Mike Leigh (sailor)

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Mike Leigh
Personal information
Full nameMichael Leigh
Nickname(s)Clubber
NationalityFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Born (1984-11-25) 25 November 1984 (age 38)
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
Height1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)
Weight80 kg (176 lb)
Sailing career
Class(es) Dinghy
Club Royal Vancouver Yacht Club [1]
CoachJoshua Chant [1]

Michael Leigh (born 25 November 1984) is a Canadian sailor, who specialized in one-person (Laser) and two-person dinghy (470) classes. [1] [2] Representing Canada in two editions of the Olympic Games, he finished ninth in the Laser class at Beijing 2008, and then twenty-fifth in the 470 class at London 2012 with his partner Luke Ramsay. Leigh has also been training throughout his sailing career for the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club under his Australian-born personal coach Joshua Chant. [1] [3]

Leigh made his Olympic debut at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he sailed into the ninth position in the men's Laser class with a grade of 109, missing out of the medal podium by 34 net points and surpassing Norway's Kristian Ruth by a narrow, ten-point gap based on the total score. [4]

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Leigh teamed up with skipper Luke Ramsay to challenge the men's 470 class after having achieved a berth and finishing twenty-second from the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. [5] [6] Sailing with Ramsay in the opening series, the Canadian duo posted a grade of 179 net points to earn a twenty-fifth-place finish in a fleet of twenty-seven boats. [7] [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Mike Leigh". London 2012 Olympic Games. London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 2 May 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
  2. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Mike Leigh". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  3. ↑ "A Life on the Water: Meet Mike Leigh, Olympic Laser Sailor". Canadian Olympic Committee. 1 July 2008. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  4. ↑ "Men's Laser Class". Beijing 2008 . NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 28 July 2012. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  5. ↑ Bone, Oliver (30 January 2012). "Bone: Canadian sailors earn Olympic berths in Miami". The Sports Network. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  6. ↑ Christie, James (8 December 2011). "Ramsay, Leigh best of Canadian bunch at world sailing championships". The Globe and Mail . Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  7. ↑ "Men's 470". London 2012 Olympic Games. London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 30 May 2013. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
  8. ↑ "From RS:X And 470 To The Nacra 17". www.sailing.org. ISAF. 30 January 2013. Archived from the original on 10 July 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
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