John Gimson and Anna Burnet kicked off 2020 in emphatic fashion. They were announced as the British Sailing Team's Tokyo 2020 representatives for the Nacra 17 Sailing and followed that up by taking out the 2020 Nacra 17 World Championship in dramatic fashion.
Andy Rice from Sailjuice.com looks back on that day with John & Anna to see how it all went down.
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He is the most experienced man in mixed multihull sailing on the Olympic Nacra circuit to date. Sebbe Godefroid (BEL) leads the way to this new discipline, by joining forces with Carolijn Brouwer in their bid for an Olympic medal in 2008 in the Tornado. On their way, they won silver at the 2007 ISAF Worlds in Cascais. It wasn’t an easy road with many bumps, which makes him a skilled coach for the Swiss team of two boats.
