Olivia Price

This article is about Olivia Price the Australian sailor. For Olivia Price the Australian football player, see Olivia Price (footballer).
Olivia Price
Personal information
Nationality Australia
Born 2 August 1992
Sydney
Height 164 cm (65 in) (2012)
Weight 68 kg (150 lb) (2012)
Sport
Country Australia
Sport Sailing
Event(s) Elliott 6m — Women

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]

Personal

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, 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]

Sailing

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]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Medal madness for University of Sydney". The University of Sydney. 2012-08-13. Retrieved 2012-08-14.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 "London 2012 - Olivia Price". Australia: Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Staff writer. "Olivia is setting sail for London Olympics — People — News — Inner West Courier". Inner-west-courier.whereilive.com.au. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 "ISAF Women's Match Racing World Championship — Aussies ready". Sail-World.com. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
  5. ↑ "Australian sailors win four gold medals on Olympic waters — Yacht & Boat". Yachtandboat.com.au. 2012-06-12. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
  6. ↑ "Games Course Suits Aussies". The Australian. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "ISAF Sailing World Cup standings — Australians top three classes". Sail-World.com. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Olympic sailors eye record medal haul". Wwos.ninemsn.com.au. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "ISAF Women's Match Racing World Championships — Through to next stage". Sail-World.com. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
  10. ↑ "ISAF Women's Match Racing World Championship — Off to a good start". Sail-World.com. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
  11. ↑ "London 2012 Olympic Games — Aussie sailors aim to bash the Poms". Sail-World.com. Retrieved 2012-07-10.