Rowing/Sailing

Hannah Scott has already achieved her dream of becoming an Olympic champion. Almost two years on from that glorious day in Paris, the Coleraine sculler has had to come down from the incredible high and find the motivation once again as she approaches the halfway point to the next challenge …

Four-time Olympic sailing champion Ben Ainslie has secured investment to fund Britain’s America’s Cup challenge after a “pretty stressful” time following the split from Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos. Ainslie’s Athena Racing has sold a majority stake to private equity firm Oakley Capital which will provide “long-term financial stability to compete …

Det Supt Alison Fossey has been appointed an MBE for her services to island policing and the wider community of Jersey. She said was “delighted” with the award, adding: “I accept this honour on behalf of the victims and survivors of abuse who have bravely come forward. “Their courage has …

The youngest woman to row the Atlantic alone has spoken of the “strong currents, tough winds and tricky bits” she has faced as part of her latest challenge, spending a year at sea. Jasmine Harrison, 26, from Thirsk, is currently on a 14-month trip, sailing about 28,000 nautical miles, as …

The 35,688 sq ft museum building has two different parts and was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1998. In October 2022 it underwent a £1.1m refurbishment project. But in July 2025, the foundation trust made the decision to shut down the operation, citing rising costs. “Us occupying the building …

Karl was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa when he was a teenager and knows he could ultimately lose his remaining eyesight. “It’s a bit like looking through binoculars with no zoom, so I have very much what people describe as tunnel vision. I do have a very little bit of wide …

Karl Haines learned to sail four years ago and is a gold medal-winning parasailor with Team GB. BBC News

A lengthy period of rehabilitation ensued as Sills, from Launceston, balanced pain management with exercises to improve the neural pathways to his eyes and joints. Having finished seventh at the 2023 World Championships Sills qualified himself for the 2024 Olympics in the iQFOiL – a windsurfing category in which boards …

Great Britain celebrated double gold medal success at the season-opening World Rowing Cup I event in Seville. The men’s four secured a dominant victory by 5.22 seconds from France, who took second place, with the Netherlands in third. The women’s singles sculls was then won by Lauren Henry, who beat …

Defending champions Great Britain secured victory in the opening round of this year’s SailGP championship. Helmed by Dylan Fletcher, they won two of three fleet races before holding off Australia and France in the winner-takes-all final on the second day of racing in Perth. Fletcher described it as “an incredible …

Fletcher said his role in the upcoming competition was more focused on performance and speed. “I have an easier job this time – I’ll sit on one side of the yacht and have the steering wheel,” he said. “I just try to point us in the right direction and make …

Olympic champions Hannah Scott and Lola Anderson, along with Finnola Stratton and Sarah McKay, finished second in the women’s quadruple sculls at the first World Cup of the season in Seville. The Great Britain quartet were narrowly beaten by Germany but held of the fast finishing Romania boat for silver …

Two sailors were taken to hospital after a “catastrophic” crash between the New Zealand and France boats on the opening day of the New Zealand Sail Grand Prix in Auckland. Racing was abandoned following the incident and SailGP said the injured sailors – one from each team – are in …

The ashes of a seven-year-old girl who died in a road accident have reached the halfway point on a round-the-world sailing trip in her memory. Eloise was killed in a collision with a lorry while cycling on the A338 in Wiltshire in July 2021. Her ashes are being carried on …

Frances Reincke was sailing in the 1979 Fastnet Race when a fierce Force 10 storm hit. BBC News

Kit Nelson’s team of rowers will be collecting data on marine environments during the challenge. BBC News

Those performances showed selectors that their pair were ready for the senior Irish sailing squad, and now they are preparing for the first Grand Slam regatta of the season, the Princess Sofia Trophy in Palma, Mallorca. “Whenever we started sailing together, I guess we just clicked pretty quickly,” said McIlwaine. …

Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos group is taking legal steps to secure the return of a boat used in the last America’s Cup by Sir Ben Ainslie’s team. Ainslie was Ineos’ team principal and skipper, having got the backing of Ratcliffe in 2018 in a bid to a deliver a first …

At one point, near the French coast, the wind nearly vanished, said Gavériaux, who was born in Yeovil, Somerset. “I had, I would say, five knots wind speed, maybe less, so I was completely stopped,” he said. The conditions mostly held on the day of the challenge, 9 May, and …

A paramedic is preparing to row the entire coast of mainland Britain despite having no previous rowing experience before taking on the challenge. Kit Nelson, 26, will set off from Tower Bridge on Sunday 14 June as part of a six-strong team aiming to complete the 2,070-mile (3,331km) journey in …