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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.
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]
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. [25] Wilson later came third at the 2024 iQFoil World Championships, winning 15 of the 20 races in the competition. [24]
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