Daniel Willcox
{{short description|New Zealand sailor}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=December 2024}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2017}}
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| club = Murrays Bay Sailing Club
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{{MedalSport | Men's sailing}}
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{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}
{{MedalSilver|2016 San Isidro| 470 class}}
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Daniel Willcox (born 8 June 1990) is a New Zealand sailor.
Early life
Willcox was born in 1990 in Takapuna on Auckland's North Shore.{{cite web |title=Dan Willcox |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/135407 |publisher=Olympedia |access-date=3 June 2021}} His father, Hamish Willcox, was a professional sailor who competed in the America's Cup and his sister, Anna Willcox-Silfverberg, competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in freestyle skiing.{{cite news |work=The New Zealand Herald |url= http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11616513 |title=Sailing: Family success drives Hamish Willcox |date=4 April 2016 |access-date=3 June 2021 |first=Dale |last=Budge}}{{cite news |work=The New Zealand Herald |date=30 June 2000 |url= http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=119709 |title=Mates sail above Cup rivalry |first=Suzanne |last=McFadden |access-date=3 June 2021 }}
Professional career
He was a competitor in the 2016 470 World Championships in San Isidro, Buenos Aires where he won a silver medal.{{cite news |work=Radio New Zealand |url= https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/297651/nz-sailing-crews-pick-up-world-champs-silver |title=NZ sailing crews pick up World Champs silver |date=28 February 2016 |access-date=3 June 2021 }} Willcox competed at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics in the Men's 470 alongside Paul Snow-Hansen; they finished in tenth place.
References
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External links
- {{World Sailing|dan-willcox|Dan Willcox|id=NZLDW8}}
- {{NZOC profile|daniel-willcox|Dan Willcox}}
- {{Olympics.com profile|daniel-willcox|Daniel Willcox}}
- {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170428221054/https://www.yachtingnz.org.nz/sailor/daniel-willcox |title=Daniel Willcox at Yachting New Zealand |date=dmy}}
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Category:New Zealand male sailors (sport)
Category:Sailors at the 2016 Summer Olympics – 470
Category:Olympic sailors for New Zealand
Category:Sailors (sport) from Auckland
Category:Sailors at the 2020 Summer Olympics – 470
Category:21st-century New Zealand sportsmen
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