Sarah Webb (sailor)
{{short description|British sailor}}
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{{MedalSport|Women's Sailing}}
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{{MedalGold|2004 Athens|Yngling class}}
{{MedalGold|2008 Beijing|Yngling class}}
{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2007 Cascais| Yngling}}
{{MedalGold|2008 Miami| Yngling}}
{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2008 Blanes| Yngling}}
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Sarah Kathleen Gosling {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} ({{nee}} Webb; born 13 January 1977 in Ashford, Surrey) is a British professional sailor and twice Olympic gold medalist.
Sailing career
Webb joined the Royal Yachting Association's youth squad and competed in the Laser Radial class in the ISAF Youth World Championships in 1995 and 1996.{{cite web |url=http://www.olympics.org.uk/beijing2008/AthleteProfile.aspx?id=5629 |title=Sarah Webb |publisher=olympics.org.uk |access-date=21 August 2008 |archive-date=26 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100226065358/http://www.olympics.org.uk/beijing2008/AthleteProfile.aspx?id=5629 |url-status=dead }}
She won a gold medal in the Yngling sailing class in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, together with Shirley Robertson and Sarah Ayton, collectively nicknamed "Three Blondes in a Boat."{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/sailing/6243544.stm |title=Olympic shootout for Athens blondes |publisher=BBC Sport Online |date=2 July 2007 |access-date=12 August 2008}} She repeated this success in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, together with Pippa Wilson and Sarah Ayton.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics/sailing/7566219.stm |title=GB Yngling women breeze to gold |publisher=BBC Sport Online |date=17 August 2008 |access-date=17 August 2008}}{{cite Sports-Reference}}
In early 2007, Webb appeared on and won BBC cookery programme Ready Steady Cook against fellow Olympic medallist Nick Rogers.
Already a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.{{London Gazette |issue=58929 |date=31 December 2008 |page=13 |supp=y}}
She married multi-millionaire Adam Gosling, a son of the former car park tycoon Sir Donald Gosling in 2009.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/surrey/7877037.stm 'Nervous' Olympic sailor marries], BBC News, 9 February 2009. Retrieved 24 February 2009. They have a son.{{Cite web |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/gosling-insists-british-medal-hopes-are-buoyant-xr50xct962w |title=Gosling insists British medal hopes are buoyant |date=7 August 2011 |work=The Times |last=Townsend |first=Nick}}
References
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External links
- {{World Sailing|sarah-gosling|Sarah Gosling|id=GBRSW18}} ([https://web.archive.org/web/20230126133235/https://data-isaf.soticcloud.net/biog.php?memberid=39729 archive])
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20050209182255/http://www.ynglinggirls.com/ GB Yngling Team website]
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Category:English female sailors (sport)
Category:Sportspeople from Ashford, Surrey
Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Yngling class world champions
Category:World champions in sailing for Great Britain
Category:Olympic sailors for Great Britain
Category:English Olympic competitors
Category:Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
Category:Olympic medalists in sailing
Category:Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Yngling
Category:Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Yngling
Category:Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Category:Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Category:21st-century English sportswomen
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