Matthew Wearn
| File:Matt WEARN AUSTRALIA OLYMPIC CHAMPION ILCA 7 MARSEILLE JO PARIS 2024 by Eric Salard (cropped).jpg Wearn at the 2024 Summer Olympics | |
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Nickname | 'Wearny' 'Wearn Dawg' |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Born | 30 September 1995 |
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| Sailing career | |
| Class(es) | ILCA 7, Etchells, ILCA 6 |
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Medal record | |
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Matthew Wearn OAM (born 30 September 1995) is an Australian competitive sailor. He won gold at the 2020 Summer Olympics and the 2024 Summer Olympics in the men's Laser class.[2]
Wearn has been sailing since he was five years old. He chose the sport over a possible career in Australian Rules football. He was inspired by Beijing Olympic champions Elise Rechichi and Tessa Parkinson who came to his local sailing club in Perth to show young sailors the gold medals they had won in the 470 class.[3]
Career
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Wearn won silver medals at the Laser World Championships in 2018, 2019 and 2020. He qualified to represent Australia at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo 2021, winning the gold medal in Laser event.
In the 2022 Australia Day Honours Wearn was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia.[4] In 2023, awarded Male Able-Athlete of the Year at the AIS Sport Performance Awards.[5]
In August 2024, Wearn defended his Olympic title in the Laser class.[6]
In 2024, awarded Male Able-Athlete of the Year at the AIS Sport Performance Awards.[7]
Wearn is a three-time winner of the Australian Sailing Male Sailor of the Year Award (2018, 2023 and 2024)[8] and in 2024 was inducted into the Australian Sailing Hall of Fame.[9]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]As a 15-year-old, Matt was invited to train with the Western Australian under-15 Australian rules football team, but due to sailing commitments, he had to turn this opportunity down. In 2023, he married Belgian sailor Emma Plasschaert.[10]
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Matt Wearn at Australian Sailing
- Matt Wearn at World Sailing (archive)
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- 1995 births
- Living people
- Australian male sailors (sport)
- Olympic sailors for Australia
- Olympic gold medalists for Australia
- Olympic medalists in sailing
- Sailors at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Laser
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
- Sportsmen from Western Australia
- 21st-century Australian sportsmen
- Sailors at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Laser
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Australian sailing biography stubs
- Australian Olympic medalist stubs