Tom Slingsby

Tom Slingsby
Personal information
Born (1984-09-05) 5 September 1984
Sydney NSW
Residence Central Coast NSW
Employer Oracle Team USA
Height 186 cm (6 ft 1 in)[1]
Weight 83 kg (183 lb)
Sport
Country Australia
Sport Sailing
Event(s) Laser - Men
Medal record
Men's Sailing
Representing  Australia
Olympic Games
2012 LondonMen's Laser class
Updated on 9 February 2014.

Tom Slingsby OAM (born 5 September 1984) is an Australian sailor from the Central Coast of New South Wales. In 2012 he was both the reigning world champion and the Olympic gold medalist in the Laser (dinghy) class. He is an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.

2007 — Won the Laser dinghy world championships.

2008 — Ranked number one in the Laser dinghy class prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics Laser competition but finished 22nd overall.

2010 — Won the Laser dinghy world championships at Hayling Island, UK. He was also named the male ISAF World Sailor of the Year.

2011 — Won the Laser ISAF World Sailing Championships at Fremantle, Australia.

2012 — Won the Laser dinghy world championship at Boltenhagen Germany for his fifth world title[2]

2012 — Won the Men's Laser Gold Medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.[3]

2012 — Won the Australian Institute of Sport Athlete of the Year Award with swimmer Alicia Coutts.[4]

2013 — Won the 34th America's Cup as the strategist in Oracle Team USA. Re-signed with Oracle for their defence of the cup.[5]

In December 2013 Slingsby was a crew member aboard racing supermaxi yacht Perpetual Loyal in the 2013 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, with his other celebrity crew members, Karl Stefanovic, Larry Emdur, Phil Waugh, Jude Bolton and Guillaume Brahimi.[6]

Slingsby received the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2014 Australia Day Honours for "service to sport as a gold medallist at the London 2012 Olympic Games".[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Tom Slingsby". london2012.olympics.com.au. Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  2. ↑ ILCA
  3. ↑ "Aussie Tom Slingsby sails to Laser Olympic gold". Retrieved 6 August 2012.
  4. ↑ Dutton, Chris (17 November 2012). "Slingsby shares top gong with Coutts". Canberra Times. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
  5. ↑ Slingsby sticks with Oracle. 3 News NZ. 15 November 2013.
  6. ↑ "Sydney to Hobart 2013". Perpetual. 2 December 2013. Archived from the original on 10 December 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
  7. ↑ "SLINGSBY, Thomas David". It's an Honour - Dept of the Prime Minister & Cabinet. Retrieved 2018-07-14.
Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Anna Meares		 Australian Athlete of the Year
2012
(with Alicia Coutts)		 Succeeded by
Caroline Buchanan
and Kim Crow
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