Crusing-Schneiter Arms Outteridge Swiss SailGP Helm To Focus On Olympics

LONDON: Swiss SailGP Workforce’s Sebastien Schneiter is stepping away from the helm for the remainder of this season to concentrate on successful an Olympic medal in crusing’s 49er class with Arno de Planta.

Geneva-based Schneiter stated he had handed the wheel of the Swiss F50 foiling catamaran to veteran co-driver Nathan Outteridge for the remainder of SailGP’s fourth season.

“It’s one of the best resolution for Swiss SailGP Workforce and for my purpose of successful an Olympic medal for Switzerland,” Schneiter stated forward of this weekend’s New Zealand SailGP.

In a packed yr for among the world’s high sailors the SailGP season culminates in a $2 million winner-takes-all grand ultimate in San Francisco in July, simply weeks earlier than the beginning of the Paris 2024 Video games.

“For the previous 10 years I’ve been working in the direction of this second and this summer time, with the Olympics in Marseille, I really feel that this dream can change into reasonable if we maintain working onerous,” Schneiter stated in a press release on SailGP’s web site.

Schneiter stated that regardless of ending this month’s 49er World Championship in Lanzarote in sixth place, the early levels of the occasion had not gone as deliberate for the Swiss pair.

“Having somewhat problem and never reaching our targets has allowed us to mirror and alter our approaches, which has made us come out of it stronger,” he added.

After the Olympics, the crusing world’s focus will change to New Zealand’s defence of the thirty seventh America’s Cup in Barcelona. Racing begins in late August and runs till October and consists of the primary girls’s occasion, in addition to a youth competitors.

Britain’s Ben Ainslie handed the helm of his SailGP F50 to double Olympic gold medallist Giles Scott in January in order that he might focus on his function as skipper of INEOS Britannia, the British challenger for the America’s Cup.

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