 during the Olympic Parade in 2012 in Weymouth & Portland | |
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| Born | 29 April 1987 Worcestershire, England |
Alison Young (born 29 May 1987) [1] [2] is a British sailor. [3] She was the first British woman to be world champion in a solo Olympic dinghy class.
Young was born in Wolverhampton, England on 29 May 1987. She started sailing on a lake in the River Severn valley when she was nine at the Trimpley Sailing Club.
She competed in the Laser Radial class event at the 2012 Summer Olympics where she placed 5th. [4]
At the 2016 Laser World Championships, she won gold in the laser radial class [5] and in doing so became the first British woman to become world champion in a solo Olympic dinghy class. [6] Her best World Championship performance before this was 4th in 2012. [5]
Young competed at the Rio 2016 Olympics, finishing 8th overall. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the Women's Laser Radial class [7] [8] and she finished tenth.
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