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{{short description|British windsurfer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2017}}
{{Infobox sailor
| image = Bryony Shaw - Olympic Parade - Weymouth & Portland.jpg
| caption = Bryony Shaw in the 2012 Olympic Parade in Weymouth & Portland
| full_name = Bryony Elisabeth Shaw
| birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|28 April 1983}}
| birth_place = [[Wandsworth]]
| show-medals = yes
| medaltemplates = 
{{MedalSport | [[Sailing (sport)|Sailing]]}}
{{MedalCountry|{{GBR2}}}}
{{MedalOlympic}}
{{MedalBronze|[[Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics|2008 Beijing]]|[[Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's sailboard|Sailboard]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}
{{MedalSilver|2013 [[Búzios]]| Women's [[RS:X]]}}
{{MedalSilver|2015 [[Muscat, Oman|Muscat]]| Women's [[RS:X]]}}
{{MedalSilver|2016 [[Eilat]]| Women's [[RS:X]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2015 [[Sicily]]| Women's [[RS:X]]}}
{{MedalSilver|2006 [[Alaçatı]]| Women's [[RS:X]]}}
{{MedalBronze|2012 [[Tel Aviv]]| Women's [[RS:X]]}}
}}

'''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 School|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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.sailing.org/sailor/bryony-shaw?ref=GBRBS1 |title=Bryony Shaw |website=Sailing.org |publisher=[[World Sailing]] |access-date=28 March 2022}}</ref>

==Windsurfing==
She won the bronze medal in the [[Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's sailboard|women's RS:X class at the 2008 Summer Olympics]], the first ever women's windsurfing medal for the [[Great Britain at the Olympics|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]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sailing.org/olympics/resultscentre.php?raceid=44 |title=Beijing 2008 Olympics – RS:X – Women – Overall Results |website=Sailing.org |publisher=[[International Sailing Federation|ISAF]] |access-date=20 August 2008 |archive-date=7 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107034059/http://www.sailing.org/olympics/resultscentre.php?raceid=44 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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==See also==
* [[Nick Dempsey]], another Olympic windsurfer from Weymouth

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{World Sailing|id=GBRBS1|www=bryony-shaw}}
* {{Olympics.com profile}}
* {{Olympedia}}
* {{Team GB}} ([https://web.archive.org/web/20100226065335/http://www.olympics.org.uk/beijing2008/AthleteProfile.aspx?id=6635 archive])
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080919131453/http://www.rya.org.uk/beijing2008/events/neilprydersxw/Pages/BryonyShaw.aspx RYA profile]
* {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307024839/http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2008/jul/27/olympicgames20085 |date=7 March 2016 |title=''Guardian'' July 2008}}
* [http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/search/display.var.1710273.0.weymouth_double_as_gb_make_clean_sweep.php Gold at Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta in September 2007]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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