Lucinda Whitty

Lucinda Whitty

Nina Curtis and Olivia Price (on the right) at the Welcome Home parade in Sydney
Personal information
Nickname(s) Lu
Nationality Australia
Born 9 November 1989
Sydney
Height 167 cm (66 in) (2012)
Weight 63 kg (139 lb) (2012)
Sport
Country Australia
Sport Sailing
Event(s) Elliott 6m — Women

Lucinda Whitty (born 9 November 1989) is an Australian sailor. She represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in sailing.

Personal

Nicknamed Lu, Whitty was born on 9 November 1989 in Sydney.[1] Jeremy Whitty is her father and has competed in several sailing races.[1] She has siblings and they are active in competitive sailing.[1] She attended Lane Cove Public School before going to high school at SCEGGS Darlinghurst.[1] She enrolled at the University of Technology, Sydney in 2008 and is enrolled as of 2012. She is working on a Bachelor of Business.[1] As of 2012, she lives in Sydney.[1]

Whitty is 167 centimetres (66 in) tall and weighs 63 kilograms (139 lb).[1]

Sailing

Whitty is a sailor, acting as a bowman.[1] As a five-year-old, she started participating in the sport.[1] The boat she competes in is Only Racing and is operated by teammate Olivia Price.[1] She has been coached by Euan McNicol since 2010.[1] Her primary training base is Sydney, with a secondary training base in Weymouth.[1] She is a member of the Middle Harbour Yacht Club.[1] She has a sailing scholarship from the Australian Institute of Sport and New South Wales Institute of Sport.[1]

Whitty made her Australian national team debut at the 2007 Youth Olympic Festival.[1] At the 2009 ISAF Women's Match Racing Championship, she came in first.[1] She competed in the 2009 ISAF Match Racing World Championships with Nicky Souter, and came away with a first place finish.[1] In 2010, she was named the Australian Female of the Year Sailor.[1] The same year, she earned the title of Australian University Female Sportswoman of the year and the 2010 Female Sailor of the Year.[1]

In 2011, Whitty, Nina Curtis and Olivia Price formed their Elliott 6m team in response to an announcement that the class of boat would be an Olympic event in London.[1][2] She competed in the Perth 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships.[2] Her team finished eighth.[2] At ISAF Nations Cup Grand Final in Sheboygan, her team finished third in match racing.[1] At the 2011 Weymouth & Portland International Regatta in Weymouth, Great Britain, her team finished fifth in match racing.[1] At the 2011 European Championships in Helsinki, Finland, her team finished seventh in match racing.[1] At the 2012 ISAF Sailing World Cup in Weymouth, her team finished first.[2][3][4][5][6] At the 2012 ISAF Sailing World Cup in Miami, her team finished second.[2][5] At the 2012 ISAF Sailing World Cup in Spain, her team finished third.[2][5] She competed in the 2012 ISAF Women’s Match Racing World Championship in Gottenburg, Sweden.[7] Going into the event, her team was ranked sixth in the world.[2] With five wins and two losses, her team finished third in their group in the group stage.[7] This was her team's final competition before the Olympics.[2]

Whitty was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in sailing.[1][2][6][8][9][10] She was named to the Elliott 6m team in June 2012.[2][9] 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.[9] In the 2012 games, Whitty, Curtis and Price got a silver medal for Australia.[11]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 "London 2012 - Lucinda Whitty". Australia: Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 "ISAF Women's Match Racing World Championship — Aussies ready". Sail-World.com. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
  3. ↑ "Australian sailors win four gold medals on Olympic waters — Yacht & Boat". Yachtandboat.com.au. 2012-06-12. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
  4. ↑ "Games Course Suits Aussies". The Australian. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "ISAF Sailing World Cup standings — Australians top three classes". Sail-World.com. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Olympic sailors eye record medal haul". Wwos.ninemsn.com.au. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "ISAF Women's Match Racing World Championships — Through to next stage". Sail-World.com. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
  8. ↑ "ISAF Women's Match Racing World Championship — Off to a good start". Sail-World.com. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 "Olivia is setting sail for London Olympics — People — News — Inner West Courier". Inner-west-courier.whereilive.com.au. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
  10. ↑ "London 2012 Olympic Games — Aussie sailors aim to bash the Poms". Sail-World.com. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
  11. ↑