Bryony Shaw
| Medal record | ||
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Representing  Great Britain |
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| Sailing | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
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2008 Beijing | Sailboard |
| World Championships | ||
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2013 Buzios | Women's RS:X |
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2015 Muscat | Women's RS:X |
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2016 Eilat | Women's RS:X |
| European Championships | ||
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2015 Sicily | Women's RS:X |
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2006 Alacati | Women's RS:X |
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2012 Tel Aviv | 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.[citation needed]
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
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| 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 |  |
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See also
- Nick Dempsey, another Olympic windsurfer from Weymouth
References
External links
- Articles with unsourced statements from June 2015
- British sailors (sport)
- Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic sailors of Great Britain
- Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – RS:X
- Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – RS:X
- Living people
- 1983 births
- People from Weymouth, Dorset
- Alumni of Cardiff University
- Olympic medalists in sailing
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- People educated at Cheney School
