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Irish European Team qualify for Team Racing event in Lake Ledro.jpg "Irish European Team qualify for Team Racing event in Lake Ledro")
The Irish European team have qualified for the European Team Racing event in Lake Ledro. It’s a few years since it has happened and perhaps reflects the decision to send our top sailors to the European Chmapionships. To qualify in itself is a tremendous success.
IODAI will fund coach fees and expenses. The sailors themselves are provided with boats by the organisers and free accommodation. They will of course have to get themselves there and provide all other expenses. Hopefully the ISA will also now support the benefit of not sending sailors to the Worlds. Sending our best to Europe has at least resulted in this success.
Following the qualification of the team, six of a possible seven eligible sailors indicated their interest in sailing in the IODA European Team Championship. The team can have a maximum of 5 sailors. Accordingly, a selection process was been completed and the following sailors have been selected: Seafra Guilfoyle Colm O’Regan Fiona Daly Amy Harrington Tara Flood IODAI used the results from the European Championships as a basis for selection because it was felt most relevant to the decision. There were two possible ways of choosing 5 from the 6 available. The best 5 overall finishing places (which the way the team qualified) or on the basis of where (in percentage terms) the sailors were in their respective fleets (note that there were 147 boys but only 100 girls).
European Finishing Places Qualification for European Team Championships Boys (147 Entries) Best 5 % Age in Fleet 50 Seafra Guilfoyle 50 34% 90 Colm O'Regan 90 61% 107 Patrick Crosbie 73% Not available 126 John Durcan 86% Girls (100 Entries) 40 Fiona Daly 40 40% 61 Amy Harrington 61 61% 74 Tara Flood 74 74% As Patrick Crosbie has declared himself unavailable, there is no difference in selection on either basis.
The Notice of Race can be accessed at http://www.optiworld.org/09euroTRnor.pdf
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