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	Ben Ainslie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ben Ainslie MBE (born February 5, 1977 in Macclesfield) is a British sailor and two-times Olympic gold medalist.
		The son of Roderick 'Roddy' Ainslie, who captained a boat that took part in the first Whitbread Round The World Race in 1973, he won a gold medal at the World Youth Championships in 1995, and was awarded the title of British Yachtsman of the Year in 1995, 1999, 2000 and 2002.
		Ainslie was a gold medalist at the 1993 Laser Radial World Championship, gold medalist at the 1993 Laser Radial European Championship, silver medalist at the 1994 IYRU World Youth Sailing Championship in Marathon, Greece and gold medalist at the 1995 IYRU World Youth Sailing Championship in Hamilton, Bermuda.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ben_Ainslie (366 words)

	Sport \| Ben Ainslie
		Ainslie suffers from an allergic reaction to the sun, so expect his life story to appear exclusively in the Mirror.
		Once the Ainslies moved from Cheshire to Kernow there were only two things young Ben could turn his hand to, and he clearly didn't fancy campaigning for Cornish autonomy.
		Ainslie is a cunning sailor and master navigator from a small island.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4984231-114071,00.html (368 words)

	Olympic Laser Sailing
		Although Ben Ainslie had led the Laser fleet from day one, he always knew that he would have to sail out of his skin to win the gold medal today in the final races of the regatta.
		Ben Ainslie struggled for much of the week (only by his high standards) but pulled through by winning the last race to 3rd overall, and thus clinched selection for Team GBR at the 2000 Olympics.
		Ben Ainslie is awarded the BT Yachtsman of the Year and the WS Atkins Inshore Yachtsman of the Year
	www.ukdinghyracing.com /olympic/laser.htm (484 words)

	South African Sailing
		Ian Ainslie, 39, is a three-time Olympian in the Finn class and was ranked among the top 10 Finn sailors in the world from 1996 to 2000.
		Ben Ainslie is a member of Emirates Team New Zealand and was a B boat skipper for the team during its training in New Zealand last winter.
		Ben Ainslie protested the race committee after the match, but it was a fruitless effort and quickly dismissed by the jury.
	www.sailing.org.za /print.php?sid=87 (749 words)

	Olympics
		Ainslie was in 11th with Scheidt and Blackburn in a group of boats in 21st and 28th.
		Ainslie had taken a place on the downwind and upwind to climb to 8th whilst Scheidt was struggling to get back into the chase at 18th having been 15th at the end of the downwind.
		Ben was whisked away after the press conference and within an hour was in the BBC - he came to see some of the footage of the race, he couldn't have been more polite, more appreciative.
	www.jdecm.com /laser/olympics.htm (7292 words)

	Telegraph \| Sport \| Ben Ainslie
		Ben Ainslie's gold medal in the Finn Class among the fickle winds of the Saronic Gulf did not just add to Olympic history; it grew the legend that at 27 he could yet be acknowledged as the greatest sailor in our history.
		It was much more than the wholesale change of shape needed to bulk up from the lean 12-st Ainslie of the Sydney Olympics Tornado to the massive 14-st sailor who hustled around the much heavier Finn in Athens.
		It was the maturing sense of destiny about the young man from Lymington, and the regard in which he is held by even the hardest of his peers.
	telegraph.co.uk /sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2004/12/12/pers/soba12.xml (267 words)

	Welcome to SFX Sports Group (Europe) Ltd \| Ben Ainslie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ben's interest in sailing began at an early age when given a small Optimist sailing dinghy as a gift from his parents.
		Ben successfully progressed through this very popular youth class and at the age of sixteen moved into the laser, which is the class used for the men's single-handed division of the Olympics.
		Ben is an experienced motivational and question and answer speaker, and can draw on his success and hard work to the benefit of many companies.
	www.sfxsports.co.uk /biogs_other.asp?BiogID=180 (303 words)

	South African Sailing
		Dubbed the "match of the Ainslies" Ian beat Ben when the Great Briton, a double Olympic gold medallist in the Finn Class who was head hunted by the Kiwi's for their 2007 America's Cup campaign, started too early in a strengthening Mistral wind.
		Ben Ainslie protested the race committee after the loss, saying that the timing between the start flag and the sound signal wasn’t in sync.
		Ben Ainslie, Thierry Peponnet (FRA-K Challenge), Peter Holmberg a helmsman for Team Alinghi who was knocked out today by Coutts (the former Alinghi skipper who led his team to victory I the 2003 America's Cup), and Polish skipper Karol Jablonski have now been eliminated from the competition.
	www.sailing.org.za /print.php?sid=78 (697 words)

	news - LONDON 2012: Ben Ainslie wins World Championship
		London 2012 Ambassador Ben Ainslie has become the first sailor in his class to win four consecutive world championship titles.
		Ainslie led the series at the end of each day and the final race was abandoned shortly after it had started leaving him in front of the other 97 competitors.
		The next major project for Ainslie is as back-up skipper for Team New Zealand's challenge for the America's cup.
	www.noticias.info /asp/PrintingVersionNot.asp?NOT=101127 (205 words)

	Archive of all Games sports news stories
		THE MEDAL that Ben Ainslie won in the Laser dinghy will mean gold in more ways than one to the 23-year-old Englishman.
		However, Ainslie's relaxed demeanour as he watched a video replay of the incident after the race showed how quietly confident he was.
		The lessons of Ben Ainslie versus Robert Scheidt the previous day were perhaps in their minds.
	www.times-olympics.co.uk /archive/sailings30o.html (2311 words)

	Scuttlebutt Interviews: Ben Ainslie, 3-Time Finn Gold Cup Champion
		Ben Ainslie, the 27-year old newly crowned Finn Gold Cup champion from Lymington, England, provides Scuttlebutt with some insight on his recent accomplishment and why UK Olympic sailing has lately been so in phase.
		After UK’s Ben Ainslie twice claimed the Laser World Championship, and earned silver and gold medals in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics, the timing seemed right for his transition into the America’s Cup arena.
		As for Ainslie, who says he is ready for another go at the America’s Cup after this summer, not even the temptations of Rio could take him off track in his drive toward the Olympics.
	www.sailingscuttlebutt.com /news/04/0223ainslie (1140 words)

	Concept2 Rowing Machines -> Rowing -> Ben Ainslie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ben Ainslie has spent a long time being described as the rising star of British sailing.
		Ben's Finn campaign started in the gym where he's been working hard on his weight gain.
		Things are starting to look bright for Ben's 2004 dream of another Olympic gold medal in Athens: the body weight and strength are rapidly increasing and aerobic fitness is improving all the time.
	www.concept2.co.uk /rowing/ben_ainslie_rya.php (697 words)

	Finn Gold Cup 2004 Rio
		The only race sailed today in the Finn Gold Cup in Rio de Janeiro saw another downwind comeback for Ben Ainslie (GBR), giving him a third place and moving him 18 points clear at the top of the results, ahead of Mateusz Kusznierewicz (POL), who is just one point ahead of David Burrows (IRL).
		Ainslie rounded about 14th and headed to the right on the run, where there looked to be more pressure.
		Ainslie commented on his plans for the final day, "Tomorrow will just be a matter of keeping an eye on Mateusz and David, and trying to stay ahead of them." The Pole also reflected on the final day, "Tomorrow obviously I will still try and win but it's not going to be easy."
	www.atividade.com.br /finn/report_gc_19_02_04.htm (929 words)

	Sailing news as it happens - Yachts and Yachting Online
		Series leader Ben Ainslie said, “In these conditions I was going to try to control Emilios [the only man who could beat him] from the start.” At the four minute signal, the two were locked together in their own match race.
		Ainslie played the shifts and looked ahead half way up the beat when the wind died again and the race officer admitted defeat and abandoned racing.
		Ben is allready a legend in sailing and he will probably be the biggest ever.
	www.yachtsandyachting.com /news/?article=19006 (1739 words)

	British Golden boy disqualified - [Sunday Herald]
		Ainslie was placed last and now languishes 19th overall in the 25-strong fleet on 35 points with nine races left.
		Competitors are allowed to discard their worst score in the 11-race series, but it leaves Ainslie with little margin for error in the rest of the regatta, starting with two more races today.
		Ainslie’s rival this time is Pol and’s Mateusz Kuz niere wicz, who won gold in the Finn class eight years ago.
	www.sundayherald.com /44149 (1232 words)

	An Olympic Gold for Ben Ainslie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Although the situation looked favourable for Ainslie going into the protest meeting it was four hours later before Ainslie could start celebrating his victory.
		Ben Ainslie has won a Gold Medal in the Laser Class.
		Ainslie and closest rival Robert Scheidt (BRA) had a tough head-to-head battle in the last race with a mark rounding incident resulting in a protest room decision.
	www.ybw.com /auto/newsdesk/20000829124018ybwnews.html (124 words)

	FINN GOLD CUP - Press Room - English
		Ben Ainslie and Sebastien Godefroid passed Mateusz and Andrew on the second beat.
		Ben Ainslie made the most of his 90 kg to finish second in front of Mateusz, Rafael Trujillo and Andrew Simpson.
		Ben Ainslie is conserving his early lead on the 90 boats, in front of Mateusz and Emilios Papathanasiou.
	www.eio.gr /finn2002/pressenglish.html (2906 words)

	Ben Ainslie wins Finn Gold Cup for the fourth time in a row
		Ben adds his fourth Finn world title to his Athens Olympic gold medal and a gold and silver in the Laser class.
		Ben has been doing well in his debut year on the international match racing circuit and the ease with which he can get back into the Finn and fleet racing shows a depth of skill that is reassuring.
		Ben Ainlsie, at the top of the leaderboard at that stage said that in the conditions he was “going to try to control Emilios Papathanasiou of Greece (the only man who could beat him) from the start.”
	www.emiratesteamnz.com /news/050919_01.aspx (626 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Olympics 2004 \| Sailing \| Ainslie clinches Finn title
		Ben Ainslie joined Rodney Pattison as Britain's most successful Olympic yachtsman by taking gold in the Finn class in Athens on Saturday.
		Ainslie added gold to the silver and gold medals he won in the Laser class in 1996 and 2000.
		Ainslie ended the competition with 38 points, 13 ahead of Trujillo.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/olympics_2004/sailing/3585970.stm (361 words)

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		Ben Ainslie finished third and Iain Percy fourth.
		Till this afternoon, everything was clear for the British Ben Ainslie and German Jochen Schumann, assured to meet itself encounter during finale.
		Good start for match race specialist Jochen Schuman, and surprising score for the British Ben Aisnlie: both are leading their group after the first three races.
	www.chez.com /hauraki/LatestNews/CoppaCampioni-LN.htm (486 words)

	3rd Finn European title for Ben Ainslie
		Olympic Champion Ben Ainslie has claimed his third European crown, while Australia's sailors Josh Beaver and double Olympian Anthony Nossiter finished 24th and 29th respectively.
		With 5 races’ win and a total score of 8 points, Ben Ainslie is adding 1 more Finn trophy to his extensive collection.
		Finn records prove that Ben’s outstanding performance have been matched in the past: Andre Nelis (BEL) won 8 races out of 10 in the 1957 Europeans, in 1981 Lasse Hjortnaes won all of the 5 races sailed.
	www.qldyachting.org.au /?Page=18101 (357 words)

	BBC SPORT \| TV/Radio Listings \| Grandstand \| Golden future for Britain's sailors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The manner in which Ainslie won his gold certainly proves that here is a man sailing on a different level to his competitors.
		Luck is a word that crops up again and again in Ainslie interviews, and if we were to believe him then he has probably had more good fortune than any man alive.
		Also confirmed as joining Ainslie in Athens will be Robertson and her Yngling crew, Iain Percy and Steve Mitchell (Star), Chris Draper and Simon Hiscocks (49er), Nick Dempsey (windsurfer), Nick Rogers and Joe Glanfield (470), Leigh McMillan and Mark Bulkeley (Tornado).
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/tv_and_radio/grandstand/3144022.stm (623 words)

	Sailing Anarchy Forums > Ben Ainslie in TNZ.
		Jun 10 2004, 08:30 AM What is the story here, not disputing Ainslie's skill, but where is he supposed to go on the boat.
		Jun 11 2004, 03:53 AM Ainslie may be the talent of this generation.
		Pepper and Barker are wonderful sailors but Ainslie deserves an chance to helm a big time push for the cup.
	www.sailinganarchy.com /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t5241.html (2234 words)

	British Medallists - Ben Ainslie
		Ben Ainslie become Britain’s most successful Olympic yachtsman equaling Rodney Patterson by taking the Gold medal in Athens on Saturday.
		Already ensured of a silver Medal, Ainslie had to finish within 15 places of Spain’s Rafael Trujello.
		Ainslie finished the line in 14 th place behind the Spaniard, and added the gold medal to his collection of the silver and gold medals he had already won in the Olympic Games of 1996 and 2000.
	www.britain.tv /olympics/olympic_news_events_benainslie.shtml (103 words)

	Two more gold medals for Team GBR - 14th August 2005 SportFocus news
		Ben Ainslie has claimed his third European Finn title by winning the 2005 Finn European Championship with an impressive eight points.
		Ainslie has dominated the competition for most of the regatta and earned more first place finishes than any other sailor at the event.
		Stevie Morrison and Ben Rhodes went into the final in gold medal position and would have won the event but because of the grand final system all of our points were wiped clean and they ended up in seventh overall.
	www.sportfocus.com /newspub/story.cfm?id=15173 (348 words)

	Sailing News of The Regatta Sailing Community
		Marstrand, Sweden - That Ben Ainslie from Great Britain would become European Champion, and Mateusz Kusznierewicz from Poland would be the runner up was already settled before the eighth and final race in the Finn European Championship in Marstrand.
		This was because Ainslie had already successfully defended his European title with a day to spare and had no need to sail the final race.
		Ainslie sailed a perfect day crossing the line first in both races in winds varying from 15-16 knots on the first race and 12-14 in the second.
	www.sailing1st.com /news.asp?classid=5 (2047 words)

	BT British Nautical Awards; Ben Ainslie Yachtsman of the Year
		Ben Ainslie won the coveted BT YJA Yachtsman of the Year award and was also made WS Atkins Inshore Yachtsman of the Year for his formidable achievements in the Laser class.
		Ainslie from Lymington has already won an Olympic silver medal in this class and is currently World, European, National, Asia-Pacific and Pre-Olympic Champion and ranked top in the ISAF Laser World Rankings.
		The results of the ten categories in the BT British Nautical Awards were announced at the gala Millennium Boat Show Ball, held at the Hilton Hotel on London's Park Lane last night.
	www.ybw.com /auto/newsdesk/20000008164445ywnews.html (1132 words)

	Ben Ainslie has gone into the record books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ben Ainslie has gone into the record books
		Ben Ainslie has gone into the record books once again winning his fourth consecutive Finn World championships, Sailing in Moscow Ben beat of the challenge of 97 fellow Finn sailors to lift the Gold cup and making him one of the best Finn sailors of all time.
		Ben Ainslie started in the Finn class in march 2002.
	nsweb.itinfo.dk /uk/news1095.asp (118 words)

	sail-world.com -- Ben Ainslie reflects on Finn Gold Cup wins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Finn Gold Cup is a small trophy with a heavyweight history and Ben Ainslie has enhanced its lustre in becoming its first four-time winner since it was first competed for in 1956.
		Ainslie likes to put in at least a week's training at a championship venue, will always take his own boat and will have researched the conditions.
		Emilios Papathanasiou, the three-time third-placed Gold Cup competitor, proved to be Ainslie's stiffest competition but the Greek had benefited from being allowed to take his boat, rather than using supplied equipment, and had spent time practising with the Russians.
	www.sail-world.com /news.cfm?Nid=19194&RequestTimeOut=180 (916 words)

	Ben Ainslie (1977-), Sailor
		In his first year of competing in the Finn class he broke all records by becoming both European Champion and World Champion, and was rewarded for his efforts by being voted 2002 ISAF World Sailor of the Year.
		In 2003 Ainslie won the Finn World Championships in Cadiz, Spain and as a result was selected for the British team for Athens.
		He won the Gold medal for yachting in the Athens 2004 Olympics in the men's Finn class.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp68506 (137 words)

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