Three of the sailors to be featured in this week’s Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series Bermuda have been nominated for the 2015 ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Award.

Peter Burling and Blair Tuke, of Emirates Team New Zealand, and Giles Scott, from Land Rover BAR, are on the shortlist of nominees for the award.

A phenomenal run of 20 consecutive victories in the double-handed 49er Skiff, including victories at the Aquece Rio, Olympic test event, ISAF Sailing World Cup Hyeres and Weymouth and Portland as well as Trofeo Princesa Sofia, makes Burling and Tuke strong contenders.

Burling also won the Moth World Championships, while Tuke was sixth.

Alongside their Olympic campaign the pair have become an integral part of Team New Zealand, who they helped guide to victory at the second leg of the World Series in Gothenburg to give their team the lead of the series.

“Obviously, we are really happy to be honoured with another nomination this year,” Burling said. “We are up against a highly talented field of sailors, so winning the award is never easy.”

Scott, meanwhile, is on an impressive winning streak of his own.

The Land Rover BAR grinder and tactician has dominated in the Finn class for the past two years and remains undefeated since October 2013.

He has won the last two Olympic test events, three Sailing World Cup events and the ISAF Worlds in Santander, in between competing in America’s Cup racing.

Scott helped BAR win the first leg of the World Series in Portsmouth.

Also among the nominees is Ian Williams, the five-times World Match Racing Tour winner and 2006 Argo Group Gold Cup champion.

The match race specialist, who reached the quarter-finals at last week’s Gold Cup with Team GAC Pindar, won a record fifth World Match Racing Tour title last year, surpassing the likes of Sir Russell Coutts, Peter Gilmour and Ed Baird.

There are two awards up for grabs, one for the top women’s sailor and crew, and one for the top men’s sailor and crew. ISAF Member National Authorities will select the winners by voting before the event, and on the night of the awards.

Each winner will be presented with the ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Award Trophy, and a Rolex timepiece at the award ceremony on November 10 in Sanya, China.