Maggie Shea
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| Full name | Margaret Shea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | July 13, 1989 Wilmette, Illinois, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Class | 49er FX | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Kilroy Realty, Chicago Yacht Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Margaret "Maggie" Shea (born July 13, 1989) is an American sailor who is a Pan American Games medallist and a two-time medallist in the World Championships.[citation needed]
Career
[edit]After graduating from Connecticut College, where she led the Camels to a second-place finish in the 2011 ISCA Women's Finals,[1] Shea dedicated herself to professional sports, being one of the founders of the Epic Racing team, in the Match Race category. As a member of the team, she won a bronze medal at the 2014 World Championships.[2]
In 2019, Shea won the silver medal at the Pan American Games, in the 49er FX class. Her partner was her compatriot Stephanie Roble. The team was defeated by the Brazilian Olympic champion duo, Martine Grael and Kahena Kunze, who won nine of the twelve races. Much more balanced was against Argentina's Victoria Travascio and María Sol Branz, which ended with an advantage of one point less lost to the Americans after the Argentines were disqualified from the medal race.[3][4]
In 2020, Shea won her first major result at the international level, the bronze medal in the 49er & 49er FX World Championships of the 49er FX class, in Geelong, Australia. With this result, she and her partner Roble earned the right to represent the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Sperry Top-Sider/ICSA Women's FINALS | Spring 2011". May 24, 2011.
- ^ "Maggie Shea". ussailing.org. US Sailing. Retrieved February 17, 2021.
- ^ "Martine, campeã olímpica e filha de Torben Grael, conquista ouro no Pan" [Martine, Olympic champion and daughter of Torben Grael, wins gold at the Pan]. gauchazh.clicrbs.com.br (in Brazilian Portuguese). August 10, 2019. Retrieved February 17, 2021.
- ^ "RESULTADO GLOBAL DE FLOTA" [OVERALL FLEET RESULT] (PDF). lima2019.pe (in Spanish). Retrieved February 17, 2021.
SHEA Margaret
- ^ "US Team forming for Tokyo 2020". sailingscuttlebutt.com. Scuttlebutt Sailing News. February 15, 2020. Retrieved February 17, 2021.
External links
[edit]- Maggie Shea at World Sailing
- Maggie Shea at Olympics.com
- Maggie Shea at Olympedia
- Maggie Shea at Team USA (archive October 27, 2022)
- Maggie Shea at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
- Margaret Shea at the Lima 2019 Pan American Games
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- 1989 births
- Living people
- People from Wilmette, Illinois
- American female sailors (sport)
- Sailors at the 2020 Summer Olympics – 49er FX
- Olympic sailors for the United States
- 21st-century American sportswomen
- Sailors at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Sailors at the 2023 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in sailing
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States in sailing
- Connecticut College Camels sailors
- Sportspeople from Cook County, Illinois
- Sailors at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- American yacht racing biography stubs