ISAF Sailing World Cup Final

ISAF has announced that Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates will host the new ISAF Sailing World Cup Final from 2014 all the way through to 2017. This final will bring together the top 20 boats in each Olympic event providing them with an annual challenge to become ISAF Sailing World Cup Champions.

In the ISAF Match Race Rankings  released today, Ian Williams (GBR) climbs back to the top of the Open Ranking list after 10 months behind Taylor Canfield (ISV). Camilla Ulrikkeholm (DEN) has managed to hold on to her World #1 Women's Ranking, holding off the new ISAF Women's World Champion Anna Kjellberg (SWE).

With many Graded events all over the world in the last month, including the first event of the 2014 Alpari World Match Racing Tour, there have been lots of changes to the rankings, check out all the movers and shakers in the article below.

In this week's World Sailing News we have the announcement of the Turkish and South African Youth Worlds sailing teams, see the full team list below.

Also we have summaries from the Laser Europeans, Laser North Americans, TP52 Worlds and Finn Masters.