Tom Slingsby

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Tom Slingsby
Tom Slingsby aboard Perpetual Loyal for 2014 Sydney Hobart Race.jpg
Personal information
Nationality Australia
Born (1984-09-05) 5 September 1984 (age 37)
Sydney NSW
Height186 cm (6 ft 1 in)[1]
Weight83 kg (183 lb)
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportSailing
Event(s)laser (dinghy) F50 (catamaran) etchells moth (dinghy)
Medal record
Men's Sailing
Representing  Australia
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Men's Laser class
Updated on 7 May 2020.

Tom Slingsby OAM (born 5 September 1984) is a successful Australian competitive sailor. Slinsby's first successes came sailing Laser dingys, where he won three consecutive world championships and the 2012 Olympic gold medal. Slingsby was the strategist for the America's Cup winning Team Oracle USA in 2013. In 2016 He skippered the winner of line honours in the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race line. Following this he skippered the Australian team in the inaugural SailGP competition.

Career highlights[]

2007 – Won the Laser dinghy world championships.

2008 – Ranked number one in the Laser dinghy class prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics Laser competition but finished 22nd overall.

2010 – Won the Laser dinghy world championships at Hayling Island, UK. He was also named the male ISAF World Sailor of the Year.

2010 - Won the Etchells Class World Championship as crew with with fellow America cup legend John Bertrand helming.[2]

2011 – Won the Laser ISAF World Sailing Championships at Fremantle, Australia.

2012 – Won the Laser dinghy world championship at Boltenhagen Germany for his fifth world title[3]

2012 – Won the Men's Laser Gold Medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.[4]

2012 – Won the Australian Institute of Sport Athlete of the Year Award with swimmer Alicia Coutts.[5]

2013 – Won the 34th America's Cup as the strategist in Oracle Team USA. Re-signed with Oracle for their defence of the cup.[6]

2016 – Won the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race skippering the supermaxi yacht Perpetual LOYAL.

2019 – Won the inaugural SailGP skippering the Australian Team sailing F50 foiling catamarans.

2019 – Won the Chandler Macleod Moth Worlds Moth (dinghy)

2021 – Won the World Sailor of the Year Awards.

In December 2013 Slingsby was a crew member aboard racing supermaxi yacht Perpetual Loyal in the 2013 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, with his other celebrity crew members, Karl Stefanovic, Larry Emdur, Phil Waugh, Jude Bolton and Guillaume Brahimi.[7]

Slingsby received the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2014 Australia Day Honours for "service to sport as a gold medallist at the London 2012 Olympic Games".[8]

Sliingsby, as the Captain of Team Australia, won the 2019 Season 1 of Sail GP [9] [10]

References[]

  1. ^ "Tom Slingsby". london2012.olympics.com.au. Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  2. ^ https://members.sailing.org/news/3381.php#.Xf4_VPzgrIU
  3. ^ ILCA
  4. ^ "Aussie Tom Slingsby sails to Laser Olympic gold". Retrieved 6 August 2012.
  5. ^ Dutton, Chris (17 November 2012). "Slingsby shares top gong with Coutts". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
  6. ^ Slingsby sticks with Oracle. 3 News NZ. 15 November 2013.
  7. ^ "Sydney to Hobart 2013". Perpetual. 2 December 2013. Archived from the original on 10 December 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
  8. ^ "SLINGSBY, Thomas David". It's an Honour - Dept of the Prime Minister & Cabinet. Retrieved 14 July 2018.
  9. ^ Sail GP Tom Slingsby
  10. ^ Tom Slingsby on Sail Sport Talk on Sports Byline

External links[]

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Australian Athlete of the Year
2012
(with Alicia Coutts) 		Succeeded by
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