Louis Vuitton Trophy regatta - TEAMORIGIN announces sailing line-up

8:35 PM Tue 3 Nov 2009 GMT

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TeamOrigin announced today the sailing team line-up for the forthcoming Louis Vuitton Trophy regatta in Nice, C?te d'Azur which commences at the weekend. The TeamOrigin sailing team line-up includes many of the familiar world class sailors...along with a few new names.

Leading the team is triple Olympic gold medallist Ben Ainslie, the team's skipper and helmsman, backed up by Iain Percy as tactician, Ian Moore as navigator, Andrew Simpson as strategist and Robert Greenhalgh as strategist/traveller - an impressive all British line-up for the afterguard.

The team includes eight sailors from Great Britain, four from New Zealand, three from Australia, and one each from France, Denmark and Poland.

Mike Sanderson, Team Director, commented: 'TeamOrigin is ready to go and looking forward to racing here in Nice. It is especially good to see GBR-75, our ACC training yacht, here on the water and in great shape thanks to the work of our shore crew over the last few weeks. It promises to be a great event.'

Ben Ainslie, team Skipper and Helmsman, added 'It is great to be back on the water with so many of the guys from the team squad that sailed together in the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series in Auckland - and a few extras who will surely add their expertise and skill to our team for this event. We are looking forward to the racing starting on Saturday and should have plenty of exciting matches against some of the best teams in the world.'

TeamOrigin Sailing Team for the Louis Vuitton Trophy Nice C?te d'Azur:

Matt Mitchell NZL Bowman
Julian Cressant FRA Mid Bowman
George Skuodas GBR Mastman
Craig Satterthwaite NZL Pit
Mark McTeague AUS Grinder
Pawel Bielecki POL Grinder
Chris Brittle GBR Grinder
Mike Mottl AUS Trimmer upwind
Christian Kamp DEN Trimmer downwind
Tony Mutter NZL Mainsail trimmer
Robert Greenhalgh GBR Strategist/traveller
Ben Ainslie GBR Skipper & Helmsman
Iain Percy GBR Tactician
Ian Moore GBR Navigator
Andrew Simpson GBR Strategist
Mike Sanderson NZL Runners
Anthony Nossiter AUS Runners/pit assist
Garry Bainbridge GBR Grinder back-up

Sailing Team Support

Kelvin Harrap NZL Afterguard coach
James Stagg GBR Crew coach
Stevie Erickson USA Sailing Manager
Charlotte Harmer NED PA to Mike Sanderson

by Henry Foster

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