Australian Institute of Sport athletes Nina Curtis and Olivia Price have teamed up with  Nicky Souter and Laura Baldwin (NSW Institute of Sport)to claim bronze at the 2010 ISAF Women’s Match Racing World Championship in Rhode Island, in the United States.

The Australian crew skippered by Souter defeated Claire Leroy’s French crew to win two out of three races to finish third.

’The petite final against the French went right down to the wire,’ said Souter.

’Leroy won the first race and we fought back well to win the next two. All our semi and petite final races were close with the lead changing in every race, the level of competition was extremely high this year, and we’re pretty happy with our overall result.’ 

The Australian crew has achieved three consecutive medal places in their last three events after winning gold at the ISAF World Cup in Weymouth in the United Kingdom and the Buddy Melges Challenge in Wisconsin United States. 

In other results for AIS athletes, Katie Spithill, Jessica Eastwell, Angela Farrell combined with Stacey Jackson (NSWIS) to finish in eighth place at the regatta.