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Sarah Webb (sailor)

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Sarah Webb
Medal record
Women's Sailing
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens Yngling class
Gold medal – first place 2008 Beijing Yngling class
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2007 Cascais Yngling
Gold medal – first place 2008 Miami Yngling
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2008 Blanes Yngling

Sarah Kathleen Gosling OBE (née Webb; born 13 January 1977 in Ashford, Surrey)[1] is a British professional sailor and twice Olympic gold medalist.

Sailing career

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Webb joined the Royal Yachting Association's youth squad and competed in the Laser Radial class in the ISAF Youth World Championships in 1995 and 1996.[1]

She won a gold medal in the Yngling sailing class in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, together with Shirley Robertson and Sarah Ayton, collectively nicknamed "Three Blondes in a Boat."[2] She repeated this success in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, together with Pippa Wilson and Sarah Ayton.[3][4]

In early 2007, Webb appeared on and won BBC cookery programme Ready Steady Cook against fellow Olympic medallist Nick Rogers.

Already a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.[5]

She married multi-millionaire Adam Gosling, a son of the former car park tycoon Sir Donald Gosling in 2009.[6] They have a son.[7]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Sarah Webb". olympics.org.uk. Archived from the original on 26 February 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2008.
  2. ^ "Olympic shootout for Athens blondes". BBC Sport Online. 2 July 2007. Retrieved 12 August 2008.
  3. ^ "GB Yngling women breeze to gold". BBC Sport Online. 17 August 2008. Retrieved 17 August 2008.
  4. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Sarah Webb". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
  5. ^ "No. 58929". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2008. p. 13.
  6. ^ 'Nervous' Olympic sailor marries, BBC News, 9 February 2009. Retrieved 24 February 2009.
  7. ^ Townsend, Nick (7 August 2011). "Gosling insists British medal hopes are buoyant". The Times.
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