HEREFORD sailer Martin Wrigley gained a silver medal at the 420 Junior European Championships in Bulgaria.

Wrigley, who teamed with Marcus Tressler at the event in Bourgas, is now aiming to move into the 470 Olympic class.

"We decided not to go to Japan for the 420 Worlds as I really wanted to medal at the Junior Euros so I'm really happy," Wrigley told yachtsandyachting.com

Tressler, who is from Kettering, added: "We spent a lot of time doing international events over the summer to prepare for the Euros and that has really paid off.

"The wind conditions were 12 knots every day, same directions, same tactics and same everything.

"We also won a race, I think we won by about 50 seconds and that was a really nice feeling.

"However, I'm a little bit disappointed because we were in gold medal position going into the last day but we just lost out."

The British pair battled it out with Israelis Nitai Hasson and Tal Harari for the top honours.

Wrigley, who studied at Whitecross High School and Hereford Sixth Form College, said he was gutted to miss out on gold.

"We just had to put a boat between us and the Israeli but they beat us by about five boat lengths which was pretty hard," he said.