The ONLYRacing Team AUS
2012 ISAF World Cup Bronze - Princesa Sofia Regatta, Palma, Mallorca, SPA
The ONLY Racing Team of Olivia Price, Nina Curtis and Lucinda after qualifying the nation for entry to the 2012 London Olympic Games in Perth in December also qualifying for inclusion to the Australian Sailing Team (AST) began the 2012 season with an almost perfect preparation winning the silver medal at the ISAF World Cup Miami OCR in the USA late January.
They returned home for a series of official training camps and their final AST Family Day before again returning to competition in Europe, warming up with a grade 1 WMR regatta in St Quay, FRA using it as their training regatta in the lead up to their next ISAF World Cup in Palma, Majorca, Spain where they continued their strong showing by winning the bronze medal.
With these back to back podium achievements on the ISAF World Cup Tour they have risen to first place in the Women's Match Racing rankings after event 3.
They returned home for a series of official training camps and their final AST Family Day before again returning to competition in Europe, warming up with a grade 1 WMR regatta in St Quay, FRA using it as their training regatta in the lead up to their next ISAF World Cup in Palma, Majorca, Spain where they continued their strong showing by winning the bronze medal.
With these back to back podium achievements on the ISAF World Cup Tour they have risen to first place in the Women's Match Racing rankings after event 3.
HISTORY @ JUNE 2011
ISAF 2011 Nations Cup Grand Final
June 2011 - (latest news from the Australian Sailing Team website)
In the Australian Women’s Match Racing Team, Olivia Price, who has developed remarkably quickly as skipper, is now teamed up with Nina Curtis as middle and Lucinda Whitty as bow .
The crew began their campaign at the 2011 Open European Championships in Helsinki, Finland this July 2011 and were selected to represent Australia at the Weymouth and Portland International Regatta 2011, the Olympic venue in August 2011 and then travel to the USA to compete in the ISAF Nations Cup 2011 Grand Final with an in-between stopover at the Buddy Melges Challenge at the USA Sailing Center, another grade 1 regatta where both Olivia and Nina were part of the winning crew as middle and bowman respectively in 2010.
The new team may be youthful in age but certainly not in experience and achievement. Both Nina and Lucinda are previous World Champions of women's match racing, these two talented sailors being members of the Australian winning crew in the 2009 ISAF Match Racing World Championship in Lysekil, SWE. They were also named the Australian Female Sailors of the Year in the season 2010/2011. Nina as middle has been crewing alongside Olivia as a bowman during the past year whilst Lucinda has been predominately competing against both these two as either skipper or bow in other Australian Women's Match Racing Squad and Team crews over the past two years.
"We are still in the development stages of learning, with our preparation for the Pre-Olympics being very detailed in drills and experimental in maneuvers" Olivia said immediately after selection to the test event.
Read more on the team members by following these Bio links here - Olivia, Nina and Lucinda.
The ONLYRacing Team AUS will now campaign together leading up to the Olympic Games, with their next competition later this year being held in Australia at the 2011 Perth ISAF World Championships in December.
In the Australian Women’s Match Racing Team, Olivia Price, who has developed remarkably quickly as skipper, is now teamed up with Nina Curtis as middle and Lucinda Whitty as bow .
The crew began their campaign at the 2011 Open European Championships in Helsinki, Finland this July 2011 and were selected to represent Australia at the Weymouth and Portland International Regatta 2011, the Olympic venue in August 2011 and then travel to the USA to compete in the ISAF Nations Cup 2011 Grand Final with an in-between stopover at the Buddy Melges Challenge at the USA Sailing Center, another grade 1 regatta where both Olivia and Nina were part of the winning crew as middle and bowman respectively in 2010.
The new team may be youthful in age but certainly not in experience and achievement. Both Nina and Lucinda are previous World Champions of women's match racing, these two talented sailors being members of the Australian winning crew in the 2009 ISAF Match Racing World Championship in Lysekil, SWE. They were also named the Australian Female Sailors of the Year in the season 2010/2011. Nina as middle has been crewing alongside Olivia as a bowman during the past year whilst Lucinda has been predominately competing against both these two as either skipper or bow in other Australian Women's Match Racing Squad and Team crews over the past two years.
"We are still in the development stages of learning, with our preparation for the Pre-Olympics being very detailed in drills and experimental in maneuvers" Olivia said immediately after selection to the test event.
Read more on the team members by following these Bio links here - Olivia, Nina and Lucinda.
The ONLYRacing Team AUS will now campaign together leading up to the Olympic Games, with their next competition later this year being held in Australia at the 2011 Perth ISAF World Championships in December.
Cadel Evans wrote to the girls after winning the Tour de France when he saw the girls being interviewed during the Olympic Test Event in August.
ONLYRacing Team Australia Campaign
Olivia Price, Nina Curtis and Lucinda Whitty, members of the Australian Women's Match Racing Team are holding steadfastly true to their campaign - ONLYRacing Team Australia - to win GOLD for Australia next July/August at the Olympic Games in London 2012.
The Skipper - Olivia is the youngest member of the Australian Women's Match Racing Team at 19yrs of age and has been and remains the youngest competitor on the ISAF World Cup Women's Match Racing Tour for the past three years. Olivia will be 19yrs at the start of the games and potentially the youngest female ever to win a sailing Gold Medal from any country.
Although Olivia is in her final year of school, Olivia's recent outstanding performance in preparation for the Olympic Games has seen her rise dramatically through the world rankings as a crew member and now skipper. It all commenced with her invitation at 16yrs of age in September 2008 to join the Australian Sailing Development Squad. She has already attained the pinnacle of ISAF Women's World Ranking's #1 rank as bowman in 2010 and is currently the dual crowned 2010 Australian Women's Match Racing Champion as skipper and 2010 Australian National Open Match Racing Champion as crew .
In June 2011, Olivia was given the opportunity to skipper her own boat and crew on the World Cup Tour and after her third ISAF World Cup event at the helm succeeded in winning their first team ISAF World Cup Bronze Medal, complimenting her already complete set of World Cup medals as a crew. After such rapid improvement well beyond what would normally be expected in international competition, Olivia and her team of world champions Nina Curtis (23) and Lucinda Whitty (21) succeeded in winning selection to represent Australia in the Olympic Test Event at the Olympic venue in Weymouth, UK and the ISAF Nations Cup Finals at the US Sailing Centre, Sheboygan USA. in 2011. After winning the silver medal at the 2012 ISAF World Cup Miami OCR Regatta in January 2012, they have re-affirmed their goal to win GOLD in London 2012.
The ONLYRacing Team AUS Crew Members
Olivia Price
Olivia began sailing when she was eight years old on a Manly Junior in Sydney Harbor. She first represented Australia in sailing at the Kiel ISAF World cup in 2009 where she took second place as a bowman. As a crew member Olivia and her team took first at the 2010 Sail For Gold World Cup, and 3rd at the 2010 Women's World Championships. Since May this year, Olivia has taken up the role as one of the Australian Women's Match Racing Team skippers, joining forces with Nina Curtis and Lucinda Whitty. Recent results include being the Australian Women's Match Racing Champion, 3rd at 2011 Kiel World Cup, 5th at the 2011 Pre-Olympic Test Event and 6th at the Buddy Melges in Sheboygan last week. |
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Nina Curtis
Nina Curtis began sailing at the age of 6 in her home town Pittwater in Sydney. She began match racing in 2003 winning her first of 4 Australian Championships later that year. Recently Nina has been on Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal winning teams at the Woman’s ISAF World Match Racing Championships as well as winning various World Cup events such as Kiel and Sail for Gold. This will be Nina’s third consecutive Nations Cup for Australia. Nina is sailing sailing with Olivia Price and Lucinda Whitty and as a team they recently resulted 5th at the Pre Olympics regatta in Weymouth.
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Lucinda Whitty
Lucinda Whitty started sailing when she was 5yrs old. She has been on the Australian Women's Match Racing Team for the past 4 years and is currently sailing with Olivia Price and Nina Curtis. She won the ISAF 2009 worlds and was named Female UTS Athlete of the Year. Other recent results include 5th at the Pre Olympic Test Event, 2nd at Kiel World Cup Event and 6th at the Buddy Melges 2011. Lucinda competed in the last Nation's Cup Event in Brazil, coming 5th overall. Apart from Sailing, she is doing her Business degree at the University of Sydney Technology.
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