Australian Sailing hands top role to Trim man

Trim man Ken Lynch has been appointed the National Performance Pathway manager for Australian Sailing and he will take up the role from the end of June.

Lynch will be charged with leading the performance pathway programmes and initiatives across the Australian Sailing High Performance system and will take charge of the National Performance Pathway and State Sailing Pathway Programmes, with an aim to build a talent pool of sailors and coaches to deliver repeatable success (on and off the water) towards the LA 2028 Olympics and onto what Australia hope will be a home Olympics in 2032.

Before his time at High Performance NZ, Lynch had also spent time as the Head of Talent Development and Personal Performance manager at the Irish Institute of Sport and the Olympic Team manager at London 2012 for Triathlon Ireland.

“I am really excited to be a part of the team at Australian Sailing,” said Lynch at the announcement. “Opportunities like this don’t come along very often so it was fantastic to be offered the role and to have the ability to work with great people in a proven performance program.

“The vision, commitment and approach to repeatable success shown by the organisation provides a good launch pad for the area and the people involved. I’m looking forward to leading and being a part of that,” said Lynch who was also High Performance Athlete Development manager across the New Zealand sport system for eight years before taking up this new role.

Sailing is now well placed to maintain its place as one of the most successful Olympic sports in recent times. With 13 Australian Sailing Team athletes set to compete for Gold in Tokyo this July, the next generation of sailing champions now have a clear pathway to glory in Paris 2024 and beyond.