Shirley Robertson

Shirley Anne Robertson , OBE (born July 15, 1968 in Dundee , Scotland ) is a British sailor and television presenter . She is one of only four women to have won two gold medals in Olympic sailing competitions.

When she was seven, she learned to sail on Loch Ard , a lake in Scotland. At the beginning of the 1990s she advanced to the top of the world in the Europe boat class and came ninth at the 1992 Summer Olympics . Four years later , in fourth place, she just missed the medals, also in 1997 at the World Cup. In 1998 and 1999 she was second and third in the World Cup. She won her first gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney . The International Sailing Federation voted her World Sailor of the Year.

In 2001 Robertson moved to the Yngling boat class. After a long period of acclimatization, she won a second gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , together with Sarah Ayton and Sarah Webb . She finished third in the 2007 World Championship with new sailing partners, but the Royal Yachting Association did not consider her in the selection for the 2008 Olympic Games. Since then she has concentrated on regattas in non-Olympic disciplines.

Robertson lives in Cowes on the Isle of Wight . She has been married since 2001 and has a son and a daughter (twins). She hosts the monthly program Mainsail on CNN , which reports on events in the world of sailing. She also reports on sailing in sports programs on the BBC ; In 2008 she will comment on the Olympic sailing competitions in Qingdao . She also advised the Organizing Committee of the 2012 Olympic Games.

Web links

• Shirley Robertson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Shirley Robertson's website
• Sailor portrait ISAF
• Mainsail broadcast on CNN