A HARD TEST AHEAD AT HEMPEL WORLD CUP SERIES ENOSHIMA

Hempel World Cup Series Enoshima follows on from Ready Steady Tokyo, the Olympic test event, and is expected to be a harder event to win based on larger, competitive fleets with more than one sailor per nation on the startline.

Just a small number of nations had more than one athlete in each fleet at Ready Steady Tokyo but now, at the Hempel World Cup regatta, the full squads have assembled, aiming to prove their worth for Tokyo 2020 Olympic selection.

Racing is scheduled to take place on the same racing areas as the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and the event will be a real indicator as to who will be in contention for medals in just under one year's time.

Hempel World Cup Series Enoshima is the Men's and Women's 470 their third consecutive event in Enoshima. They concluded their World Championships earlier this month and moved straight into Ready Steady Tokyo.

In the Men's fleet, 2019 World Champions and Ready Steady Tokyo winners Mat Belcher and Will Ryan (AUS) are aiming for a hat trick of victories. Jordi Xammar and Nicholas Rodriguez (ESP) and Anton Dahlberg and Fredrik Bergström (SWE) joined the Australians on the podium at both events and will want to overthrow them.

In total, 32-teams will take to the startline and this is bolstered by eight Japanese teams who are fighting to go to the Olympic Games.

Hannah Mills and Eilidh McIntyre (GBR) won the Women's 470 World Championship and Camille Lecointre and Aloise Retornaz (FRA) clinched the Ready Steady Tokyo honours. Both teams have opted out of a third consecutive event. Japan's Ai Kondo Yoshida and Miho Yoshioka, already selected for Tokyo 2020, will lead the charge and are joined by strong teams from Australia, China, Spain, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland the USA.

Racing will start at 12:00 local time on Tuesday 27 August.

The 470s will conclude racing on Sunday 1 September at 12:00 local time and you can watch here https://youtu.be/DwMBD476ybI.

How to follow:

EVENT WEBSITE

Click here for further information on Enoshima and the Hempel World Cup Series -

https://wcs-enoshima.org/

ENTRIES / RESULTS / SCHEDULE
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Results will be available here -

http://sailing.org/worldcup/results/index.php

To view the full schedule click here.

WATCH

Daily highlights and live streamed Medal Races on Saturday and Sunday will be available across the World Sailing Network.

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Sunday Medal Races - 470 -

https://youtu.be/DwMBD476ybI

SAP SAILING ANALYTICS

Live tracking, sailor analytics, live weather data and racing status will be available on the SAP Sailing Analytics here -

https://hwcs2020-round1.sapsailing.com

SOCIAL MEDIA

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Source: World Sailing