Laser Sailing Podcast

Hello everyone, thanks for clicking this February Podcast for Laser Sailing, I’m lily lijia xu. Today my guest is Hannah Snellgrove from the British sailing team who’s a triple national champion. Some of you may have already known that Hannah got covid last October. What’s her symptoms like? How’s her recovery so far? And what message she would like to pass on to all of us? Let’s find out!

Today my special guest is Erica Reineke from USA who won the Miami World Cup this year as well as two-time Radial Youth Word Champion title. She was the Rolex US Sailor of the year in 2017 and now campaigning in a new class of 49erFX for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Wanna to know more about this inspiring female sailor? Stay tuned for her stories next. All right that ends our podcast for the year of 2020. I would like to sincerely thank you all for the continuous support and company and hope we can have many years of wonderful episodes coming in the future. Here I’ll wish you a super Merry Christmas despite the lockdown situation. We will al go over this difficult period. Until, take care my dear friends. I’m Lily, see you in 2021!

This month our guest is the european champion Lorenzo Chiavarini from the british sailing team. He has won the under 21 world championship in 2014 as well as the World Cup event in qingdao 2015. I asked Lorenzo how he became an all around sailor from a light wind specialist and the journey he recovered from several injuries. Wanna to his answers? Stay tuned…

Our sailor of the month is Josefin Olsson from Sweden. She has participated in the last two Olympics and is now campaigning for theTokyo Games next year. Wanna know more about this world championship medalist? Keep listening.

Our guest today is Sam Meech who has won a bronze medal in the 2016 Rio Olympics, was winner of the 2013 Youth Americas Cup, and 2009 Youth World Championships. Before he mastered the dinghy boat, he had already been cruising around the world with his family.

Alison Young is a British sailor who won the 2016 Laser Radial World Championships. She has also participated in the last two Olympics, with 5th in London and 8th in Rio. Ali will make her 3rd Olympic appearance next year in Tokyo after being selected by the British Sailing Team in October 2019.

Charlie grew up in Newport Beach, California, where the influence of his father and family throughout his childhood led to an affinity for water sports.He started sailing at the age of 8. From there, he progressed through the junior, high school, and collegiate sailing ranks in the United States, eventually choosing to campaign for the 2016 Olympics in the Laser class after graduating from Georgetown University in 2011Charlie finished 11th place out of 46 nations in the 2016 Olympics. He is continuing to train and compete in the Laser toward the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Annalise Murphy from Ireland, who won the silver medal in Rio 2016 after a disappointing 4th in the London Games four years before that. She won the European Championships in 2013 and has sailed a flying moth, high performance boat 49er FX class, as well as the last Volvo Ocean Race with Turn the Tide to Plastic.

Rio Olympic Silver Medalist Tonci Stipanovid chat with us about how he trains at home during Covid-19 lockdown.

Tuula Tenkanen is a 2-time Olympian in Laser Radial class and a silver medalist in 2013 World Championships. She will represent Finland to attend the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and fight for an Olympic medal.

3 time Olympian Evi Van Acker looks back her sailing career as a Laser Radial sailor.

Pavlos Kontides is the very first Olympic medalist in his country, a two-time World Champion, the World Sailor of the Year, the flag-bearer in the 2016 Games, and many more.

Our female sailor guest today is Emma Plasschaert from Belgium. She won the World Championship in 2018 and the Tokyo Olympic Test Event in 2019. Let’s find out together how she became a champion sailor in the Radial class.

Double world champion, the British sailor Nick Thompson chat about his whole sailing career.