Clean Sweep for Ireland in Laser Radial Under-21 Women Euros

25th July 2017

Euro Champ – Aoife Hopkins of Howth Yacht Club

With a first overall for Aoife Hopkins of Howth, a second overall for Aisling Keller of Lough Derg, and a seventh overall for Sally Bell from Belfast Lough, Ireland has made pretty much of a clean sweep of the Laser Radial Under-21 Women’s Euros in Douarnenez writes W M Nixon.

Hopkins won it, with a trio of wins in yesterday’s packed schedule, and she comes home with just 10 points against her, having discarded a 3rd and a 4th to give her a scoreline of seven wins and a third.

Keller had a second and two thirds today, while Bell had a BFD, a sixth and eighth. With all of yesterday’s racing lost in a damp calm, it was a tense final day. But in a series which has seen everything from no wind at all up to the very edge of sailability with people racing among Atlantic breakers, it has ended on a real high for the Irish squad.

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