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By the end of 2019, two sports had confirmed the teams who were to represent Great Britain in the Tokyo 2020 Games. On the 1st of October, Tom Squires was announced as part of a 12-strong British Sailing team. Squires will represent Team GB in the male RS:X windsurfing competition. With this confirmation, Squires and his teammates can set their sails in the direction of Tokyo 2021.
Squires, from landlocked Oxford, was bitten by the windsurfing bug on a family holiday in Cornwall at the age of 11, when Squires’ father bought an old windsurf board and rig, and let his son have a go. He enjoyed it so much that on their return to Oxford they immediately signed up to the nearest Royal Yacht Association Windsurfing course. The rest is history. Squires has claimed the prestigious Princess Sofia Trophy in 2016 as part of the British Sailing Team’s windsurfing group and despite his relatively late start to sailing continues to push hard for results spending all his time on a board out on the water. That same year, Squires was a training partner for multi-Olympic medallist Nick Dempsey in the build up to the Rio 2016 Games. From the Weymouth and Portland Sailing Academy, where Squires has been training since, he watched his fellow teammate win Silver for Great Britain.
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By the end of 2019, two sports had confirmed the teams who were to represent Great Britain in the Tokyo 2020 Games. On the 1st of October, Tom Squires was announced as part of a 12-strong British Sailing team. Squires will represent Team GB in the male RS:X windsurfing competition. With this confirmation, Squires and his teammates can set their sails in the direction of Tokyo 2021.<br /> Squires, from landlocked Oxford, was bitten by the windsurfing bug on a family holiday in Cornwall at the age of 11, when Squires’ father bought an old windsurf board and rig, and let his son have a go. He enjoyed it so much that on their return to Oxford they immediately signed up to the nearest Royal Yacht Association Windsurfing course. The rest is history. Squires has claimed the prestigious Princess Sofia Trophy in 2016 as part of the British Sailing Team’s windsurfing group and despite his relatively late start to sailing continues to push hard for results spending all his time on a board out on the water. That same year, Squires was a training partner for multi-Olympic medallist Nick Dempsey in the build up to the Rio 2016 Games. From the Weymouth and Portland Sailing Academy, where Squires has been training since, he watched his fellow teammate win Silver for Great Britain.