Pippa Wilson
| Olympic medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Representing File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain | ||
| Women's Sailing | ||
| Gold medal – first place | 2008 Beijing | Yngling class |
| World Championships | ||
| Gold medal – first place | 2024 | SB20 |
| Gold medal – first place | 2007 Cascais | Yngling |
| Gold medal – first place | 2008 Miami | Yngling |
| European Championships | ||
| Gold medal – first place | 2008 Blanes | Yngling |
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Philippa Claire Wilson MBE (born 7 February 1986 in Southampton) is an English professional sailor. She started her sailing career in the youth class dinghy, Cadet, then progressed to the 29er, 420, 470 then Yngling, in which she won an Olympic gold medal in 2008. Based in Dubai, she teaches dinghy sailing, and is Executive Director of the 29er Class Association.
2008 Olympic Games
[edit | edit source]Wilson won a gold medal in the Yngling sailing class in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, together with Sarah Webb and Sarah Ayton.[1]
Honour
[edit | edit source]Wilson was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.[2]
Post-competitive career
[edit | edit source]She was awarded an honorary MSc by the University of Chichester in 2009.[3] In 2024 she was a judge of the World Sailing Awards.[4] She is (under her married name, Pippa Kenton-Page) based in Dubai where she teaches dinghy sailing, and in 2024 she was appointed Executive Director of the 29er Class Association.[5]
See also
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- Living people
- 1986 births
- English female sailors (sport)
- Sportspeople from Southampton
- Yngling class world champions
- SB20 class world champions
- World champions in sailing for Great Britain
- English Olympic competitors
- Olympic medalists in sailing
- Olympic sailors for Great Britain
- Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
- Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Yngling
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- Extreme Sailing Series sailors
- 21st-century English sportswomen
- British Olympic medallist stubs
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