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Full name | Daniel Willcox | ||||||||||||||
Nationality | New Zealander | ||||||||||||||
Born | Takapuna, New Zealand | 8 June 1990||||||||||||||
Sailing career | |||||||||||||||
Class | 470 | ||||||||||||||
Club | Murrays Bay Sailing Club [1] | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Daniel Willcox (born 8 June 1990) is a New Zealand sailor.
Willcox was born in 1990 in Takapuna on Auckland's North Shore. [1] His father, Hamish Willcox, was a professional sailor who competed in the America's Cup and his sister, Anna Willcox-Silfverberg, competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in freestyle skiing. [2] [3]
He was a competitor in the 2016 470 World Championships in San Isidro, Buenos Aires where he won a silver medal. [4] Willcox competed at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics in the Men's 470 alongside Paul Snow-Hansen; they finished in tenth place. [1]
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