Molly Brigid O'Bryan Vandemoer (born April 13, 1979) is an American
sailor
A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a person who works aboard a watercraft as part of its crew, and may work in any one of a number of different fields that are related to the operation and maintenance of a ship.
The profession of the s ...
who competed in the
2012 Summer Olympics in the
Elliott 6m
The Elliott 6m is an Olympic-class keelboat, designed by New Zealander, Greg Elliott. It was selected for the women's match race, match racing event for the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2012 Olympics. The Elliott 6m carries a spinnaker pole and Spinnake ...
class with
Anna Tunnicliffe
Anna Tunnicliffe Tobias (born October 17, 1982) is an American sailor and CrossFit competitor. In 2008 she won an Olympic gold medal in the Laser Radial single handed sailing class. In 2009 and 2011, she won the ISAF Sailing World Cup in Laser ...
and
Deborah Capozzi coming 5th overall. With Tunnicliffe and Capozzi, she also won the World title in 2011 and came second in 2012.
Previously, she was a High School National Champion, and competed with the
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
The University of Hawaii at Mānoa (University of Hawaii—Mānoa, UH Mānoa, Hawai'i, or simply UH) is a public land-grant research university in Mānoa, a neighborhood in Honolulu, Hawaii. It is the flagship campus of the University of Haw ...
sailing team, where she was the captain of the women's and co-ed teams, was named three-times ''ICSA All-American skipper'', and won the
ICSA Women's Dinghy National Championship in 2001. She was awarded the
Wayne Kight Memorial Trophy in 2001.
She also won, with
Anna Tunnicliffe
Anna Tunnicliffe Tobias (born October 17, 1982) is an American sailor and CrossFit competitor. In 2008 she won an Olympic gold medal in the Laser Radial single handed sailing class. In 2009 and 2011, she won the ISAF Sailing World Cup in Laser ...
, the
Women's Snipe World Championships in 2010.
She is currently the director of the Peninsula Youth Sailing Foundation (PYSF).
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1979 births
Living people
American female sailors (sport)
Olympic sailors for the United States
Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Elliott 6m
Snipe class female world champions
World champions in sailing for the United States
Hawaii Rainbow Warriors and Rainbow Wahine sailors
21st-century American women
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