Paul Goodison

Paul Goodison medal table
Paul Goodison (2008)
sailing
United Kingdom
Olympic games
gold	Beijing 2008	laser
World championships
bronze	Hyannis 2002	laser
gold	Halifax 2009	laser

Paul Martin Goodison , MBE (born November 29, 1977 in Sheffield ) is a former British sailor .

successes

Paul Goodison took part in the Laser Boat Class three times in the Olympic Games . At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , with 81 points, he just missed winning a medal in fourth place. Four years later he finished the regatta in Beijing with 63 points in first place and was Olympic champion ahead of Vasilij Žbogar and Diego Romero . In 2012 he finished seventh in London . At World Championships he won the bronze medal in Hyannis in 2002 , before winning the title in Halifax in 2009 . From 2005 to 2009 he was European champion five times in a row.

For his Olympic success, Goodison was made a member of the Order of the British Empire at the end of 2008 .

Web links

Commons : Paul Goodison  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Steve Bierley: Olympics: Gold again for GB as Goodison triumphs in Laser class. In: theguardian.com. The Guardian , August 19, 2008, accessed February 26, 2020 . 
2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 58929, HMSO, London, December 31, 2008, p. 17 ( PDF , accessed February 26, 2020, English).