Bryony Shaw

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Bryony Shaw
Bryony Shaw - Olympic Parade - Weymouth & Portland.jpg
Bryony Shaw in the 2012 Olympic Parade in Weymouth & Portland
Personal information
Full nameBryony Elisabeth Shaw
Born28 April 1983 (1983-04-28) (age 41)
Wandsworth
Medal record
Sailing
Representing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2008 Beijing Sailboard
World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2013 Búzios Women's RS:X
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2015 Muscat Women's RS:X
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2016 Eilat Women's RS:X
European Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2015 Sicily Women's RS:X
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2006 Alaçatı Women's RS:X
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2012 Tel Aviv Women's RS:X

Bryony Elisabeth Shaw (born 28 April 1983 in Wandsworth) is a British Olympic windsurfer.

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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
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43116OCS65312245 Bronze medal icon.svg

See also

References

  1. "Bryony Shaw". Sailing.org. World Sailing . Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  2. "Beijing 2008 Olympics – RS:X – Women – Overall Results". Sailing.org. ISAF. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2008.