Anna Burnet (born 27 September 1992) is a British Olympic silver medallist and two-time world champion in sailings Mixed multihull Olympic discipline. She lives in Scotland. In 2020 she became world champion in the Nacra 17 World Championship with partner John Gimson. They were selected for the British Olympic team and gained silver medals at the

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. The pair continued their good run to win the 2021 World and European Championships.

Early life and career

Burnet was born in 1992. Her father was keen on sailing and her uncle, an inspiration, was the sailor Sir Peter Blake. As a teenager she went to train with Olympian

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who helped her to plan her ambitions to think about attending one to win at one later. She was sailing in

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class and became the female national champion. She moved onto the

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class and in time to

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boats. She took a degree in Sports Studies at

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. She and Gimson won a gold medal during

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in 2018. She represented the UK, along with partner John Gimson, in the

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class at the

in Tokyo. This fitted in with her plans as she and Gimson had decided to compete at the

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in Paris. In 2020 the World Championship was in Australia, and as they practised there they had to wear face masks to prevent inhaling smoke from the 2020 Australian wildfire. They won and were world champions when the 2020 Olympics was postponed for a year and other important events were cancelled as a result of the

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. They were selected for the British Olympic team which was then planned to be in staged in 2020 in Tokyo. They were chosen before their British rival sailing team of Nicola Boniface and Ben Saxton. At the Tokyo Olympics they raced their boat at

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alongside their Italian training partners of

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and

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. They finished behind them and were awarded with silver medals. In July 2024 she was preparing for the

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to compete again at sailing in

. At the Olympics in August 2024 she and her partner were disqualified from the Nacra 17 medel race. They crossed the starting line early and failed to return to the start line. Having gone to the medal race in third position overall, this meant that they lost their medal and finished fourth overall. The two were due to marry in the following month. In 2024, she was also a member of the first team of women to compete for the Women's America's Cup. Other team members were Tash Bryant,

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and

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captained by Hannah Mills. The team made it through the heats and their boat

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was beaten in the finals in October by the Italians.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Burnet, Anna Living people 1992 births Alumni of the University of Southampton English female sailors (sport) Olympic medalists in sailing Olympic sailors for Great Britain Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Sailors at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Nacra 17 Sailors at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Nacra 17 Nacra 17 class sailors Nacra 17 class world champions People from Hammersmith Sportspeople from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain 21st-century English sportswomen