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{{short description|Australian sailor}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Use Australian English|date=February 2014}}
{{Infobox sailor
| image          = Nathan Wilmot.jpg
| caption        = Wilmot in 2008
| full_name      = Nathan James Wilmot
| nickname       = 
| nationality    = 
| birth_date     = {{Birth-date and age|13 December 1979}}
| birth_place    = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
| height         = 
| weight         = 
| classes        = [[470 (dinghy)|Men's 470]], [[420 (dinghy)|Men's 420]]
| club           = 
| collegeteam    = 
| coach          = 
| show-medals    = yes
| medaltemplates = 
{{MedalSport|Men's [[sailing (sport)|sailing]]}}
{{MedalCountry|{{AUS}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Sailing at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]}}
 {{MedalGold|[[Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics|2008 Beijing]]|[[Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 470 class|Men's 470]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[470 World Championships]]}}
 {{MedalBronze|2001 Koper|Men's 470}}
 {{MedalSilver|[[2003 ISAF Sailing World Championships|2003 Cádiz]]|Men's 470}}
 {{MedalGold|2004 Zadar|Men's 470}}
 {{MedalGold|2005 San Francisco|Men's 470}}
 {{MedalSilver|2006 Rizhao|Men's 470}}
 {{MedalGold|[[2007 ISAF Sailing World Championships|2007 Cascais]]|Men's 470}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[420 World Championships]]}}
 {{MedalGold|2004 Melbourne|Men's 420}}
}}

'''Nathan James Wilmot''' (born 13 December 1979) is a sailor, and a member of the Australian [[sailing (sport)|sailing]] team. He has won five world titles along with teammate [[Malcolm Page (sailor)|Malcolm Page]] in the [[470 (dinghy)|470]] class. They also won the Olympic test event in [[Qingdao]] in 2007 and were considered favourites to win the 470 event at the [[2008 Summer Olympics]].

In the Beijing Olympic games they won convincingly on points leading into the medal race which they only had to finish to win first place. They won the finale race which secured them Olympic gold. They have been now classified as the most successful 470 competitors in history.

Although successful in the dinghy classes, he is an established ocean-racing yachtsman.

He was an [[Australian Institute of Sport]] scholarship holder.<ref>[http://www.ausport.gov.au/ais/history/achievements/olympics AIS at the Olympics] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606223207/http://www.ausport.gov.au/ais/history/achievements/olympics |date=6 June 2011 }}</ref>		

Wilmot comes from a sailing family. His father competed at the [[1984 Summer Olympics]] and his uncle at the [[1988 Summer Olympics]]. Uncle Hugh Treharne was tactician on the America's Cup syndicate, Australia II in 1983.

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{World Sailing|id=AUSNW|www=nathan-wilmot}}
* {{Olympics.com|nathan-wilmot|org_archive=20190831123330}}
* {{AOC profile|nathan-wilmot}}
* {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080723163825/http://www.olympics.com.au/Athletes/TheTeam/tabid/343/Athletes/TheTeam/tabid/344/Default.aspx?cId=14335&teamId=18 |title=2008 Australian Olympic Team: Nathan Wilmot}}
* {{SR/Olympics|wi/nathan-wilmot-1|archive=20161204045655}}

{{Footer Olympic Champions Men's 470}}
{{Footer World Champions Men's 470}}
{{Footer World Champions Men's 420}}

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[[Category:1979 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Australian Institute of Sport sailors]]
[[Category:Australian male sailors (sport)]]
[[Category:Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – 470]]
[[Category:Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – 470]]
[[Category:Olympic sailors for Australia]]
[[Category:Olympic gold medalists for Australia]]
[[Category:Olympic medalists in sailing]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Extreme Sailing Series sailors]]
[[Category:420 class world champions]]
[[Category:World champions in sailing for Australia]]
[[Category:470 class world champions]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia]]
[[Category:Sailors (sport) from Sydney]]
[[Category:Sportsmen from New South Wales]]


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