Barbara Kendall

Barbara Kendall

Personal information
Born	30 August 1967
Medal record Women's Sailing Representing New Zealand Olympic Games 1992 Barcelona Sailboard (Lechner) 1996 Atlanta Sailboard 2000 Sydney Sailboard

Barbara Kendall, MBE (born 30 August 1967 in Papakura) is a boardsailor from New Zealand. Kendall was raised at Bucklands Beach and attended Macleans College. She won a gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, silver medal in 1996 (in Atlanta, Georgia), and a bronze medal in 2000 (in Sydney) Kendall finished 5th at the 2004 Games in Athens and sixth at the 2008 Games in Beijing. She is the first, and as of 2008, only woman from New Zealand to compete at 5 Olympic Games.

Kendall was the Oceania athletes' representative on the International Olympic Committee from 2005 to 2008, having replaced Susie O'Neill who resigned in 2005 (Kendall was the athlete from the same continent who had received the next highest number of votes for the commission), and was on the New Zealand Olympic Committee Athletes Commission until 2008. She was elected an IOC member in July 2011 and now sits on the IOC Athletes Commission, Woman and Sport Commission and Sport and the Environment Commission.

Barbara Kendall's borther, Bruce is also an Olympic Gold medallist. They are the only brother and sister to have achieved this feat for New Zealand.

Kendall officially retired from competitive board sailing in May 2010.

Personal

Kendall is married with 2 children.

In 2009 she was a contestant in the New Zealand version of Dancing With The Stars. Partnered with Jonny Williams, she reached the finals and finished second to Television personality, Tamati Coffey. hi a dog went poo here

References

• Biography at New Zealand Olympic Committee
• Biography at International Olympic Committee