Tom Slingsby (born 5 September 1984) is a successful Australian competitive sailor. Slingsby's first successes came sailing

Laser dinghy The Laser is a class of single-handed, one-design sailing dinghies using a common hull design with three interchangeable rigs of different sail areas, appropriate to a given combination of wind strength and crew weight. Bruce Kirby designed ...

s, where he won three consecutive world championships and the 2012 Olympic gold medal. Slingsby was the strategist for the

America's Cup The America's Cup, informally known as the Auld Mug, is a trophy awarded in the sport of sailing. It is the oldest international competition still operating in any sport. America's Cup match races are held between two sailing yachts: one f ...

-winning Team Oracle USA in 2013. In 2016 he skippered the winner-of-line honours in the

Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is an annual event hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, starting in Sydney, New South Wales, on Boxing Day and finishing in Hobart, Tasmania. The race distance is approximately . The race is run i ...

line. Following this he skippered the Australian team in the inaugural

SailGP SailGP is an international sailing (sport), sailing competition using high performance F50 (catamaran), F50 Sailing hydrofoil, foiling catamarans, where teams compete across a season of multiple grands prix around the world. Its reigning champio ...

competition.

Career highlights

2007 – Won the

world championships. 2008 – Ranked number one in the Laser dinghy class prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics Laser competition but finished 22nd overall. 2008 – Won

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Male Sailor of the Year Award 2010 – Won the Laser dinghy world championships at Hayling Island, UK. He was also named the male ISAF World Sailor of the Year. 2010 – Won the

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Class World Championship as crew with Andrew Palfry, with fellow America's Cup legend John Bertrand helming. 2011 – Won the Laser ISAF World Sailing Championships at Fremantle, Australia. 2011 – Won Australian Sailing Male Sailor of the Year Award 2012 – Won the Laser dinghy world championship at Boltenhagen Germany for his fifth world title 2012 – Won the Men's Laser Gold Medal at the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

in London. 2012 – Won the

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Athlete of the Year Award with swimmer

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. 2012 – Won

Male Sailor of the Year Award 2013 – Won the 34th

as the strategist in

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. Re-signed with Oracle for their defence of the cup. 2016 – Won the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race skippering the supermaxi yacht

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. 2019 – Won the inaugural

skippering the Australian Team sailing F50 foiling catamarans. 2019 – Won the Chandler Macleod

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Worlds 2020 – Won Australian Sailing Male Sailor of the Year Award 2021 – Won the

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. 2022 – Won Australian Sailing Male Sailor of the Year Award In December 2013 Slingsby was a crew member aboard racing supermaxi yacht Perpetual Loyal in the

2013 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race The 2013 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, sponsored by Rolex and hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia in Sydney, New South Wales, is the 69th annual running of the "blue water classic" Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. The 2013 edition began ...

, with his other celebrity crew members,

Karl Stefanovic Karl Stefanovic ( sr-Cyrl, Карл Стефановић; born 12 August 1974), also spelt Karl Stefanović, is an Australian television presenter and journalist for the Nine Network. Stefanovic is currently a co-host of the Nine Network's ...

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and

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. Slingsby received the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the

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for "service to sport as a gold medallist at the London 2012 Olympic Games". Slingsby, as the Captain of Team Australia, won the 2019 season 1 of Sail GPTom Slingsby on Sail Sport Talk on Sports Byline
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References

External links

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"Australian Olympic Committee profile"
olympics.com.au * ILC
"Laser Standard World Championship 2012"
laserinternational.org * Sponso
Hobart Yacht Race
{{DEFAULTSORT:Slingsby, Tom 1984 births Living people Australian Institute of Sport sailors Australian male sailors (sport) ISAF World Sailor of the Year (male) World champions in sailing for Australia Etchells class world champions Laser class world champions Moth class world champions 2017 America's Cup sailors 2013 America's Cup sailors Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia SailGP Olympic sailors of Australia Olympic gold medalists for Australia Olympic medalists in sailing Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Laser Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Laser Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics