Polly Powrie
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Full name | Olivia Elizabeth Powrie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Auckland, New Zealand | 9 December 1987||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Website | teamjollyracing.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Sailing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Partner | Jo Aleh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Class(es) | 420, 470 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coach | Nathan Handley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Olivia Elizabeth "Polly" Powrie MNZM (born 9 December 1987) is a New Zealand sailor. She has won Olympic and world championship titles in the 470 class, and is also a former 420 world champion.
Powrie and her sailing partner Jo Aleh, who were known as "Team Jolly",[1] won the gold medal in the 470 class at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[2] In August 2013, exactly a year after winning their Olympic gold medal, Aleh and Powrie won the world title at the 2013 470 World Championships in La Rochelle, France.[3] She and Aleh were named ISAF Female Sailor of the Year, the first New Zealand women to win that award.[4]
Powrie is a graduate of St Cuthbert's College, Auckland.[5]
In the 2013 New Year Honours, Powrie was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to sailing.[6]
Powrie announced her retirement from Olympic sailing on 6 January 2017.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Kiwi yachting star Polly Powrie retires from Olympic sailing". Stuff. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- ^ "Kiwi sailors pulverise field to claim gold". Television New Zealand. 11 August 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
- ^ "NZ yachties add world title to Olympic gold". Stuff.co.nz. 11 August 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
- ^ "Aleh and Powrie named 2013 ISAF Female Sailor of the Year". Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- ^ "St Cuthbert's Olympians". Stuff.co.nz. 27 June 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
- ^ "New Year honours list 2013". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
External links
- NZLOP1 at World Sailing
- Olivia Powrie at London2012.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2012-08-08)
- Olivia Powrie at the Yachting NZ website at the Wayback Machine (archived 2012-08-09)
- Olivia Powrie at Olympics.com
- Polly Powrie at the New Zealand Olympic Committee
- Polly Powrie at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- 1987 births
- 420 class world champions
- 470 class world champions
- ISAF World Sailor of the Year (female)
- Living people
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit
- New Zealand female sailors (sport)
- New Zealand sportswomen
- Olympic gold medalists for New Zealand in sailing
- Olympic silver medalists for New Zealand
- Olympic sailors of New Zealand
- People educated at St Cuthbert's College, Auckland
- Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – 470
- Sailors at the 2016 Summer Olympics – 470
- Sportspeople from Auckland
- World champions in sailing for New Zealand
- New Zealand Olympic medalist stubs
- New Zealand yacht racing biography stubs