Echegoyen & Barcelo: 2020 49erFX World Champions

The 49erFX made its first Olympic appearance at Rio five years ago, when the battle for gold and silver remained in the balance until the final stages of the Medal Race.

A good start in the 49erFX requires intense focus, superb boathandling and acute spatial awareness. One of the US Sailing Team's top 49erFX duos explain how it’s done....

Steph Roble and Maggie Shea had to win the Medal Race at the 2020 49erFX Worlds if they were going to secure their spot to represent USA at the Tokyo Olympics. In this tense replay of the race, Steph and Maggie talk through their hopes and fears in this blow by blow account of the most critical race of their careers...

Hannah Mills won silver at her first Olympic Games in London, competing with Saskia Clark in the 470 women’s event. Since London, she’s taken time out of the sport, returning to Olympic Classes sailing only this month as she and Clark prepare for their World Championships in August as a first step back on the Road to Rio

Lucy Macgregor is competing in the first ever World Championship in the new Nacra 17 multihull class, which she switched to after her Women’s Match Racing event was removed from the Games programme. Lucy finished seventh at the 2012 Games, where she competed with younger sister Kate and Annie Lush....

John Gimson and Anna Burnet kicked off 2020 in emphatic fashion. They were announced as the British Sailing Team's Tokyo 2020 representatives for the Nacra 17 Sailing and followed that up by taking out the 2020 Nacra 17 World Championship in dramatic fashion.

Andy Rice from Sailjuice.com looks back on that day with John & Anna to see how it all went down...