Bryony Shaw in the 2012 Olympic Parade in Weymouth & Portland | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Bryony Elisabeth Shaw |
| Born | 28 April 1983 (age 41) Wandsworth |
Bryony Elisabeth Shaw (born 28 April 1983 in 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.
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.
- 2008 Summer Olympic regatta
| Points | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Race | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Medal race | Net | Position |
| 4 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 45 | |||
See also
- Nick Dempsey, another Olympic windsurfer from Weymouth
References
- ^ "Bryony Shaw". Sailing.org. World Sailing. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
- ^ "Beijing 2008 Olympics - RS:X - Women - Overall Results". Sailing.org. ISAF. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2008.
External links
- Bryony Shaw at World Sailing
- Bryony Shaw at Olympics.com
- Bryony Shaw at Olympedia (archive)
- Bryony Shaw at Team GB (archive)
- RYA profile
- Guardian July 2008 at the Wayback Machine (archived 7 March 2016)
- Gold at Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta in September 2007[permanent dead link]