Lucy MacGregor (born 28 November 1986) is an English

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. She was born in

Poole Poole () is a coastal town and seaport on the south coast of England in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole unitary authority area in Dorset, England. The town is east of Dorchester, Dorset, Dorchester and adjoins Bournemouth to the east ...

, Dorset. , MacGregor is tall and weighs . She attended

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and is a member of Poole Yacht Club. She started sailing at the age of six in

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. MacGregor was candidate for selection for the

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in the

Yngling The Ynglings were a dynasty of kings, first in Sweden and later in Norway, primarily attested through the poem ''Ynglingatal''. The dynasty also appears as Scylfings (, ) in ''Beowulf''. When ''Beowulf'' and ''Ynglingatal'' were composed sometime ...

three-person keelboat class with crewmates

Annie Lush Annie Lush (born 11 April 1980) is an English sailor. She was born in Poole, Dorset. , Lush is tall and weighs . Lush attended Cambridge University, where she was awarded Blues in rowing, sailing and rugby. Lush was a candidate for selection ...

and double Olympic gold medallist

Shirley Robertson Shirley Ann Robertson, OBE DL (born 15 July 1968) is a British sailor and Olympic gold medallist. She is the first British woman to win Olympic gold medals at consecutive Olympic Games, Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004. Early life Robertson ...

. Despite winning the bronze medal at the 2007 World Championships, the trio were overlooked for selection in favour of

Sarah Ayton Sarah Lianne Ayton (born 9 April 1980 in Ashford, Surrey) is an English former professional sailor. She won a gold medal in the Yngling sailing class in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, together with Shirley Robertson and Sarah Webb, and ...

, Sarah Webb and Pippa Wilson who ended up winning gold in the Olympic event. In 2010 MacGregor teamed up with her younger sister Kate MacGregor,

and Mary Rook to win gold at the ISAF women's match racing World Championship in

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, United States. The British crew won the final 3–2 over an American team helmed by two-time world title-winner

Sally Barkow Sally Barkow (born 10 July 1980) is an American Olympic sailor. She won the 2004 and 2005 ISAF Women's Match Racing World Championship, is a three-time winner of the International Women's Keelboat Championship, and competed at the 2008 Summer Oly ...

. At the 2011 Sailing World Championships in

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, Australia, MacGregor reached the final of the match-racing event, as part of a crew with Lush and Kate MacGregor, where they were beaten 4–0 by the United States boat skippered by Anna Tunnicliffe. The three won a gold medal at the 2011 World Cup event in

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, France by beating Barkow's crew 3–0 in the final. MacGregor was selected to compete for

Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics Great Britain and Northern Ireland, represented by the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, from 27 July to 12 August 2012 as the host nation and the team of selected athletes was o ...

in the newly created Elliott 6 metres match-racing event. She competed alongside her sister Kate MacGregor and

. Together the three were nicknamed the "Match Race Girls". The event took place at the

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with the round robin group stage being held from 29 July to 4 August 2012. The team finished in seventh place. In 2013, MacGregor won the inaugural

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tour.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:MacGregor, Lucy 1986 births Living people British female sailors (sport) English female sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for Great Britain Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Elliott 6m Sportspeople from Poole 21st-century English sportswomen