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Samantha Murray


Samantha to defend herGB Open title


Mark Andrews (centre), pictured with Elliot Willis and Luke Patience, isinthe running to representTeamGBat the RioOlympic Games in 2016


Olympicsilvermedallist Samantha Murray defends her GB Open Pentathlon Championship in Solihull on Sunday.


He was his hero growing up,


thenhewasatrainingpartner ahead of the Beijing and Lon­ don Olympics. ■ But now Clitheroe sailor Mark


... Andrews is desperate to emu-


“ late Sir Ben Ainslie in Team GB colours.


Just one British sailor can


q represent Team GB in the Finn class at the Rio Games in 2016 and emulate theachieve- mentsofAinslie-arguably the world’s greatest ever sailor with four Olympic golds. And with four British Finn


sailors in the world’s top 10, including Andrews, Septem­ ber’s World Championships in , Spainwillbethefirstkeyindi-


■ *£rcator as to who will represent Team GB come Rio.


® ’ ' A host of Brits are fighting it out for the one Olympic Finn spot, with Ed Wright, Giles


Scott, Andrew Mills and An­ drews all evenly matched. ■ But Andrews, competing


at the weekend’s J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race, is determined to put down a marker following Ainslie’s decision to concen­ trate on other projects. “We’re building up towards


Rio and the Olympic Games how,” said Andrews. “We’ve got a World Championships in September in Santander, and all the Olympic sailing classes will be there. “It’s a huge event; it’s the


firststeponourtrialstoRioso . we’re hoping to do well there. “It’s important to lay down


a marker, if you don’t, you are notgoing. “With the Finn class we’ve


got four guys in the top 10 in the world who are all capable'


of winning regattas. “I think whoever wins that World Champs will be in


primepositionfortheGames. “Four into one doesn’t go.


In previously years, we’ve had the likes of Ben and Iain Percy who have done the business. “It’s someone else’s turn to


step up. All our names are in the hat, you’ve just got to do the business and show what you are made of. _ “It would be amazing to


get on the team; it’s obviously a long way away. It’s not about going, it’s about winning. . “I think that’s a big thing.


For us sailing in the UK, it’s not all about the competing, it’s about all the winning and taking home that medal. It’s a bigweightonyourshoulders.” In 2013 Andrews was part of Ainslie’s crew that broke


the multihull record during the J.P. Morgan AssetManage- ment Round the Island Race,


completing the event in 2hrs 52mins. With very different con-


• ditions at the weekend and a lack of wind hindering all competitors, it was a very dif-, ferent story all-together this time around but for Andrews it was simply the challenge of stepping away from his nor­ mal single-handed Finn and being part of a team. “This wasmy fourth timeat


Round the Island,” he added. “I’ve done it twice with Ben. We broke the record last year so I’m excited to be here again. “With a dinghy b a ck ­


ground, I sail Finn so I’m the same as Ben. I was his training


partner for the last two and a bitGames.


“This is more a what we call


an insure race, a bit different to what wedodayto day which is up and down round buoys


round and round in circles. “This is different, there are


a lot of different factors, tide and wind as its quite a long - race for example. “We were not going to be setting any records;.the chal­


lenge was just to get around.” - • The J.P. Morgan Asset


Management Round the Is­ land Race is one of the largest


participation sporting events in the UK and the largest yacht


race of its kind in the world. Organised by the Island Sail­ ing Club in Cowes, it is dubbed ‘Britain’s favouriteyacht race’, regularly attracting around 1,500 boats and 16,000 com­ petitors www.roundtheis- land.org.uk


ganised by Pentathlon GB, the national govern­ ing body for the Olympic sport of modern pentath­ lon, take place at the Tudor Grange Leisure Centre and the Solihull Riding Club. They double as the Brit­


ish Championships, and the highest placed British finisher in both the men’s and women’s competitions will earn places on the Pen­ tathlon GB team for the Eu­ ropean Championships in Hungary next month. Jan Bartu, Pentathlon


GB performance director, said: “The GB Open is part of the selection process for the European Champion­ ships for. the second con­ secutive year. That makes it an important competi­ tion for the British ath­ letes. “We want to see the


competition grow as an international event in fu­ ture years.”


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