Full marks for O'Leary

2nd November 2008

Ireland's match racing champion Nicholas O'Leary steered his college, Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) to world championship success on Friday in the final day of the Student Yachting World Cup at La Trinite-sur Mer, France.

In 15-20 knot north easterly breezes CIT used their boat speed advantage to good effect when O'Leary outwitted the Italian entries in a pre-start duel in the final race.

The Italians could only recover to 10th place after starting up to 20 seconds late. It was not enough to hold off CIT whose second place score in the last round gave them the overall title.

The CIT team for the week long event was skippered by O'Leary and comprised George Kenefick, Joseph Bruen, Grahame Durcan, Aoife English, Silvia Phelan, Cian Twomey, David Barnett and Adam McCarthy.

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