A FORMER St Gabriel’s School and Holy Cross College pupil is making rapid progress on her path to sailing in the Olympic Games with her recent silver medal success in the international Delta Lloyd Regatta in Holland.
Anna Carpenter, 21, learnt to sail at Elton Sailing Club and began competing internationally in the women’s single-handed Olympic class, the Laser Radial, when she was just 14.
Two years ago, after earning a bronze medal at the National Youth Championships, she teamed up with Essex-born Amy Seabright in the women’s two-person Olympic class, the 470, and the pair were selected as part of the British Sailing Team.
Carpenter is now training full time in a bid to be selected for the Olympics. With only one team being selected to represent GB in 2016, the girls are hard pressed to beat British pairing Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark who are the current Olympic silver medallists.
Having proved themselves with a podium finish in Holland at the end of May, Carpenter and Seabright are determined to remain focused at the Weymouth and Portland Sailing World Cup this week, where the top 40 boats worldwide from all Olympic classes will compete in Weymouth.
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