Five years ago the Olympic Finn class carried out a wide ranging survey of its top sailors to accumulate data regarding the weight, height and age of its sailors.
A new survey published in October 2015 reveals that the trend is for younger, taller and stronger sailors than five years ago.
The survey points out that this can be attributed to both the increasing average body size of the world's population but also highlights the increasingly athletic nature of internationally competitive Finn sailors.
Details of the survey are included in the International Finn Class magazine here