Sharon Marie Ferris (born 17 January 1974 in

Scarborough Scarborough or Scarboro may refer to: People * Scarborough (surname) * Earl of Scarbrough Places Australia * Scarborough, Western Australia, suburb of Perth * Scarborough, New South Wales, suburb of Wollongong * Scarborough, Queensland, sub ...

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, Canada) is an

Olympic Olympic or Olympics may refer to Sports Competitions * Olympic Games, international multi-sport event held since 1896 ** Summer Olympic Games ** Winter Olympic Games * Ancient Olympic Games, ancient multi-sport event held in Olympia, Greece bet ...

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for New Zealand. Ferris competed at the

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

and

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

Olympics. She sailed on '' Amer Sports Too'' in the 2001–02 Volvo Ocean Race.

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* * * * 1974 births Living people New Zealand female sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for New Zealand Sailors at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Europe Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Yngling Volvo Ocean Race sailors Canadian emigrants to New Zealand Sportspeople from Scarborough, Ontario 21st-century New Zealand people {{NewZealand-yachtracing-bio-stub