Bruce Kendall

This article describes the windsurfer Bruce Kendall. For the politician of the same name, see Bruce B. Kendall .

Bruce Kendall medal table
Bruce Kendall (2009)
sailing
New Zealand
Olympic games
bronze	Los Angeles 1984	Windsurfing
gold	Seoul 1988	Windsurfing
World championships
gold	Kashiwazaki 1993	Windsurfing
silver	Gimli 1994	Windsurfing

Anthony Bruce Kendall , MBE (born June 27, 1964 in Papakura ) is a retired New Zealand windsurfer .

successes

Bruce Kendall took part in three Olympic Games . In 1984 he just missed second place in Los Angeles with 46.4 points, which Scott Steele achieved with 46 points, but received a bronze medal as third. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul , he took first place with 35.4 points ahead of Jan Boersma and Michael Gebhardt and thus became Olympic champion . Four years later he finished fourth in Barcelona and in fourth failed to win another medal. The following year he became world champion in Kashiwazaki . In 1994 he reached second place at the World Cup in Gimli .

For his Olympic victory in 1989 he was made a member of the Order of the British Empire . In 2013 he was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame . Kendall is married and has two children. His sister Barbara Kendall was also an Olympic windsurfing champion.

Web links

Commons : Bruce Kendall  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bruce Kendall in the database of World Sailing (English)
• Bruce Kendall in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Bruce Kendall in the New Zealand Olympic Committee (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 51774, HMSO, London, June 16, 1989, p. 32 ( PDF , accessed February 12, 2020, English).