Team Mall - Pippa Wilson
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Pippa Wilson first set sail in an Optimist aged five, and was chosen to represent Great Britain at the ISAF Youth World Championships in 2002 when she was just 16. She lived up to all expectations, taking gold and going on to become European Champion later that year.
In 2006 Pippa was one of the youngest people to be selected for the GBR Skandia World Class Performance Squad. Her first event representing the squad was the North American Championships in Miami, at which she finished third. She then went on to beat her key UK opponents at the Hyeres Olympic Regatta in May.
Pippa's ambition is simple - Olympic Gold - and this has been accelerated by her joining Sarah Ayton and Sarah Webb (Gold medalists from the Athens 2004 Olympics) in the Yngling class.
Pippa is representing the following Mall, click to visit their What's On pages: The Mall Southampton
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Recent Results...
1st October 2007
Pippa has been selected by the RYA's Olympic Selection Committee as a recommendation to compete in the 2008 Beijing Olympics as a member of the Yngling Women's Kneelboat.
July 2007
ISAF World Sailing Championship, Portugal - Gold
April 2007
Princess Sofia Regatta, Palma - Silver
February 2007
North American Championships - Gold
January 2007
Rolex Miami Regatta - Silver
Pippa's Blog...
Just waving goodbye to Palma Mallorca for another year out the aeroplane window. It seems like only last week that we set up camp out here in Palma for our winter training, not 5 months ago. It is a pretty ideal location for our intense winter training sessions and pretty much yearly without fail, we bring ourselves and our equipment out and base ourselves on the island which offers slightly warmer conditions than UK and a wide range of wind strengths and sea states along with great running and cycling scenery to keep us amused. The end of the training period and the start of competitions is marked every year with the Princess Sophia Regatta, a Grade 1 International Regatta, the first of 3 in a European Grand Prix type circuit (followed by Hyeres Olympic Week and Holland Regatta) and is always very well attended by all nationalities and Olympic Classes and is a (of which there are 11).
We finished 2nd in the regatta with an exciting windy, wavy and pretty cold and wet medal race to end the regatta. Oympic sailing at its most extreme! It has been a great week of racing for us, with a very wide range of conditions, wind blowing all strengths and from every direction giving us some very testing racing and great opportunity to measure up our equipment against the rest of the world. Definitely a positive outcome for us, we are always looking to win but we sailed consistently and are in a learning/testing phase of the year so the most important thing for us is to come away with lots of things to learn and improve and that is definitely the case this week so all is well.
We are having a well deserved day of rest and its Easter weekend so looking forward to getting back home and seeing my family for Easter Sunday, most likely to also include a couple of hours in the gym! We head to Blanes, Spain on Thursday for our European Championships.
April
Click here to download the Yngling Girls newsletter: April 08
February
Click here to download the Yngling Girls newsletter: February 08
December 2007
Click here to download the Yngling Girls newsletter: December 07
