Bryony Shaw
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
Competitor for  Great Britain
| ||
| Sailing | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
| Bronze | 2008 Beijing | Sailboard |
| European Championships | ||
| Bronze | 2012 Tel Aviv | Women's RS:X |
| Silver | 2006 Alacati | Women's RS:X |
Bryony Elisabeth Shaw (born 28 April 1983, Wandsworth) is a British windsurfer. She lives in Tunbridge Wells. Her boyfriend is Greg King, also a British windsurfer.
Early life
She first began windsurfing in the south of France in 1992. She attended Cheney Upper School on Cheney Lane near Headington in Oxford gaining A levels in Art, Maths and Biology, where her father had been teaching Business Studies for PhD at Oxford Brookes University. She had windsurfed on Farmoor Reservoir to the west of Oxford. She went to Cardiff University to study Architecture where she stayed for a year before committing to windsurfing full-time in 2004.[1]
Windsurfing
She won the bronze medal in the women's RS:X class at the 2008 Summer Olympics, the first ever women's windsurfing medal for the British Olympic team. She trains at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy.
Shaw ranked 8th at the 2008 RS:X World Championship, and 12th at the 2007 ISAF Sailing World Championships.[2]
- 2008 Summer Olympic regatta
| Points | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Race | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Medal race | Net | Position |
| 4 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 45 |  | ||
See also
- Nick Dempsey, another Olympic windsurfer from Weymouth
References
- ↑ "Bryony Shaw, Sailor biography". ISAF. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
- ↑ "RS:X - Women - Overall Results". Beijing Olympics 2008. ISAF. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
External links
- Team GB profile
- RYA profile
- Guardian July 2008
- Gold at Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta in September 2007