Shirley Robertson

Shirley Anne Robertson, OBE ( born July 15, 1968 in Dundee, Scotland) is a British sailor and television presenter. She is one of only two women who have won two gold medals so far at the Olympic sailing competitions.

The age of seven, she learned to sail on the Loch Ard, a lake in Scotland. In the early 1990s, she came in the boat class Europe before the world leaders and reached at the Summer Olympic Games in 1992 to ninth place. Four years later, she missed the medals in fourth place just as well in 1997 at the World Championships. In 1998 and 1999 she was World Cup Second or third parties. At the Summer Olympics in Sydney in 2000 she won her first gold medal. The International Sailing Federation chose to Weltseglerin of the year.

In 2001, Robertson to Yngling boat class. After a prolonged period of acclimatization they won at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens a second gold medal, along with Sarah Ayton and Sarah Webb. With new sailing partners, she was third in the 2007 World Cup, but the Royal Yachting Association they are not taken into account in the selection for the 2008 Olympic Games. Since then it focuses on regattas in non-Olympic disciplines.

Robertson lives in Cowes on the Isle of Wight. She has been married since 2001 and is the mother of a son and a daughter ( twins). On CNN they moderated the emitted monthly shipment Mainsail, which reports on events in the world of sailing. Also in sports programs of BBC, she reported on the sport of sailing; In 2008, she will comment on the Olympic sailing events in Qingdao. She also advises the Organising Committee of the Olympic Games in 2012.