Saskia Clark

Saskia Clark medal table
Saskia Clark (2016)
sailing
United Kingdom
Olympic games
silver	London 2012	470s
gold	Rio de Janeiro 2016	470s
World championships
silver	San Francisco 2005	470s
bronze	Cascais 2007	470s
silver	Perth 2011	470s
gold	Barcelona 2012	470s
bronze	Santander 2014	470s
silver	Haifa 2015	470s

Saskia Clark , MBE (born August 23, 1979 in Colchester ) is a British sailor .

successes

Saskia Clark took part in three Olympic Games in the 470 dinghy . In 2008 she took sixth place with Christina Bassadone . Four years later she and Hannah Mills finished second in London with a total of 51 points behind the New Zealand boat and ahead of the Dutch boat, thus securing the silver medal. At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , she managed to win another medal with Mills, when she was Olympic champion with 44 points this time ahead of New Zealanders Jo Aleh and Olivia Powrie . At world championships she won the silver medal with Mills in the 470 dinghy in Perth in 2011 , before the two succeeded in winning the title in Barcelona the following year . This was followed by winning bronze in 2014 in Santander and silver in 2015 in Haifa . In 2005 she had already won silver with Christina Bassadone in San Francisco and bronze in Cascais in 2007 .

At the end of 2016, like Hannah Mills, she was named a member of the Order of the British Empire for her Olympic success . In the same year, the World Sailing Association named Clark and Mills as World Sailors of the Year .

Web links

Commons : Saskia Clark  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New Year Honors List 2017. (pdf) In: thegazette.co.uk. The London Gazette , December 31, 2016, accessed February 26, 2020 .