Emily Nagel, the Bermuda sailor, will be among the teams bidding for glory at the Women’s World Match Racing Championship that gets under way in Cork, Ireland, today.

The 20-year-old will serve as trimmer and tactician on Team Vose-Glamour Racing.

The team are made up entirely of University of Southampton students who were chosen in February to represent Great Britain at the FISU University Match Racing Worlds.

Nagel and her team-mates have also been invited to join the Women’s Match Racing World Series this summer.

“The ISAF Worlds is the first event of the series and we will be going on to race in the various other events of the series this summer such as the Golfe Du Morbihan in France at the end of July with hopes of competing in the final in Busan, Korea, this October,” Nagel said. “Two weeks ago we qualified for the Royal Southern Cup Grade 2 event in Southampton, which will take place from June 12 to 15, where we will be racing against the likes of Ian Williams [multiple Alpari World Match Racing Tour champion].”

Team Vose-Glamour are helmed by Annabel Vose, who participated in the 2008 RenRe Junior Gold Cup in Bermuda.

Nagel is relatively new to the match-racing format but is proving to be a fast learner. “I only started match racing this past summer when the yacht club hosted a match-racing clinic,” she said. “I went on to sail with the Saints twins at the RYA Youth Championships in October where we placed third. Since then I have gone on to compete at multiple competitions in the UK with my university teams, including the University Team Racing, Match Racing and Yachting Nationals.”

The Women’s World Championship is being hosted by the Royal Cork Yacht Club in conjunction with the International Sailing Federation and will continue until Sunday. The event, to be contested on the River Lee, will feature the world’s top match racers, who battle it out to claim the prestigious title and a share of the prize money on offer.

Teams will compete in the J80 Keelboat.