Gordon Cook

{{short description|Canadian sailor}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Cook, Gordon

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1978|12|03}}

| birth_place = Toronto

| nationality = Canadian

| known_for =

| parents = Stephen Cook

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Gordon Cook (born December 3, 1978, in Toronto) is a two-time Canadian Olympic sailor. He sails for the Royal Canadian Yacht Club. He is the son of computer scientist Stephen Cook.{{cite web|title=Stephen A. Cook - Home Page|url=http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~sacook/}}

Cook is a graduate of the Engineering Physics program at Queen's University. At Queen's University, he also met his 2012 Olympic team partner Ben Remocker, where they were members of the university sailing team. Cook and Remocker became the first Canadians to sail a 49er in an Olympic Regatta at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, where they finished 14th.

In 2009 Cook partnered up with West Vancouver sailor Hunter Lowden and the two campaigned together for the 2012 Olympic games. While Cook and Lowden did not make the first round of qualifications at the 2011 ISAF worlds in December 2011 they did qualify at the 2012 49er worlds in Croatia making Cook the only person ever to represent Canada twice in the 49er Class at the Olympic Games. Cook and Lowden came third in the first race of the 49 year class in the 2012 Olympic games,{{cite news|title=Canadians third in first 49er class race of Olympic sailing regatta|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/olympics/canadians-third-in-first-49er-class-race-of-olympic-sailing-regatta/article4448351/|accessdate=8 August 2012|newspaper=The Globe and Mail|date=30 July 2012|archive-date=2 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120802025446/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/olympics/canadians-third-in-first-49er-class-race-of-olympic-sailing-regatta/article4448351/|url-status=dead}} but did not qualify for the medal race.{{cite news|last=Prest|first=Andy|title=Olympians hit highs and lows|url=http://www.nsnews.com/sports/Olympians+highs+lows/7056467/story.html|accessdate=8 August 2012|newspaper=North Shore News|date=8 August 2012|archive-date=11 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191211025403/http://www.nsnews.com/sports/Olympians+highs+lows/7056467/story.html|url-status=dead}}