Tom Ashley

Tom Ashley medal table
sailing
New Zealand
Olympic games
gold	Beijing 2008	Windsurfing
World championships
silver	Torbole 2006	Windsurfing
gold	Auckland 2008	Windsurfing

Thomas John Mitchell "Tom" Ashley , ONZM (born February 11, 1984 in Auckland ) is a former New Zealand windsurfer .

successes

Tom Ashley took part in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and 2008 in Beijing . In 2004 he took tenth place in the Mistral boat class with 98 points. Four years later, the games in the boat class RS: X were much more successful for him: after ten races he was tied with Nick Dempsey one point behind Julien Bontemps , so he had to end up ahead of both of them in the final so-called medal race to win the gold medal. He achieved this with a third place in front of Bontemps in fourth and Dempsey in seventh, with which Ashley finally became Olympic champion ahead of Bontemps and Shahar Zubari . In the same year, he also won the RS: X World Championship in his native Auckland, after having finished second in Nago-Torbole two years earlier .

At the end of 2008 he received the Officer's Cross of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his Olympic success . Ashley is a lawyer and serves in the New Zealand Canoe Racing Association.

Web links

• Tom Ashley in the database of World Sailing (English)
• Tom Ashley in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Tom Ashley in the New Zealand Olympic Committee (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New Year Honors List 2009. In: dpmc.govt.nz. December 31, 2008, accessed February 11, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Olympic gold medalist Tom Ashley becomes new Canoe Racing New Zealand boss. In: nzherald.co.nz. The New Zealand Herald , December 20, 2017, accessed February 11, 2020 .