Pamela Katherine Healy (born June 24, 1963 in

San Francisco, California San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

) is a retired female

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from the

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, who won a bronze medal at the

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in Barcelona, Spain. She did so in the

470 class The 470 (Four-Seventy) is a double-handed monohull planing dinghy with a centreboard, Bermuda rig, and centre sheeting. Equipped with a spinnaker, trapeze and a large sail-area-to-weight ratio, it is designed to plane easily, and good teamwork i ...

, alongside Jennifer Isler. Pam grew up sailing in the SF Bay Area. Her parents, John and Mary Poletti, sailed in the large (at the time) Cal-20 fleet. Pam learned to sail in her yellow El Toro named "Woodstock" with the likes of

John Kostecki John Paul Kostecki (born July 7, 1964) is an American competitive sailor of Polish descent. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He started his sailing career in the San Francisco Bay, California. Events World Championships Kostecki won a n ...

at the Richmond Yacht Club where she met her husband

Craig Healy Craig Healy (born: 9 September 1957) is a sailor from San Pablo, California, United States. who represented his country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia as crew member in the Soling The Soling is an open keelboat that holds th ...

. Pam joined the St. Francis Yacht Club as a Junior Member in 1983. Pam resides in Marin County with her husband, Craig, and their three children.

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* * * 1963 births Living people American female sailors (sport) Sailors at the 1992 Summer Olympics – 470 Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in sailing Sportspeople from San Francisco 470 class world champions Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics World champions in sailing for the United States 21st-century American women {{US-yachtracing-bio-stub