for their next international competition which looks to be the Mirror Worlds which take place just after Christmas in Albany, Australia.
Catherine concluded: 'The results show just how far we have come as a team in the Mirror squads and it really means a lot in terms of bringing on the next generation of junior sailors.'
For full result and more information about the event visit www.sligoyachtclub.org
Top ten RYA National Junior Squad sailor Junior results
1st – Matthew and Ben Lulham-Robinson
2nd – Emma and Rachel Grayson
4th – Peter Sedgewick and Nick Pugh
6th – Helena Pugh and Libby Courage
7th - John and Claire Peterson
8th – Maddy Anderson and Kim May-Papilou
10th – Oliver White and William Hide
http://www.rya.org.uk/
by RYA
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