Bryony Shaw
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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.[1]
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.[2]
- 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 | 3 | ||
See also
- Nick Dempsey, another Olympic windsurfer from Weymouth
References
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External links
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- 1983 births
- Living people
- English female sailors (sport)
- English windsurfers
- Olympic sailors for Great Britain
- Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic medalists in sailing
- Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – RS:X
- Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – RS:X
- Sailors at the 2016 Summer Olympics – RS:X
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Alumni of Cardiff University
- People educated at Cheney School
- Sportspeople from Weymouth
- Female windsurfers
- 21st-century English sportswomen