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Elisa Yukie Yokoyama
Elisa Yukie Yokoyama (born 22 February 1997) is a Singaporean sailor. Early life Yokoyama studied in CHIJ Katong Convent Primary School and then at Raffles Girls' School (Secondary), Raffles Girls’ School. She started sailing and racing at 9 years old. Sailing career Yokoyama won her first medal at the 2009 Optimist World Championship in Brazil, clinching the bronze medal in the team racing event. In 2011, Yokoyama won her first Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) medal by winning the gold medal in the Optimist class. In 2011, she was also part of the racing team for the Nation's Cup (Miami Herald Trophy) at the 2011 Optimist World Championship, which won the gold medal. At the Sailing at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games – Women's 420, 2015 SEA Games, Yokoyama, with her crew, Samantha Annabelle Neubronner, won the Under-19 double-handed 420 class. After the SEA games, Yokoyama was left without a crew as Samantha stopped sailing to focus on her studies. Yokoyama then paire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sailing (sport)
The sport of sailing involves a variety of competitive sailing formats that are sanctioned through various sailing federations and yacht clubs. Racing disciplines include matches within a fleet of sailing craft, between a pair thereof or among teams. Additionally, there are specialized competitions that include setting speed records. Racing formats include both closed courses and point-to-point contests; they may be in sheltered waters, coast-wise or on the open ocean. Most competitions are held within defined classes or ratings that either entail one type of sailing craft to ensure a contest primarily of skill or rating the sailing craft to create classifications or handicaps. On water, a sailing competition among multiple vessels is a regatta, which usually consists of multiple individual races, where the boat crew that performs best in over the series of races is the overall winner. There is a broad variety of kinds of races and sailboats used for racing from large yacht to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
