Barbara Kendall

Barbara Kendall ( born August 30, 1967 in Papakura ) is a New Zealand windsurfer. As the only woman she won three Olympic medals. In addition, it was five times World Champion. Her older brother Bruce Kendall is also a successful windsurfers.

Biography

At the age of 17, Kendall began windsurfing. Her first big success was in 1987 winning the World Championship title. In 1988 she gave up her previous job as a dance teacher and devoted himself entirely to the sport, because she wanted to emulate her brother, who had become Olympic champion this year. The Windsurfing Women -ended in New Zealand in the shadows. This changed dramatically when they won the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona ( it was the only New Zealand Olympic victory in this year).

At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta she wore during the opening ceremony of the Flag of New Zealand. In the Olympic regatta off Savannah she succumbed to the Hong Kong Chinese Lee Lai Shan and came in second. Four years later in Sydney it reached number 3 was followed by three more world titles in 1998, 1999 and 2002. With two false starts at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, she awarded the Olympic gold medal and was only fifth. In 2002 she won the fifth World Championship title; 2003, 2004 and 2007, she won at the World Championships each of the silver medal. With the successful qualification for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games will be the first New Zealand woman who has participated in five Olympic Games.

From July 2005 to August 2008, the mother of two, was the Representative of Oceania athletes in the International Olympic Committee. She solved this the Australian swimmer Susie O'Neill from which resigned (Kendall had received in the election for Athletes' Committee 's second most votes and moved automatically ). However, in the re-election in 2008 in Beijing she failed. At the Olympic sailing competition in Qingdao in 2008 she reached the sixth place.

Sailors' success

Olympic games

World Championships

Honors

  • New Zealand Sportswoman of the Year: 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2002
  • 2007 First Honorary Member ( Inductee ) in the newly created ISAF Sailing Hall of Fame
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