Alison Young (born 29 May 1987)
is a British sailor. She was the first British woman to be world champion in a solo Olympic dinghy class.
Life
Young was born in Wolverhampton, England on 29 May 1987. She started sailing on a lake in the
River Severn
The River Severn (, ), at long, is the longest river in Great Britain. It is also the river with the most voluminous flow of water by far in all of England and Wales, with an average flow rate of at Apperley, Gloucestershire. It rises in t ...
valley when she was nine at the Trimpley Sailing Club.
She competed in the
Laser Radial class event at the
2012 Summer Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012, were an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...
where she placed 5th.
At the 2016 Laser World Championships, she won gold in the laser radial class
and in doing so became the first British woman to become world champion in a solo Olympic dinghy class. Her best World Championship performance before this was 4th in 2012.
Young competed at the
Rio 2016 Olympics
The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...
, finishing 8th overall.
She competed at the
2020 Summer Olympics
The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...
in the Women's Laser Radial class
and she finished tenth.
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1987 births
Living people
English sailors
Olympic sailors for Great Britain
British female sailors (sport)
Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Laser Radial
Sportspeople from Wolverhampton
Sailors at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Laser Radial
Sailors at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Laser Radial