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Grube selected for third Olympic Games


Sailor Chris Grube has been selected in the mixed dinghy class alongside Vita Heathcote for the Paris Olympics.

Grube joins fellow Welshman Michael Beckett in the Team GB sailing squad.

He will be appearing at his third Olympics after he competed at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, finishing fifth both times.

“I just wanted one last opportunity to see what we can do this time around,” Grube said.

The mixed dinghy class is a new class, replacing the separate men’s and women’s 470 events to make one new mixed event.

Grube and Heathcote only started sailing together eight months ago but earned their selection with a silver medal at the recent World Championships.

“Last year, coming into the World Championships, Vita needed a crew,” Grube told British Sailing.

“We thought we’d test out our partnership together at that event.

“We had a good result there, then six months training down the line and we were second at the World Champs this year.



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