Sarah Ayton
Template:Short description Template:DMCA Template:DMCA
Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born | Script error: No such module "person date". Ashford, Surrey, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | Script error: No such module "person date". | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | Script error: No such module "ConvertIB". | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record Page Template:Infobox/mobileviewfix.css has no content.
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".
Sarah Lianne Ayton OBE (born 9 April 1980 in Ashford, Surrey) is an English former professional sailor.
She won a gold medal in the Yngling sailing class in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens,[1] together with Shirley Robertson and Sarah Webb, and another gold medal in the Yngling sailing class in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, together with Pippa Wilson and Sarah Webb.
She retired from competitive sailing in 2011, citing the competing demands of motherhood.[2]
In 2015 Ayton was the winner of the Female World Sailor of the Year Awards – "the highest award a sailor can receive in recognition of their outstanding achievements in the world of sailing".[3][4]
Having been appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2005 New Year Honours, Ayton was promoted to Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.[5][6] She was awarded an honorary MSc by the University of Chichester in 2009.[7]She is divorced from windsurfer Nick Dempsey. Together, they have two sons Thomas-Flynn, who was born on 28 June 2009 and Oscar-Flynn George who was born on 7 March 2012. Sarah married Ashley Harris 12 February 2022
Ayton is a patron of Meningitis UK. Ayton battled with meningococcal meningitis and septicaemia in 1995, when she was aged 14. In 2015 she visited Bosham sailing club, to present prizes at the racing prizegiving.
She retains an active interest in sport, including amateur horse racing.[8]
Footnotes
Page Template:Reflist/styles.css has no content.
- ^ Script error: No such module "webarchive".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Double Olympic champion Sarah Ayton quits". The Guardian. 16 February 2011. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Sarah Ayton World Sailor of the year". extremesailingseries.com. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Sailing, saddling up and sacrifice". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
- ^ "New Year Honours--United Kingdom", The London Gazette of Thursday 30 December 2004 Supplement No. 1; accessed 28 August 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.[Script error: No such module "London Gazette util". "No. 58929"]. The London Gazette (Script error: No such module "London Gazette util".). 31 December 2008. p. Script error: No such module "London Gazette util"..
{{cite magazine}}: Check|url=value (help); More than one of|pages=and|page=specified (help)Script error: No such module "London Gazette util". - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Graduation". University of Chichester. Retrieved 24 May 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Sarah Ayton: Double Olympic sailing champion to ride amateur race at Goodwood". BBC Sport. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
External links
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Navbox/configuration' not found. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Navbox/configuration' not found.
Template:Asbox
Template:UK-yachtracing-bio-stub
Template:England-yachtracing-bio-stub
.svg){kind=link}