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YJA awards celebrate 'outstanding British sailing talent'

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May 2025

lan Williams, who made history after securing an unprecedented eighth World Match Racing Tour title, has been named the Yachting Journalists' Association's (YJA) 2024 Yachtsman of the Year.

YJA awards celebrate 'outstanding British sailing talent'

Williams is one of Britain's most successful yacht racers having left the legal profession for full-time professional sailing in April 2005.

He first won the World Match Racing Tour title in 2007 before retaining the title a further seven times.

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