Sarah Blanck (born 18 January 1977 in Melbourne) is an Australian sailor . In 2002, she won the Olympic class

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World Championships. Blanck won the ISAF Youth World Championship in 1995 and the

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Women's World Championships in 1997. A member of the

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, she has represented Australia at both the

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and the

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, sailing the women's singlehanded dinghy, the Laser Radial. In both Games she finished fourth. She was an

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scholarship holder.AIS at the Olympics
Blanck attended Luther College during her high school years.

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* 1977 births Living people Australian female sailors (sport) Laser Radial class world champions World champions in sailing for Australia Olympic sailors for Australia Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Europe Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Laser Radial Australian Institute of Sport sailors 21st-century Australian sportswomen Sailors (sport) from Melbourne {{Australia-yachtracing-bio-stub