Student yachting team crowned World Champions
The University of Southampton’s student yachting team have been crowned World Champions by winning the 34th Student Yachting World Cup.
This is the first time that the University has ever won the World Cup.
They beat 11 other teams from the around the world across six days of racing at La Rochelle, France producing a fantastic performance by winning nine of the 16 races.
The team members were -
- Conrad Manning, fourth-year Ship Science
- Anabel Vose, second-year Ship Science
- Dan Flanigan, MSC Ship Science graduate
- George Johnson, fourth-year Ship Science
- Jonty Cook, Economics graduate
- Richard Burrows, Ship Science graduate
- Kate Devereux, second-year Ship Science
- Jamie Diamond, second-year Ship Science
Conrad said: “It was an absolutely fantastic week, competing against top notch teams in beautiful weather. It still has not quite sunk in that we won!”
Conrad was interviewed on BBC Radio Solent about the team’s success. Listen to the interview here (it starts at 02:16:40): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p028cr78
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