| Volvo plays a key role in safeguarding the future of the sport with its sponsorship of the Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship – the annual gathering of the world’s finest young sailors. The Youth Worlds has established an impressive legacy and has an uncanny ability to give the sailing world a glimpse of its future stars.
In sailing, Volvo sees parallels with its own passion for safety, environmental care and quality. Teamwork, technology, tenacity and talent are all traits demanded in the harsh commercial environment in which Volvo competes, those self-same virtues demanded by sailors be it in the hostile habitat of the Southern Ocean or the combative climate of the Olympics.
Volvo is the title sponsor of the Volvo Ocean Race – the ultimate offshore adventure for elite sailors – the toughest, roughest race on earth, a 37,000nm, nine-month test of mental and physical endurance.
Team Volvo for Life, an excellence initiative promoted by Volvo Car UK has consistently delivered Olympic sailing champions, two team members, Shirley ROBERTSON and Ben AINSLIE, both ex-Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship medallists, have gone on to win five Olympic gold medals between them.
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