Olympic gold medalists Hannah Mills and Eilidh McIntyre, both from Great Britain, have been named female 2021 Rolex World Sailor of the Year while Australia’s Tom Slingsby won the men’s award.
Mills and McIntyre, who claimed gold in Tokyo in the 470 class, received 37% of the votes. The gold in Tokyo was Mills’s second following her victory from Rio 2016 with her new partner.
McIn-tyre won her first gold medal in Tokyo and followed in the footsteps of her father, Michael, who won gold at the 1988 Games in Seoul.
The pair received 37% of the votes, making them the clear choice for this year’s female Rolex World Sailor of the Year award.
Slingsby secured 29% of the votes after defend-ing his Moth World Championship, winning 13 of the 14 races, securing back-to-back 2019 and 2021 title wins.—APP
