Anna Burnet
{{Short description|British Olympic sailor (born 1992)}}
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| nationality = British
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| birth_place = Hammersmith, London, England
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{{MedalSport|Sailing}}
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{{MedalCompetition | Olympic Games}}
{{MedalSilver | Tokyo 2020 | Nacra 17 }}
{{MedalCompetition|Nacra 17 World Championship}}
{{Medal|Gold|2020 Geelong|Mixed}}
{{Medal|Gold|2021 Mussanah|Mixed}}
{{Medal|Silver|2024 La Grande-Motte|Nacra 17}}
{{Medal|Silver|2023 The Hague|Nacra 17}}
{{MedalCompetition|Nacra 17 European Championship}}
{{Medal|Gold|2023 Vilamoura|Nacra 17}}
{{Medal|Gold|2021 Thessaloniki|Mixed}}
{{Medal|Silver|2019 Weymouth|Mixed}}
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Anna Burnet (born 27 September 1992) is a British Olympic silver medallist and two-time world champion in sailings Mixed multihull Olympic discipline.{{Cite web |title=John Gimson and Anna Burnet |url=https://britishsailingteam.rya.org.uk/olympic-classes/nacra-17/john-gimson-and-anna-burnet/ |access-date=2 August 2021 |website=britishsailingteam.rya.org.uk |publisher=British Sailing Team |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802224619/https://britishsailingteam.rya.org.uk/olympic-classes/nacra-17/john-gimson-and-anna-burnet/ |archive-date=2 August 2021 }} She lives in Scotland. In 2020 she became world champion in the Nacra 17 World Championship with partner John Gimson. They were selected for the British Olympic team and gained silver medals at the 2020 Summer Olympics. The pair continued their good run to win the 2021 World and European Championships.
Early life and career
Burnet was born in 1992. Her father was keen on sailing and her uncle, an inspiration, was the sailor Sir Peter Blake. As a teenager she went to train with Olympian Joe Glanfield who helped her to plan her ambitions to think about attending one to win at one later.{{Cite web |date=23 July 2021 |title='Anything can happen in sailing': Burnet sets golden goal in Tokyo |url=http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jul/23/anything-can-happen-sailing-anna-burnet-sets-golden-goal-tokyo-olympics-nacra |access-date=3 August 2021 |website=The Guardian |language=en}} She was sailing in Optimist class and became the female national champion. She moved onto the 420 class and in time to 470 boats.
She took a degree in Sports Studies at Southampton University.
She and Gimson won a gold medal during Kiel Week in 2018.{{Cite web |title=Four medal haul for Brits at Kiel Week |url=https://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/231557/Four-medal-haul-for-Brits-at-Kiel-Week |access-date=20 August 2021 |website=yachtsandyachting.com}}
She represented the UK, along with partner John Gimson, in the Nacra 17 class at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. This fitted in with her plans as she and Gimson had decided to compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. In 2020 the World Championship was in Australia, and as they practised there they had to wear face masks to prevent inhaling smoke from the 2020 Australian wildfire.{{Cite web |title=Bushfires make training tough for Team GB sailors Gimson and Burnet |url=https://www.times-series.co.uk/sport/worldcup2010/world_cup_news/18184129.bushfires-make-training-tough-team-gb-sailors-gimson-burnet/ |access-date=3 August 2021 |website=Times Series |date=24 January 2020 |language=en}} They won and were world champions when the 2020 Olympics was postponed for a year and other important events were cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
They were selected for the British Olympic team which was then planned to be in staged in 2020 in Tokyo. They were chosen before their British rival sailing team of Nicola Boniface and Ben Saxton.{{Cite web |last=Peake |first=Rob |date=21 July 2021 |title=Anna Burnet: from the Gare Loch to Tokyo 2021 |url=https://britishsailingteam.rya.org.uk/anna-burnet-from-the-gare-loch-to-tokyo-2021/ |access-date=2 August 2021 |website=British Sailing Team |language=en-GB |archive-date=24 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024172101/https://britishsailingteam.rya.org.uk/anna-burnet-from-the-gare-loch-to-tokyo-2021/ |url-status=dead }} At the Tokyo Olympics they raced their boat at Enoshima alongside their Italian training partners of Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti. They finished behind them and were awarded with silver medals.{{Cite web |last=Harle |first=Tom |date=1 August 2021 |title=Leicester sailor John Gimson overcome with emotion after securing Olympic medal |url=https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/other-sport/leicester-sailor-john-gimson-olympics-5727984 |access-date=3 August 2021 |website=LeicestershireLive |language=en}}
In July 2024 she was preparing for the Paris 2024 Olympics to compete again at sailing in Nacra 17. At the Olympics in August 2024 she and her partner were disqualified from the Nacra 17 medel race. They crossed the starting line early and failed to return to the start line. Having gone to the medal race in third position overall, this meant that they lost their medal and finished fourth overall. The two were due to marry in the following month.{{Cite web |date=9 August 2024 |title=Here's what Rhu had to say about sailor Anna Burnet's disqualification at Olympics |url=https://www.helensburghadvertiser.co.uk/news/24507920.rhu-speaks-olympian-anna-burnets-disqualification/ |access-date=9 February 2025 |website=Helensburgh Advertiser |language=en}}
In 2024, she was also a member of the first team of women to compete for the Women's America's Cup. Other team members were Tash Bryant, Hattie Rogers, Saskia Tidey and Ellie Aldridge captained by Hannah Mills.{{Cite web |title=PUIG WOMEN’S AMERICA’S CUP UPDATE |url=https://www.americascup.com/news/3159_PUIG-WOMENS-AMERICAS-CUP-UPDATE |access-date=9 February 2025 |website=37th America's Cup |language=en}} The team made it through the heats and their boat Athena Pathway was beaten in the finals in October by the Italians.{{Cite web |date=12 October 2024 |title=Athena Pathway ‘proud’ to have competed in first ever Women’s America’s Cup Final |url=https://www.athenapathway.com/en/articles/64_Athena-Pathway-proud-to-have-competed-in-first-ever-Womens-Americas-Cup-Final.html |access-date=9 February 2024 |website=athenapathway}}
References
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External links
- {{World Sailing|id=GBRAB123|www=anna-burnet}}
- {{Olympics.com profile|anna-burnet}}
- {{Olympedia}}
{{Footer World Champions Nacra 17}}
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Category:Alumni of the University of Southampton
Category:English female sailors (sport)
Category:Olympic medalists in sailing
Category:Olympic sailors for Great Britain
Category:Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Category:Sailors at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Nacra 17
Category:Sailors at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Nacra 17
Category:Nacra 17 class sailors
Category:Nacra 17 class world champions
Category:People from Hammersmith
Category:Sportspeople from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham