 Celebrating his olympic silver medal, Marseille 2024 | |||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 October 2003 Sydney, Australia | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Sailing | ||||||||||||||
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Grae Morris (born 16 October 2003) is an Australian sailor. [1] He competed in the IQFoil event at the 2024 Summer Olympics, where he won the silver medal. [2]
Morris grew up in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. His father, Brett Morris, was a former national windsurfing champion. By the age of 11, he was competing at Formula and Slalom events across Australia, transitioning to the foil discipline at age 14. He combined rowing with playing rugby as a full-back whilst attending Cranbrook School. [3] [4]
In 2023, Morris earned Australia a quota spot for the IQFoil event at the 2024 Olympic Games after his performance at the Sailing World Championships in The Hague, [3] alongside finishing in fourth place at an Olympic test event in Marseille. He crowdfunded almost $10,000 to support his Olympic attempt. [4] He won the 13-race qualifying series, advancing him directly through the final three, and finished second in the final race behind Israel's Tom Reuveny. [5]
Gal Fridman is an Israeli windsurfer and Israel's first Olympic gold medalist. Fridman won a Bronze Medal in the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics, and a gold medal in the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics. He is the first of two Israelis athletes to win two Olympic Medals, and the first Olympic Gold medalist in Israeli history. His first name, Gal, means "wave" in Hebrew.
Shahar Tzuberi is an Israeli windsurfer and Olympic bronze medalist, surfing in the "Neil Pryde" RS:X discipline. He is a nephew of Gad Tsobari, the 1972 Olympic wrestler who escaped from Arab terrorists during the Munich massacre. He is a three-time Olympian.
Michael William "Gebi" Gebhardt is a former professional and Olympic windsurfer from the United States, who competed in five consecutive Summer Olympics, in the Olympic sailing discipline/event of windsurfing. He was born in Columbus, Ohio.
Paweł Aleksander Maria Tarnowski is a Polish sailor, son of Jacek Tarnowski, and Monika Wanicka. Tarnowski already competed at the top-level when he was a teenager, becoming a multiple medal winner in Junior World Championships. In 2011 and 2012, he won a gold medal at the RS:X Junior World Championships, and he won medals in European Champion. In first he started in classes Techno 293 class and then the RS:X class, (including in a category age under 17 and under 21 years of age. He competed in the 2024 Olympics in the iQfoil class and came 10th.
Emma Wilson 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.
Helen E. "Penny" Wilson is a British former windsurfer, who won multiple Windsurfing World Championships events. She competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics coming 6th and the 1996 Summer Olympics coming 7th.
Kiran Badloe is a Dutch windsurfer. He won the gold medal in the men's event at the 2019 RS:X World Championships and 2020 RS:X World Championships.
Finn Hawkins is a British windsurfer. He won a bronze medal at the 2018 World U21 Sailing Championships in Liepāja and a bronze medal, and Team GB's first, at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires. He was subsequently a nominee for the UK Windsurfing Association's 2018 Windsurfer of the Year.
Matthew James Barton is a British windsurfer. He competes in windsurfing in the IQFoil class and won silver in the 2021 IQFoil World Championships.
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The men's iQFoil competition at the 2024 Summer Olympics was the men's windsurfer event and was held in Marseille, France, from 29 July to 2 August 2024. It is the first men's windsurfing competition to use the iQFoil craft, which replaces the RS:X vessels that had been used in the previous four Olympics.
The women's iQFoil competition at the 2024 Summer Olympics was the women's windsurfer event and was held in Marseille, France, from 29 July to 2 August 2024. It was the first women's windsurfing competition at the Olympics to use the iQFoil board, which replaced the RS:X boards that had been used in the previous four Olympics.
Hélène Noesmoen is a French windsurfer who competes in the IQFoil class. She won the women's events at the 2021 IQFoil World Championships and the 2020, 2021 and 2022 IQFoil European Championships. Noesmoen also won the RS:X event at the 2018 Sailing World Cup in Miami, and multiple junior world championships.
Mateus Ghannam Isaac is a Brazilian windsurfer. He has six titles in World Tour championships in the IQFoil class, and was in the lead in the world rankings in 2022.
Sharon Kantor is an Israeli world champion and Olympic windsurfer. Competing in the IQFoil class, she won the silver medal at the 2023 European Championships, and the gold medal at the 2024 World Championships. Representing Israel at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Kantor won the silver medal in the Women's IQ Foil in Marseille, France.
Breiana Whitehead is an Olympic kitesurfer from Australia. She was the first athlete selected for the Australian team for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
Merve Vatan is a Turkish sailor competing in the windsurfing class IQFoil. She qualified to participate at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, France.
Marta Maggetti is an Italian windsurfer who sailed in the RS:X class and then later the iQFoil windsurfer class. She was fourth in the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 on a windsurfer and in 2022 she won the IQFoil World Championship. She won a gold medal in the 2024 Paris Olympics
Islay Watson is a Scottish female windsurfer. She won two silver medals at the IQFoil European Championships in 2020 and 2021.
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