Giles Scott
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| Full name | Giles Lyndon Scott | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 June 1987 Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England, UK | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Class | Finn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Giles Lyndon Scott MBE (born 23 June 1987) is a British competitive sailor and four-time Finn Gold Cup winner and two-time Olympic gold medallist who won the gold medal for Team GB in the Finn Class at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro where having dominated the class, Scott secured his place in the history books winning the gold medal with a day to spare.[1][2] In January 2024, Scott took over the Driver role of the Emirates Great Britain SailGP Team from Sir Ben Ainslie. He secured his first SailGP event win in Halifax, Canada, in June 2024 winning the inaugural ROCKWOOL Canada Sail Grand Prix. Scott was Head of Sailing for Ainslie's British America's Cup Team, INEOS Britannia competing in the 37th America's Cup in Barcelona. In September 2024, Scott was announced as Driver for Canada's NorthStar SailGP Team, taking over from Phil Robertson who was at the helm for SailGP seasons 3 and 4.
Early life and education
[edit]Scott was born in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, to John and Rosalind Scott. His father was a sports administrator and latterly director of the U.K. Anti Doping Agency and Chief Executive of the 2014 Commonwealth Games. His mother was a special needs teacher. Aged 1, he moved to Canada in 1988 where his father worked for the Federal Minister for Amateur Sport. It was in Canada that he had his first sailing experience in dinghies on the Ottawa River. He returned aged 6 in 1993 and was re-introduced to sailing at the inland reservoir at Grafham Water, Cambridgeshire where his parents encouraged him to take up junior competitive sailing. He was educated at Sharnbrook Upper School in Bedfordshire and the University of Southampton where he graduated with a BSc in Geography.
Titles
[edit]World Championships titles
[edit]- 1st 2005 ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships - Laser
- 1st 2008 Finn Junior World Championship
- 1st 2011 Finn World Championship
- 1st 2014 Finn World Championship
- 1st 2015 Finn World Championship
- 1st 2016 Finn World Championship
European Championships titles
[edit]- 1st 2011 Finn European Championships
- 1st 2014 Finn European Championships
- 1st 2019 Finn European Championships
Olympic titles
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Scofield, Daniel (14 August 2016). "Giles Scott secures sailing Olympic gold in Finn class, continuing Britain's glorious tradition". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
- ^ "Rio 2016: Eight sailors named in Team GB Rio Olympic squad". BBC. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
- ^ "Rio Olympics 2016: Giles Scott guaranteed gold in Finn class". BBC Sport. 14 August 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
External links
[edit]- RYA Profile at the Wayback Machine (archived 19 May 2018)
- Land Rover BAR Profile at the Wayback Machine (archived 8 December 2017)
- Giles Scott at World Sailing
- Giles Scott at Team GB
- Giles Scott at Olympics.com
- Giles Scott at Olympedia (archive)
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- 1987 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Huntingdon
- British people of English descent
- English male sailors (sport)
- English Olympic competitors
- Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic medalists in sailing
- Olympic sailors for Great Britain
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Sailors at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Finn
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Sailors at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Finn
- Extreme Sailing Series sailors
- Finn class world champions
- World champions in sailing for Great Britain
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- 2013 America's Cup sailors
- 2017 America's Cup sailors
- 2021 America's Cup sailors
- Luna Rossa Challenge sailors
- People educated at Sharnbrook Academy
- Alumni of the University of Southampton
- 21st-century English sportsmen