Mathew Belcher

Mathew Belcher medal table
sailing
Australia
Olympic games
gold	London 2012	470s
silver	Rio de Janeiro 2016	470s
World championships
gold	Medemblik 2010	470s
gold	Perth 2011	470s
gold	Barcelona 2012	470s
gold	La Rochelle 2013	470s
gold	Santander 2014	470s
gold	Haifa 2015	470s
bronze	San Isidro 2016	470s
gold	Thessaloniki 2017	470s
gold	Enoshima 2019	470s

Mathew Anthony Belcher , AOM (born September 20, 1982 in Gold Coast ) is an Australian sailor .

successes

Mathew Belcher took part in two Olympic Games with the 470 dinghy . In 2012 he started with Malcolm Page , with whom he finished the regatta in first place in front of the British and Argentine boats, making the two Olympic champions . They had won five of the first ten races and came second in the medal race . At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , he and William Ryan finished second behind the Croatians Šime Fantela and Igor Marenić . The Greeks Panagiotis Mantis and Pavlos Kagialis as well as Belcher and Ryan had achieved 58 total points, but in the medal race they finished ninth ahead of Mantis and Kagialis and thus secured the silver medal. At world championships he won a total of nine medals, eight of which were gold. He was world champion three times, from 2010 to 2012, with Malcolm Page, and between 2013 and 2019 he won the title five times with William Ryan.

In 2013 the World Sailing Association named Belcher World Sailor of the Year . For his Olympic success he received the Australia Order Medal the following year . He is married to the German sailor Friederike Belcher .

Web links

• Mathew Belcher in the database of World Sailing (English)
• Mathew Belcher in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Mathew Belcher at the Australian Olympic Committee (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mr. Mathew Anthony Belcher. In: honors.pmc.gov.au. January 26, 2014, accessed February 20, 2020 .