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Bryony Shaw

Bryony Shaw in the 2012 Olympic Parade in Weymouth & Portland
Medal record
Representing  Great Britain
Sailing
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Beijing Sailboard
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2013 Búzios Women's RS:X
Silver medal – second place 2015 Muscat Women's RS:X
Silver medal – second place 2016 Eilat Women's RS:X
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Sicily Women's RS:X
Silver medal – second place 2006 Alaçatı Women's RS:X
Bronze medal – third place 2012 Tel Aviv Women's RS:X

Bryony Elisabeth Shaw (born 28 April 1983, Wandsworth) is a British Olympic windsurfer.

Early life

She first began windsurfing in the south of France in 1992. She attended Cheney Upper School near Headington in Oxford (where her father had been teaching at Oxford Brookes University), gaining A levels in art, maths, and biology. She had windsurfed on Farmoor Reservoir to the west of Oxford. She went to Cardiff University to study architecture, and she stayed for a year before committing to windsurfing full time in 2005.[1]

Windsurfing

She won the bronze medal in the women's RS:X class at the 2008 Summer Olympics, the first ever women's windsurfing medal for the British Olympic team. She trains at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy.

Shaw won silver at the 2013, 2015, and 2016 RS:X World Championships, and 5th at the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships.[2]

2008 Summer Olympic regatta
Points
Race 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Medal race Net Position
4 3 11 6 OCS 6 5 3 1 2 2 45 3

See also

References

  1. ^ "Bryony Shaw, Sailor biography". World Sailing. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  2. ^ "RS:X - Women - Overall Results". Beijing Olympics 2008. ISAF. Retrieved 20 August 2008.
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