Sarah Ayton

Sarah Ayton medal table
sailing
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Olympic games
gold	Athens 2004	Yngling
gold	Beijing 2008	Yngling
World championships
gold	Cascais 2007	Yngling
gold	Miami 2008	Yngling

Sarah Lianne Ayton , OBE (born April 9, 1980 in Ashford ) is a former British sailor .

successes

Sarah Ayton took part in the Yngling boat class twice in Olympic Games . At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , she immediately became Olympic Champion when she and Sarah Webb took first place as a crew member of helmsman Shirley Robertson . After ten out of eleven races, they were already determined ahead of time as the winners and finished the regatta with 39 total points ahead of the Ukrainian and Danish boats. Also in 2008 in Beijing to Ayton secured the gold medal. This time she acted as helmsman, while Pippa Wilson completed the crew around Ayton and Webb. Thanks to 24 points, they came first ahead of the Dutch and Greek women. In 2007 in Cascais and 2008 in Miami , Webb, Ayton and Wilson won the title at the World Championships , and in 2008 they also became European champions together.

After Ayton had already been made a member of the Order of the British Empire for her Olympic success in 2004 , she received the Officer's Cross at the end of 2008 . In 2015 the World Sailing Association named Ayton World Sailor of the Year . She was married to windsurfer Nick Dempsey . The two have two sons.

Web links

Sarah Ayton in the database of World Sailing (English)
Sarah Ayton in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

^ London Gazette (Supplement). No. 58929, HMSO, London, December 31, 2008, p. 9 ( PDF , accessed March 11, 2020, English).
↑ Melanie Hall: UK Olympic medallist leaves wife for woman who replaced her in Team GB. In: telegraph.co.uk. The Daily Telegraph , May 29, 2013, accessed March 11, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Ayton, Sarah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ayton, Sarah Lianne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British sailor
DATE OF BIRTH	April 9, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ashford , UK

[1] London Gazette (Supplement). No. 58929, HMSO, London, December 31, 2008, p. 9 ( PDF , accessed March 11, 2020, English).

[2] Melanie Hall: UK Olympic medallist leaves wife for woman who replaced her in Team GB. In: telegraph.co.uk. The Daily Telegraph , May 29, 2013, accessed March 11, 2020 .