Mary Ellen Gaillard (born August 8, 1973) is an American
competitive sailor who competed in the
2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece.
The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...
.
Sailing career
Gaillard was born in
Huntington, New York
Huntington is one of ten Administrative divisions of New York#Town, towns in Suffolk County, New York, Suffolk County, New York (state), New York, United States. The town's population was 204,127 at the time of the 2020 census, making it the 11 ...
.
During her youth, she sailed
Optimist
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dinghy and with the family's
Etchells
The International Etchells Class is one-design sailboat racing class, designed by American Skip Etchells.
Production
The first 36 boats were built by Skip Etchells and the Old Greenwich Boat Company between 1967 and 1969. In the early 1970s ...
.
She attended
Connecticut College
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, graduating in 1995, where she also represented the school's sailing and soccer teams.
Meg Gaillard won the bronze medal at the 2000
Europe World Championships Europe World Championships are World sailing championships in the Europe class that have been held annually since 1966 (open event).
Since 1978 the event is split into a female and a male event have been held in conjunction. The event is organized ...
in Brazil. She was then runner-up in the 2000 US Olympic trials for the
Europe event and missed the cut.
[ Gaillard won another bronze medal in the Eurepoe class at the ]2003 ISAF Sailing World Championships
2003 ISAF Sailing World Championships was the first edition of the ISAF Sailing World Championships and was held in Cádiz, Spain from 11 September to 24 September.
Venue
The venue for the 2003 ISAF Sailing World Championships was Cádiz with thre ...
.[ At the 2004 Summer Olympics, Gaillard finished 14th.][
]
Personal life
Meg Gaillard is the daughter of Ann and Skip Gaillard.[
]
References
External links
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1973 births
Living people
American female sailors (sport)
Olympic sailors for the United States
Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Europe
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American sportswomen
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