A big congratulations to Anne-Marie from the team at Zhik! Amazing acheivement and well deserved. Rolex World Sailor of the Year 2019...

The road to an Olympic Games has its ups and downs and regular success is often hard to come by. Denmark's Anne-Marie Rindom has found form at the right time ahead of Tokyo 2020 and has been the leading Laser Radial sailor in 2019.

She secured her second world title in 2019 and that success has not been isolated; throughout 2019 she has secured gold medals at four high-profile events.

Before she headed to Japan for the 2019 World Championship, Rindom secured gold at the Trofeo S.A.R. Princesa Sofia Regatta in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. She then topped the standings at her second consecutive event after she won in light and challenging wind conditions at the Hempel World Cup Series event in Genoa, Italy. Just weeks later she made it three in a row by securing the European Championship title in Porto, Portugal, moving to World #1 as a result.

On her achievements, Rindom commented, "To become Rolex World Sailor of the Year and joining a list of legends is truly amazing. I'm so delighted to be on that list and it's a great honour for me. It meant a lot to be nominated and I was very happy and excited to just be here but to win it is amazing. I have got my sister here with me. She's come all this way and we're only here for 50 hours so tonight we will celebrate and fly home tomorrow morning.

"This year has been the best year of my career so far so I'm very pleased with how it's going. We are training for next year, the Olympic year, so it's going to be an important year."