Tom Slingsby

Tom Slingsby OAM (born 5 September 1984) is a successful Australian competitive sailor. Slingsby's first successes came sailing Laser dinghys, where he won three consecutive world championships and the 2012 Olympic gold medal. Slingsby was the strategist for the America's Cup-winning Team Oracle USA in 2013. In 2016 he skippered the winner-of-line honours in the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race line. Following this he skippered the Australian team in the inaugural SailGP competition.

Tom Slingsby
Slingsby in 2014
Personal information
NationalityAustralian
Born (1984-09-05) 5 September 1984
Sydney, NSW
Height186 cm (6 ft 1 in)[1]
Weight83 kg (183 lb)
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportSailing
Event(s)laser (dinghy) F50 (catamaran) etchells moth (dinghy)
Medal record
Men's sailing
Representing  Australia
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2012 LondonMen's Laser class
Updated on 7 May 2020.

Career highlights

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.

2008 – Won Australian Sailing Male Sailor of the Year Award

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

2010 – Won the Etchells Class World Championship as crew with Andrew Palfry, with fellow America's Cup legend John Bertrand helming.[2]

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

2011 – Won Australian Sailing Male Sailor of the Year Award

2012 – Won the Laser dinghy world championship at Boltenhagen Germany for his fifth world title[3]

2012 – Won the Men's Laser Gold Medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.[4]

2012 – Won the Australian Institute of Sport Athlete of the Year Award with swimmer Alicia Coutts.[5]

2012 – Won Australian Sailing Male Sailor of the Year Award

2013 – Won the 34th America's Cup as the strategist in Oracle Team USA. Re-signed with Oracle for their defence of the cup.[6]

2016 – Won the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race skippering the supermaxi yacht Perpetual LOYAL.

2019 – Won the inaugural SailGP skippering the Australian Team sailing F50 foiling catamarans.

2019 – Won the Chandler Macleod Moth Worlds

2020 – Won Australian Sailing Male Sailor of the Year Award

2021 – Won the World Sailor of the Year Awards.

2022 – Won Australian Sailing Male Sailor of the Year Award

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.[7]

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".[8]

Slingsby, as the Captain of Team Australia, won the 2019 season 1 of Sail GP[9][10]

References
  1. "Tom Slingsby". Official Site of the 2012 Australian Olympic Team. Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  2. "Bertrand Super-Show Seals Etchells World Title".
  3. ILCA
  4. "Aussie Tom Slingsby sails to Laser Olympic gold". The Times of India. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
  5. Dutton, Chris (17 November 2012). "Slingsby shares top gong with Coutts". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
  6. Slingsby sticks with Oracle. 3 News NZ. 15 November 2013.
  7. "Sydney to Hobart 2013". Perpetual. 2 December 2013. Archived from the original on 10 December 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
  8. "SLINGSBY, Thomas David". It's an Honour - Dept of the Prime Minister & Cabinet. Retrieved 14 July 2018.
  9. Sail GP Tom Slingsby
  10. Tom Slingsby on Sail Sport Talk on Sports Byline
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