Mike Golding will be taking Britain’s Olympic sailing stars to the opening of the PSP Southampton Boat Show onboard ECOVER 3, on Friday 12th September at 10am.

Gold medal winners Ben Ainslie, Paul Goodison, Iain Percy, Andrew Simpson, Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb and Pippa Wilson, who are part of Skandia Team GBR, will arrive, with their fellow Olympic team members, at the Show onboard Mike's Vendee Globe boat and make their way  to the Main Stage to officially open the Show at 11am.

All 11 boats  and 18 sailors who went to Qingdao qualified for their respective medal races and came home with a total medal count of four gold, one silver and one bronze.  The silver medal was brought home by Nick Rogers and Joe Glanfield in the men’s 470 and the bronze went to Bryony Shaw for the women’s RS:X windsurfing.

"It is a great honour to have been asked by Team GBR to do this. The Team GBR medal haul has yet again shown that Great Britain really does 'rule the waves', and I am very proud to be involved in this small way," commented Golding.

For further information on the PSP Southampton Boat Show, please visit: www.southamptonboatshow.com