Nick Dempsey

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Nick Dempsey
medal table

sailing

United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Olympic games
bronze Athens 2004 Windsurfing
silver London 2012 Windsurfing
silver Rio de Janeiro 2016 Windsurfing
World championships
bronze Cascais 2007 Windsurfing
gold Weymouth 2009 Windsurfing
silver Cadiz 2012 Windsurfing
gold Búzios 2013 Windsurfing

Nicholas Charles "Nick" Dempsey (born August 13, 1980 in Norwich ) is a former British windsurfer .

successes

Nick Dempsey took part in the Olympic Games five times . In 2000 he only finished 16th in the Mistral boat class in Sydney , before finishing third in Athens four years later . With his victory in the last race, he improved from fourth to third, winning the bronze medal behind Gal Fridman and Nikolaos Kaklamanakis . In 2008 he just missed another medal win in Beijing as fourth in the RS: X boat class . After ten races he was tied with Tom Ashley one point behind Julien Bontemps , but fell back on the podium after finishing seventh. At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 and in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 , he won the silver medal behind Dorian van Rijsselberghe . Both times he had a bigger lead over third place as well as a deficit to van Rijsselberghe. He ended his career after the 2016 Games.

At World Championships Dempsey won the title in Weymouth in 2009 and in Armação dos Búzios in 2013 . He also won the silver medal in Cádiz in 2012 and the bronze medal in Cascais in 2007 .

Dempsey was married to the sailor Sarah Ayton from 2008 to 2012 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nick Dempsey brings windsurfing career to an end with silver medal at Rio Olympics 2016. In: telegraph.co.uk. The Daily Telegraph , August 14, 2016, accessed February 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Dempsey, Nick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dempsey, Nicholas Charles (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British windsurfer
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Norwich , UK