Alison Young (sailor)
 during the Olympic Parade in 2012 in Weymouth & Portland | |
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| Born | 29 April 1987 Worcestershire, England |
Alison Young (born 29 May 1987)[1][2] is a British sailor.[3] She was the first British woman to be world champion in a solo Olympic dinghy class.
Life
[edit]Young was born in Wolverhampton, England on 29 May 1987. She started sailing on a lake in the River Severn valley when she was nine at the Trimpley Sailing Club.
She competed in the Laser Radial class event at the 2012 Summer Olympics where she placed 5th.[4]
At the 2016 Laser World Championships, she won gold in the laser radial class[5] and in doing so became the first British woman to become world champion in a solo Olympic dinghy class.[6] Her best World Championship performance before this was 4th in 2012.[5]
Young competed at the Rio 2016 Olympics, finishing 8th overall. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the Women's Laser Radial class[7][8] and she finished tenth.
References
[edit]- ^ Youll, Russell (14 December 2021). "Triple Olympian Alison Young announces retirement from sailing". www.expressandstar.com. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
- ^ "Alison Young profile". BBC Sport. 19 June 2012. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
- ^ "Alison Young". London 2012. Archived from the original on 26 August 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
- ^ "Women's Laser Radial: Event Standings". London 2012. Archived from the original on 6 April 2013. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
- ^ a b "Laser World Championships: Alison Young wins Radial gold in Rio 2016 boost". BBC Sport. 21 April 2016. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
- ^ "Alison Young secures historic sailing gold medal at world championships". the Guardian. 21 April 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
- ^ "Worcestershire ace among first to get GB Tokyo 2020 Olympics call". Worcester News. 2 October 2019. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
- ^ "Sailing YOUNG Alison - Tokyo 2020 Olympics". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 27 July 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
