 Nina Curtis and Olivia Price (on the right) at the Welcome Home parade in Sydney | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Australian |
| Born | 2 August 1992 Sydney |
| Height | 164 cm (65 in) (2012) |
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) (2012) |
| Sport | |
| Country | Australia |
| Sport | Sailing |
| Event | Elliott 6m — Women |
Medal record | |
Olivia Price (born 2 August 1992) is an Australian sailor. She represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in sailing, and won a silver medal. [1]
Price was born on 2 August 1992 in Sydney [2] and is from Drummoyne. [3] She attended Drummoyne Public School before going to high school at St Catherines School then Sydney Distance Education High School. [2] She chose distance education in order to allow herself more time to compete and train, finally earning her HSC in 2011. [2] As of 2012 [update] , she lives in Sydney, [2] and is part of The University of Sydney's Elite Athlete Program. [1]
Price is 164 centimetres (65 in) tall and weighs 68 kilograms (150 lb). [2]
Price is a sailor, serving as a bowman and skipper. [2] She has been coached by Euan McNicol since 2010. [2] Her primary training base is Sydney, with a secondary training base in Weymouth. [2] She is a member of the Middle Harbour Yacht Club. [2] She has a sailing scholarship from the Australian Institute of Sport and New South Wales Institute of Sport. [2]
In 2008, as a sixteen-year-old, Price started competing in the ISAF World Cup Women's Match Racing Tour where she was the youngest woman in the competition, a title she held into 2012. [2] She was ranked the ISAF Women's World Ranking's number one bowman in 2010. [2] In 2010, as a crew member, she came in first at the 2010 Australian National Open Match Racing Champion and, as skipper, came in first at the 2010 Australian Women's Match Racing Champion. [2] At 2010 ISAF Sail for Gold World Cup in Weymouth, she earned a gold medal. [2] At the ISAF 2010 Women's Match Racing World Championships in Newport, Rhode Island, her team finished third. [2] In the Women's Match Racing Team category for the ISAF World Ranking List, her team was ranked first in 2010. [2]
In 2011, Price, Nina Curtis, and Lucinda Whitty formed their Elliott 6m team, [2] [4] skippering the team from the start. [2] She competed in the Perth 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships. [4] Her team finished eighth. [4] At ISAF Nations Cup Grand Final in Sheboygan, her team finished third in match racing. [2] At the 2011 Weymouth & Portland International Regatta in Weymouth, Great Britain, her team finished fifth in match racing. [2] At the 2011 European Championships in Helsinki, Finland, her team finished seventh in match racing. [2] At the 2012 ISAF Sailing World Cup in Weymouth, her team finished first. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] At the 2012 ISAF Sailing World Cup in Miami, her team finished second. [4] [7] At the 2012 ISAF Sailing World Cup in Spain, her team finished third. [4] [7] She competed in the 2012 ISAF Women's Match Racing World Championship in Gottenburg, Sweden. [9] Going into the event, her team was ranked sixth in the world. [4] With five wins and two losses, her team finished third in their group in the group stage. [9] This was her team's final competition before the Olympics. [4]
Price has been selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in sailing [2] [4] [10] [11] as the team's skipper. [3] [8] She was named to the Elliott 6m team in June 2012. [3] [4] She was the youngest member of Australia's sailing team. [3] In the lead up to the Olympic Games, she participated at a national team training camp at the Australian Institute of Sport's Italian training centre. [3] She went into London knowing that if she earned a medal, she would be the youngest female ever to earn one in the event. [2]
She was not selected for the 49erFX class at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and took a five-year break from sailing. [12]
Price teamed up with Evie Haseldine in September 2021. [12] Together they finished 10th sailing in the 49erFX class at the Olympic Test Event, held in Marseille in July 2023. [13] Coached by Victor Paya, they subsequently won bronze at the 2023 Sailing World Championships, winning Australia a place in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. [14]
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