SHANDON sailor Anna Burnet says winning Nacra 17 silver at the World Championships in the Netherlands was a “massive bonus” at the end of a challenging week.
Burnet partnered John Gimson to the overall runner-up spot after the medal race on the waters of the North Sea, off The Hague.
The 2020 and 2021 world champions went into the final race some way behind the Italian front-runners, Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti, who they’d trailed since the first race of the regatta, and were unable to overhaul their rivals’ advantage, finishing 26 points adrift of the winners, who retained their 2022 title.
To know we’d made it into the medal race and qualified the nation, we were super happy,” Burnet said after the medal presentation.
“To come away with the silver medal is a massive bonus.
We’ve chipped away at a really challenging week with the conditions and we’re really happy with the end result.”
Silver for the British pair, currently ranked number one in the world, comes after they finished third in the medal race at the Paris 2024 Olympic test event in Marseille last month, in which another Italian pair, Gianluigi Ugolini and Maria Giubilei, took gold.
Gimson said: “We have our conditions and the Italians have their conditions, and we had more days of theirs than ours this week.
“But we train together, so hopefully we can keep pushing each other hard and we can get a little quicker in their conditions.”
The Swedish pair of Emil Jarudd and Hanna Jonsson took bronze, holding off the challenge of the host nation’s Bjarne Bouwer and Laila van der Meer.
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