Sarah Douglas (born 21 January 1994 in Burlington) is a Canadian competitive sailor. She won gold in the Laser Radial at the

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, and took silver in the

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competition in Santiago, Chile. She finished 6th at the 2018 Sailing World Championships. She competed at the

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in Japan, finishing 6th in the Laser Radial class.

Life

She was born in

Burlington, Ontario Burlington is a city in the Regional Municipality of Halton at the northwestern end of Lake Ontario in Ontario, Canada. Along with Milton to the north, it forms the western end of the Greater Toronto Area and is also part of the Hamilton met ...

. She started sailing at the age of 7 in Barbados and competed at her first world championship at age 10 in the optimist class. She was

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Canadian national champion. Douglas went to school at the University of Guelph for her Bachelor of Commerce; as of 2019, she lists Toronto as her hometown.

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* * * 1991 births Living people Canadian female sailors (sport) Sportspeople from Burlington, Ontario Sailors at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Pan American Games medalists in sailing Pan American Games gold medalists for Canada Sailors at the 2019 Pan American Games Sailors at the 2023 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games Sailors at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Laser Radial {{Canada-yachtracing-bio-stub