Philippa Claire Wilson
MBE (born 7 February 1986 in
Southampton
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) is an
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professional
sailor
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. She started her sailing career in the youth class dinghy, Cadet, then progressed to the
29er, 420, 470 then Yngling, in which she won an Olympic gold medal in 2008. Based in Dubai, she teaches dinghy sailing, and is Executive Director of the 29er Class Association.
2008 Olympic Games
Wilson won a gold medal in the
Yngling
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sailing class in the
2008 Summer Olympics
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in
Beijing
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, together with
Sarah Webb and
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 ...
.
Honour
Wilson was appointed
Member of the Order of the British Empire
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(MBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.
Post-competitive career
She was awarded an honorary MSc by the University of Chichester in 2009. In 2024 she was a judge of the World Sailing Awards. She is (under her married name, Pippa Kenton-Page) based in Dubai where she teaches dinghy sailing, and in 2024 she was appointed Executive Director of the
29er Class Association.
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Living people
1986 births
English female sailors (sport)
Sportspeople from Southampton
Yngling class world champions
SB20 class world champions
World champions in sailing for Great Britain
English Olympic competitors
Olympic medalists in sailing
Olympic sailors for Great Britain
Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Yngling
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Extreme Sailing Series sailors
21st-century English sportswomen
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