Australian Gill Race Team sailors excel at the 420 Junior European Championships.

Postato il 17/08/2011

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Australian Gill Race Team sailors excel at the 420 Junior European Championships.

Angus Galloway and Alex Gough will take home two gold medals and a bronze to end their successful campaign having won the 420 Junior European Championships in Belgium, capping off a great European season for the Queensland based pair.

The win in Belgium for Galloway and Gough follows their Bronze medal at the 2011 ISAF Youth Sailing World Championship in Croatia last month and their earlier win at Kieler Woche in Germany.

The pair was at the head of the fleet in Nieuwpoort for the entire regatta, finishing in the top 10 in all but one race, picking up four race wins along the way.

The 420 Junior European Championships featured 101 crews from 21 nations with close racing throughout the fleets across all 10 races on the North Sea.

Galloway and Gough went into the final race in the light conditions just one point ahead of French crew Guillaume Pirouelle and Valentin Sipan with the Australians keeping a close eye on their competition throughout the race and bringing home the Gold medal.

On their return the boys will now make the transition into the Olympic 470 class, with their next big event being Sail Melbourne in November.