Meg Gaillard
{{short description|American yacht racer}}
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{{Notability|Biography|date=April 2023}}
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| full_name = Mary Ellen Gaillard
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1973|8|8}}
| birth_place = Huntington, New York, United States
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| classes = Europe
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| collegeteam = Connecticut College
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{{MedalSport|Women's sailing}}
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{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}
{{MedalBronze|2000 Salvador da Bahia|Europe}}
{{MedalBronze|2003 Cádiz|Europe}}
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Mary Ellen Gaillard (born August 8, 1973) is an American competitive sailor who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ga/meg-galliard-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418093913/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ga/meg-galliard-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 18, 2020 |accessdate=May 7, 2015}}
Sailing career
Gaillard was born in Huntington, New York.{{cite web | url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/104008 | title=Olympedia – Meg Galliard }} During her youth, she sailed Optimist dinghy and with the family's Etchells.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/25/sports/boating-report-focused-on-steering-a-dinghy-to-sydney.html | title=BOATING REPORT; Focused on Steering a Dinghy to Sydney | work=The New York Times | date=July 25, 1999 | last1=Kelly | first1=Caitlin }} She attended Connecticut College, graduating in 1995, where she also represented the school's sailing and soccer teams.{{cite web | url=https://camelathletics.com/honors/connecticut-college-athletic-hall-of-fame/meg-gaillard/103 | title=Meg Gaillard (2005) - Connecticut College Athletic Hall of Fame }}
Meg Gaillard won the bronze medal at the 2000 Europe World Championships in Brazil.{{cite web | url=https://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/782/Europe-World-Championships-Overall | title=Europe World Championships Overall }} She was then runner-up in the 2000 US Olympic trials for the Europe event and missed the cut. Gaillard won another bronze medal in the Eurepoe class at the 2003 ISAF Sailing World Championships.{{cite web | url=http://www.sailing.org/23732.php?rgtaid=5552&evntid=1709&nocache=1#results | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120427171746/http://www.sailing.org/23732.php?rgtaid=5552&evntid=1709&nocache=1#results | archive-date=April 27, 2012 | title=ISAF : ISAF Sailing World Championships 2003 }} For the next Olympics, she qualified for the Olympic Europe event. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, Gaillard finished 14th.
Personal life
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Category:American female sailors (sport)
Category:Olympic sailors for the United States
Category:Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Europe
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:21st-century American sportswomen
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