July 18, 2010
LARGS, SCOTLAND - Olympic Champion and three-time Collegiate Sailing national champion Anna Tunnicliffe-Funk ('05) finished seventh at the Radials World Championships.
Anna scored a first place and two seconds during the event which was shortenedbecause of no wind the final two days of racing.
Finland's Sari Mutala successfully defended her World Championship title over theNetherlands' Marit Bouwmeester.
Representing the USA, Anna Tunnicliffe won the Gold Medal in the Women's Laser Radial dinghy at the 2008 Olympic Games in Qingdao, China. Anna was the ISAF world's Number One-ranked women's Radial sailor from April 9, 2008 to May 2010. She was voted 2009 ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year in November 2009. Now Anna, skipper of Team Tunnicliffe, has teamed up with Molly O'Bryan Vandemoer and Debbie Capozzi to take on the world and go for Gold in 2012 London Olympic Games in Women's Match Racing.
The three-time Collegiate All-American is also a two-time recipient of the US RolexYachtswoman of the Year award.
Keep up with Anna at www.annatunnicliffe.com.
Final Standings: Laser Radial Womens World ChampionshipsGold Flight Overall After race 6 Inc. 1 discard
1 S Multala (FIN) 4,3,1,(49),2,5, Nett = 15pts,
2 M Bouwmeester (NED) 2,1,5,(7),6,8,= 22pts,
3 P Railey (USA) 3,1,4,16,(17),3 = 27pts,
4 S Steyaert (FRA) 23,4,1,3, 15,4, = 27pts,
5 T Drozdovskaya (BLR) 1,5,14,3,(32),13, = 36pts,
6 T Mihelic (CRO) 15,8,3,8,(35),6, = 40pts,
7 Anna Tunnicliffe (USA) 1,2,37,(49),5,2, = 47pts,
8 E Van Acker (BEL) 6,11,(21),14,1,15, = 47pts,
9 G Scheidt (LTU) 13,19,2,4,(40),11, = 49pts,
10 M de Kerangat (FRA) 18,7,15,5,(19),10 = 55pts,