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The 200 days to go milestone on the Road to Rio was marked on January 18th and the opening major regatta of the 2016 Olympic sailing calendar, Sailing World Cup Miami, just wrapped up with two medals for the NZL Sailing Team.
Image taken at the 2015 Rio Test Event by Sailing Energy/Pedro Martinez
Things are set to get busier and busier.
February is stacked with key events featuring members of the NZL Sailing Team (sailor profiles here) and Aon Fast Track Squad (sailor profiles here), with some of our headline acts, including Peter Burling and Blair Tuke, and Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie, sailing their 2016 World Championships.
2016 Oceanbridge Sail Auckland Regatta, New Zealand’s premier Olympic and Invited classes event, also occurs in February being hosted this year by the Murrays Bay Sailing Club on Auckland’s North Shore.
In an Olympic year the stakes are raised with the world’s best vying for Olympic selection at the same time benchmarking their progress towards August and the Rio Olympic Games – it’s all on!
Open your diary or calendar – here are this year’s key dates on the Road to Rio.
February
2016 49er and 49erFX World Championships, Clearwater, Florida
Racing dates: 9-14 February
2016 Nacra 17 World Championships, Clearwater, Florida
Racing dates: 9-14 February
2016 470 Men’s and Women’s World Championships, San Isidro, Argentina
Racing dates: 22-27 February
2016 RS:X Men’s and Women’s World Championships, Eilat, Israel
Racing dates: 22-27 February
2016 Oceanbridge Sail Auckland, Murrays Bay Sailing Club
Racing dates: 24-28 February 2016
March
2016 Finn European Championships, Barcelona, Spain
Racing dates: 7-12 March
2016 Princess Sofia Regatta, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Racing dates: 28 March – 2 April
April
2016 Laser Radial World Championships, Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico
Racing dates: 14-20 April
Sailing World Cup Hyeres, France
Racing dates: 22-26 April
May
2016 Laser World Championships, Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico
Racing dates: 12-18 May
June
Sailing World Cup Weymouth, United Kingdom
Racing dates: 10-14 June
August
2016 Rio Olympic Games, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Racing dates: 8-19 August
2016 Rio Paralympic Games, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Racing dates: 7–18 September
For more information contact:
Jodie Bakewell-White
Communications Manager, Yachting New Zealand
Tel. 021 709 065
Email. Jodie@yachtingnz.org.nz
