Aaron McIntosh

{{short description|New Zealand windsurfer}}

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| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|7 January 1972}}

| birth_place = Auckland, New Zealand

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Aaron McIntosh (born 7 January 1972 in Auckland) is a windsurfer from New Zealand who won a Bronze medal at 2000 in Sydney. He had previously just missed out on a medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta finishing a close fourth. At the World Mistral Championships he finished third in 1993, second in 1995 and won three times in 1994, 1997 and 1998.{{cite web |url= https://olympic.org.nz/athletes/aaron-mcintosh |title=Aaron McIntosh |publisher=New Zealand Olympic Committee}}

McIntosh attempted to qualify for a third Olympics at Beijing in the Soling class but was unsuccessful. He did qualify—with Mark Kennedy—for the two-man Tornado multihull class, but New Zealand did not send them to the games.{{cite news |url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/archived-stuff-sections/archived-sport-sections/olympics-2008/295181 |title=NZ get Olympics tornado spot: Aussies take out title |author=NZPA |date=1 March 2008 |publisher=stuff.co.nz |access-date=23 February 2010 |archive-date=24 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824134900/http://www.stuff.co.nz/archived-stuff-sections/archived-sport-sections/olympics-2008/295181 |url-status=dead }}

He is the coach of Dorian van Rijsselberghe, who won gold at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, as well as Kiran Badloe who won gold at the 2020 Olympics.[https://nos.nl/tokyo2020/artikel/2391819-badloe-had-het-zonder-dor-en-aaron-niet-gered-niet-ik-maar-we-hebben-goud Badloe had het zonder 'Dor' en Aaron niet gered: 'Niet ik, maar we hebben goud'] NOS.nl, 31 July 2021.