Giles Scott
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| Nationality |  Great Britain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 June 1987 Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England, UK | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Class | Finn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Giles Scott (born 23 June 1987) is a British competitive sailor and four-time Finn Gold Cup winner who won the gold medal for Team GB in the Finn Class at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.[1][2] He is also involved in an America's Cup campaign with Ben Ainslie Racing.[3]
Career
World Championships titles
- 1st 2005 ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships - Laser
- 1st 2008 Finn Junior World Championship
- 1st 2011 Finn World Championship
- 1st 2014 Finn World Championship
- 1st 2015 Finn World Championship
- 1st 2016 Finn World Championship
European Championships titles
- 1st 2011 Finn European Championships
- 1st 2014 Finn European Championships
Olympic titles
References
- ^ Scofield, Daniel (14 August 2016). "Giles Scott secures sailing Olympic gold in Finn class, continuing Britain's glorious tradition". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
- ^ "Rio 2016: Eight sailors named in Team GB Rio Olympic squad". BBC; retrieved 9 September 2015
- ^ "Ben Ainslie Racing - Giles Scott (GBR)". Ben Ainslie Racing; retrieved 9 September 2015
- ^ "Rio Olympics 2016: Giles Scott guaranteed gold in Finn class". BBC Sport. 14 August 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
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Categories:
- Living people
- 1987 births
- People from Huntingdon
- People from Cambridgeshire
- Male sailors (sport)
- British people of English descent
- British sailors (sport)
- English sailors (sport)
- English Olympic medallists
- Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic medalists in sailing
- Olympic sailors of Great Britain
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Sailors at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Finn
- Extreme Sailing Series sailors
- America's Cup sailors
- World champions in the Finn
- World champions in sailing for Great Britain