Aaron McIntosh
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| Born | 7 January 1972 (age 54) Auckland, New Zealand |
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Aaron McIntosh (born 7 January 1972 in Auckland) is a windsurfer from New Zealand who won a Bronze medal at 2000 in Sydney. McIntosh gre up in Buckland's Beach, where he purchased his first windsurfer at the age of 16.[1] He was educated at Macleans College.[2] McIntosh just missed out on a medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta finishing a close fourth. At the World Mistral Championships he finished third in 1993, second in 1995 and won three times in 1994, 1997 and 1998.[2]
McIntosh attempted to qualify for a third Olympics at Beijing in the Soling class but was unsuccessful. He did qualify—with Mark Kennedy—for the two-man Tornado multihull class, but New Zealand did not send them to the games.[3]
He is the coach of Dorian van Rijsselberghe, who won gold at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, as well as Kiran Badloe who won gold at the 2020 Olympics.[4]
References
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- ^ Badloe had het zonder 'Dor' en Aaron niet gered: 'Niet ik, maar we hebben goud' NOS.nl, 31 July 2021.
External links
[edit | edit source]- Aaron McIntosh at World Sailing (archive)
- Aaron McIntosh at the New Zealand Olympic CommitteeLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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- 1972 births
- Living people
- New Zealand windsurfers
- New Zealand male sailors (sport)
- Olympic sailors for New Zealand
- Olympic bronze medalists for New Zealand
- Olympic medalists in sailing
- Sailors at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Mistral One Design
- Sailors at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Mistral One Design
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Sailors (sport) from Auckland
- People educated at Macleans College
- New Zealand Olympic medalist stubs
- New Zealand sailing biography stubs
- Windsurfing stubs
- Water sports biography stubs