Luke Ramsay

{{short description|Canadian sailor}}

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| nationality = {{CAN}}

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1988|1|30|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada

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| height = {{height|m=1.73|abbr=on}}

| weight = {{convert|68|kg|lb|0|abbr=on}}

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| classes = Dinghy, multihull

| club = Royal Vancouver Yacht Club

| coach = Ian Andrews

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{{MedalSport | Sailing }}

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{{MedalCompetition | Pan American Games }}

{{MedalSilver | 2019 Lima | Open Sunfish }}

{{MedalSilver | 2015 Toronto | Open Sunfish }}

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Luke Ramsay (born 31 January 1988) is a Canadian sailor, who specialized in two-person dinghy (470) and mixed multihull (Nacra 17) classes.{{cite web |title=Luke Ramsay |url=http://www.london2012.com/athlete/ramsay-luke-1092378/ |work=London 2012 Olympics |publisher=London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games |access-date=21 September 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130407121451/http://www.london2012.com/athlete/ramsay-luke-1092378/ |archive-date=7 April 2013 }}{{cite sports-reference |title=Luke Ramsay |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ra/luke-ramsay-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418090915/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ra/luke-ramsay-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |access-date=2 July 2015}} He represented Canada, along with his partner and Olympic veteran Mike Leigh, at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and has also been training throughout his sailing career for the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club under his personal coach Ian Andrews.{{cite news |title=Luke Ramsay Profile |url=https://vancouversun.com/sports/2012-summer-games/sailing/LUKE+RAMSAY/6732409/story.html |publisher=Vancouver Sun |date=5 June 2012 |access-date=2 July 2015 |archivedate=5 December 2015 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151205055623/http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/2012-summer-games/sailing/LUKE+RAMSAY/6732409/story.html |url-status=deviated }} As of June 2015, Ramsay is ranked among the top 100 sailors in the world for the two-person dinghy class, and sixteenth for the mixed multihull class.

Ramsay qualified as a crew member for the Canadian squad in the men's 470 class at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London by having achieved a berth and finishing twenty-second from the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain.{{cite news |first=Oliver |last=Bone |title=Bone: Canadian sailors earn Olympic berths in Miami |url=http://www2.tsn.ca/story/?id=386433 |publisher=The Sports Network |date=30 January 2012 |access-date=2 July 2015 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304025026/http://www2.tsn.ca/story/?id=386433 |url-status=dead }} Sailing with skipper Leigh in the opening series, the Canadian duo posted a grade of 179 net points to earn a twenty-fifth-place finish in a fleet of twenty-seven boats.{{cite web |title=Men's 470 |url=http://www.london2012.com/sailing/event/470-men/phase=sam005910/doc=summary.html |publisher=London 2012 |access-date=27 November 2012 |archive-date=30 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530111345/http://www.london2012.com/sailing/event/470-men/phase%3Dsam005910/doc%3Dsummary.html |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |title=From RS:X And 470 To The Nacra 17 |url=http://www.sailing.org/news/33872.php |publisher=ISAF |date=30 January 2013 |access-date=2 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150710201833/http://www.sailing.org/news/33872.php |archive-date=10 July 2015}}

Since his Olympic debut at London 2012, Ramsay has teamed up with windsurfer and three-time Olympian Nikola Girke in the mixed multihull class Nacra 17. They competed together for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, scoring 15th (of 20 competitors).{{cite news |title=Canada's sailing roster makes Nikola Girke a 4-time Olympian |url=http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/rio2016/sailing/sailing-team-named-1.3663599 |publisher=CBC News |date=4 July 2016 |access-date=4 July 2016}}