Tom Slingsby

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Tom Slingsby
Medal record

Men's Sailing
Competitor for Australia
Olympic Games
Gold	2012 London	Men's Laser class

Tom Slingsby (born 5 September 1984) is an Australian sailor from the Central Coast of New South Wales. He is the reigning world champion and olympic gold medalist in the laser class. He is an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.

2007 - Won the Laser dinghy world championships.

2008 - Ranked number one in the Laser dinghy class prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics Laser competition but finished 23rd overall.

2010 - Won the Laser dinghy world championships at Hayling Island, UK. He was also named the male ISAF World Sailor of the Year.

2011 - Won the Laser ISAF World Sailing Championships at Fremantle, Australia.

2012 - Won the Laser dinghy world championship at Boltenhagen Germany for his fifth world title^[1]

2012 - Won the Men's Laser Gold Medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.^[2]

2012 - Won the Australian Institute of Sport Athlete of the Year Award with swimmer Alicia Coutts.^[3]

2013 - Won the 34th America's Cup as the strategist in Oracle Team USA. Re-signed with Oracle for their defence of the cup.^[4]

In December 2013 Slingsby is a crew member aboard racing supermaxi yacht Perpetual Loyal in the 2013 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, with his other celebrity crew members, Karl Stefanovic, Larry Emdur, Phil Waugh, Jude Bolton and Guillaume Brahimi.^[5]

References

↑ ILCA
↑ "Aussie Tom Slingsby sails to Laser Olympic gold". Retrieved 06-08-2012.
↑ Dutton, Chris (17 November 2012). "Slingsby shares top gong with Coutts". Canberra Times. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
↑ Slingsby sticks with Oracle. 3 News NZ. 15 November 2013.
↑ "Sydney to Hobart 2013". Perpetual. 2013-12-02. Retrieved 2013-12-02.

External links

"Australian Olympic Committee profile" olympics.com.au
ILCA "Laser Standard World Championship 2012" laserinternational.org
Sponser Hobart Yacht Race

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Anna Meares	Australian Athlete of the Year 2012 (with Alicia Coutts)	Succeeded by Caroline Buchanan and Kim Crow

v t e ISAF World Sailor of the Year (male)

1994: Blake/Knox-Johnston 1995: Coutts 1996: Schümann 1997: Goss 1998: Ainslie 1999: Kusznierewicz 2000: Reynolds/Liljedahl 2001: Scheidt 2002: Ainslie 2003: Coutts 2004: Scheidt 2005: Echavarri/Paz 2006: Sanderson 2007: Baird 2008: Ainslie 2009: Grael 2010: Slingsby 2011: Martinez/Fernandez 2012: Ben Ainslie 2013: Belcher

Persondata
Name	Slingsby, Tom
Alternative names
Short description	Australian sailor
Date of birth	5 September 1984
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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