420 Selection Series Starts

by John Meadowcroft 7 Mar 2022 02:39 PST

420 UK Nationals at Pwllheli © Jon Cawthorne

After a winter of training interspersed with a number of racing events the UK 420 Class starts its 2022 selection series this coming weekend ahead of the Junior Europeans in Portugal and the World Championships in Hungary.

There are three events at Rutland Water, Hayling Island, culminating in the Youth Nationals at Pwllheli in a month's time. Additionally from the Youth Nationals the RYA will select a male/mixed crew and a female crew to attend the World Sailing Youth Championships in the Hague in July. Everything is to play for with 37 boats entered for the first weekend, with a wide range of new and experienced partnerships and with 41 of the 74 sailors female, demonstrating the strong enduring attraction of the 420 class to attract and include a diverse group of sailors.

The GB fleet has 15 spots available for the Junior Europeans and 25 spots available for the World Championships. The detailed selection criteria can be found on www.gbr420.uk and it provides for a diverse selection of female, male and under 17 sailors to be selected.

The latest UK 420 rolling ranking is published today and the leading sailors are now Alice Davis and Oliver Rayner who, having come first and second in the last two events, have now taken the top spot from the 2021 National Champions Ella Lance and Will Martin.

420 GBR Class Rolling Rankings:

Pos	Helm	Crew	Itchenor GP2	Chew Valley GP3	Grafham End of Seasons	Winters WPNSA	Inlands Draycote	Pts
1	Alice Davis	Oliver Rayner	0	20	38	35	33	106
2	Henry Heathcote	Hector Bennett	27	17	36	33	32	101
3	Megan Farrer	Ellie Rush	26	0	37	28	29	94
4	Ollie Meadowcroft	Oscar Cawthorne	28	0	27	31	34	93
5	Joe Warwicker	Hugo Valentine	25	21	35	27	30	92
6	Mathias Potter	Ellie Thomas	24	14	30	32	22	86
7	Oli Hale	Tom Clayton	21	15	26	24	31	81
8	George Creasy	David Bromilow	15	0	33	30	18	81
9	Imogen Wade	Teddy Dunn	0	0	28	26	26	80
10	Harry George	Ralph Cawthorne	22	13	32	0	19	73
11	Ella Lance	Will Martin	0	0	39	34	0	73
12	Kt. Byne	Lia Horne	0	18	0	25	28	71
13	Freya Sewell	Arlo Braund	16	7	23	21	27	71
14	Heather Quinn	Gwyneth Lanyon	14	9	25	29	2	68
15	Ellie Creighton	Bea Greenfield	1	0	29	19	17	65
16	Millie Irish	Clara Jones	0	0	31	0	25	56
17	Emily Smith	Charlotte Beardsall	0	8	24	22	8	54
18	William Bailey	Matthew Rayner	0	11	0	18	24	53
19	Nick Evans	Joey Taylor	19	0	34	0	0	53
20	Sabine Potter	Merle Nieuwland	0	1	17	23	6	46
21	Sam Grayton	Raife Piggott	0	12	22	9	2	43
22	Arwen Fflur	Peter Cope	0	0	0	17	23	40
23	Rosie Sheahan	Susie Sheahan	10	6	16	10	12	38
24	Amber Hale	Sophie Hankins	0	5	12	12	13	37
25	Hazel Jones	Martyn Jones	18	0	0	16	0	34
26	Anna Miller	Tess Crooks	0	0	19	0	14	33
27	Louise Davis	Charlie Guyett	0	0	18	14	0	32
28	Noa Moskovitch	Gabs Burlton	0	2	10	11	9	30
29	Holly Wright	Olivia Nixon	0	0	0	7	21	28
30	Emma Breese	Arthur Bailey	0	0	9	8	7	24
31	Millie Irish	Lia Horne	23	0	0	0	0	23
32	Holly Wright	Matthew Rayner	0	0	21	0	0	21
33	Max Sweetman	Harry Thompson	0	0	0	0	20	20
34	Nick Evans	Emmy Walker	0	0	0	20	0	20
35	Max Sweetman	James George	0	0	20	0	0	20
36	Amber Hale	Bettine Harris	20	0	0	0	0	20
37	Imogen Wade	Dave Wade	0	19	0	0	0	19
38	Patrick Bromilow	Olivia Creasy	0	0	0	13	5	18
39	Emmy Walker	Charlotte Beardsall	17	0	0	0	0	17
40	Steven Greaves	Madeleine Greaves	0	0	0	0	16	16
41	Ellie Rush	Finlay Oliver	0	16	0	0	0	16
42	Jibriel Bostan	Bee Harris	0	0	0	0	15	15
43	Max Sweetman	Ralph Cawthorne	0	0	0	15	0	15
44	Rory Gifford	William O'Keefe	0	0	15	0	0	15
45	Jack McDowell	Harry Thompson	0	0	14	0	0	14
46	Jibriel Bostan	Patrick Hill	0	0	13	0	0	13
47	Alice Davis	Syzmon Matyjaszczuk	13	0	0	0	0	13
48	Holly Wright	Olivia Creasey	12	0	0	0	0	12
49	Adam Aziz	Ben Sherry	0	0	0	0	11	11
50	George Lance	Cian Epstein	5	0	0	6	0	11
51	Hazel Jones	Olivia Creasy	0	0	11	0	0	11
52	Izzy Massey	Fred Langhorne	11	0	0	0	0	11
53	Tanya Weighill	Patrick Hill	0	0	0	0	10	10
54	Louise Davis	Ollie Vennis Ozanne	0	10	0	0	0	10
55	Alice Bullock	Ella Eastwood	9	0	0	0	0	9
56	Eddie Paling	Eddie Quinn	6	0	1	2	0	9
57	Martha Christensen	Hayden Moore	0	0	4	0	4	8
58	James Gosson	BÃ©a Sparks	0	0	0	5	3	8
59	Thomas Kelsall	Cian Epstein	0	0	8	0	0	8
60	Ellie Creighton	Haydn Sewell	8	0	0	0	0	8
61	Eva Miller	Rose Edmonds	0	4	0	3	0	7
62	jess Haigh	Lucy Shelter	0	0	7	0	0	7
63	Macy Law	Ruaraidh Docherty	0	0	6	0	0	6
64	Tilly Brayshay	Chloe Mills	0	0	5	0	0	5
65	India Lance	James George	0	0	0	4	0	4
66	Martha Christensen	Ben Paling	4	0	0	0	0	4
67	Lauren Hetherington	Emily Hetherington	0	3	0	0	0	3
68	India Lance	George Lance	0	0	3	0	0	3
69	Ed Timberlake	Will Fountain	3	0	0	0	0	3
70	India Lance	Sophie Hankins	2	0	0	0	0	2
71	Sam Glover	Charlie Bourne	0	0	2	0	0	2
72	Ella Martin	George Self	0	0	0	1	0	1

420 UK Nationals 2021 at Pwllheli - photo © Jon Cawthorne