Giles Scott

Giles Scott
Nationality:	United Kingdom
Birthday:	June 23, 1987
Place of birth:	Huntingdon , UK
Size:	197 cm
Weight:	95 kg
Society:	Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
Boat classes:	Finn dinghy
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 4 × 0 × 1 ×
Olympic games gold Rio de Janeiro 2016 Finn dinghy  Sailing world championships bronze San Francisco 2010 Finn dinghy gold Perth 2011 Finn dinghy gold Santander 2014 Finn dinghy gold Takapuna 2015 Finn dinghy gold Gaeta 2016 Finn dinghy

Giles Lyndon Scott , MBE (born June 23, 1987 in Huntingdon ) is a British sailor .

successes

Giles Scott started in the boat class Finn-Dinghy at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . He won three out of ten races and finished four more among the top three competitors. Due to his lead, he was already the winner before the medal race and was Olympic champion ahead of Vasilij Žbogar and Caleb Paine . Scott had been the top gold favorite in the run-up to the Olympic regatta after having been unbeaten in regattas for two years. At world championships he won his first medal in 2010 in San Francisco with bronze. 2011 in Perth , 2014 in Santander , 2015 in Takapuna and 2016 in Gaeta he became world champion. In addition, he was European champion several times.

In 2013 he started for Luna Rossa in the America's Cup . For his Olympic success, Scott was made a member of the Order of the British Empire at the end of 2016 .

Web links

• Giles Scott in the database of World Sailing (English)
• Giles Scott in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Daniel Schofield: Giles Scott secures sailing Olympic gold in Finn class, continuing Britain's glorious tradition. In: telegraph.co.uk. The Daily Telegraph , August 14, 2016, accessed February 18, 2020 . 
2. ^ The BFA congratulates Giles Scott. In: finnuk.org.uk. December 31, 2016, accessed February 18, 2020 .