Emma Wilson (sailor)

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Emma Wilson
Emma Wilson Paris Olympics.jpg
Personal information
Born (1999-04-07) 7 April 1999 (age 25)
Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
Sailing career
Class(es) RS:X, IQFOiL, Techno 293
Medal record
Representing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Summer Olympics
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2020 Tokyo RS:X
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2024 Paris iQFoil
iQFoil World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2024 Lanzarote iQFoil
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2023 The Hague iQFoil
RS:X European Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2019 Palma RS:X
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Sopot RS:X
IQFoil European Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2022 Torbole iQFoil
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2023 Patras iQFoil
Youth Sailing World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2016 Auckland RS:X
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2017 SanyaRS:X
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2015 Langkawi RS:X
Updated on 3 August 2024

Emma Wilson (born 7 April 1999) is a British windsurfer who won a bronze medal in the RS:X event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She won the RS:X events at the Youth Sailing World Championships in 2016 and 2017, and won medals at the 2018 and 2019 RS:X European Championships, and the 2022 and 2023 IQFoil European Championships. She won her second Olympic bronze medal in the iQFoil at the 2024 Paris Games.

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Personal life

Emma Wilson was born on 7 April 1999 in Nottingham. [1] She grew up in Christchurch, Dorset. [1] [2] She is the daughter of Penny Wilson ( née Way), [3] who competed at the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics. [2] [4] Her older brother Dan is also a professional sailor. [3] When she was younger, Wilson played hockey at regional level in addition to sailing. [3]

Career

Wilson has trained alongside Bryony Shaw, who won bronze at the 2008 Summer Olympics. [1] [4] Aged 12, she won the U15 Techno 293 World Championships, [1] [5] and the U15 RS:X event. [5] In 2015, she came second at the RS:X event at the Youth Sailing World Championships. [1] [6] She later won the event in 2016, [1] [7] and 2017. [1] [8] She won the 2017/18 UK Windsurfing Association Windsurfer of the Year award. [9]

At the 2018 Sailing World Championships in Aarhus, Denmark, Wilson won the opening RS:X race by over a minute. [10] She eventually finished fourth at the event. [11] In the same year, she came 6th at the Sailing World Cup event in Enoshima, [4] and came third at the RS:X European Championships in Gdańsk, Poland. [12] She came third overall, and second European, at the 2019 RS:X European Championships in Palma de Mallorca, [13] and came fourth at the 2020 RS:X World Championships, 11 points behind third place. [14]

Wilson qualified to compete in the RS:X event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. [2] [11] [15] After the Olympics were postponed from 2020 to 2021, British Sailing confirmed that their squad selection were unchanged, and so Wilson was still selected for the Games. [16] She finished fourth in the Olympic test event in 2019. [11] [15]

At the Games, Wilson finished first, second and fourth in the three races on the second day, finishing the day second overall, tied on points with leader Charline Picon. [17] On the third day of racing at the Games, Wilson won two of the three races, and moved into first place overall. [18] After the fourth and final day of heats, Wilson was second behind China's Lu Yunxiu. [19] She eventually finished third in the event. [20]

In 2022, Wilson came second at the IQFoil European Championships, her first major event in the iQFoil class. [21] She won the 2023 Trofeo Princesa Sofía event, [22] and came third at the 2023 IQFoil European Championships. [23] Wilson also came third in the iQFoil event at the 2023 Sailing World Championships, which meant that Great Britain qualified a competitor for the event at the 2024 Summer Olympics. [24] Later in the year, Wilson was confirmed as Team GB's selection for the Games together with fellow surfer Ellie Aldridge who competes in the new Olympic sport of Formula Kite. [25] Wilson later took silver at the 2024 iQFoil World Championships, winning 15 of the 20 races in the competition [24] in Lanzarotte. There were four other British women windsurfers and the next highest placed was Islay Watson who was 20th. [26] Wilson won bronze medal in the IQFoil event at the 2024 Summer Olympics. [27] She was beaten by the Israeli Sharon Kantor and the Italian Marta Maggetti took the gold. [28] Wilson was very disappointed at the result, as a new format meant that although she had done very well in the competition, she had not won the gold medal, because of the final race. She told the press that she was probably done with windsurfing. [29]

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