Barbara Anne Kendall (born 30 August 1967) is a former boardsailor from New Zealand. She competed at five

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and won gold, silver and bronze medals.

Biography

Kendall was born in

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on 30 August 1967, the daughter of Tony and Peggy Kendall. She was raised in the Auckland suburb of Bucklands Beach and attended

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. She won a gold medal at the

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, silver medal in

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(in

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), and a bronze medal in

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(in

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).Profile: "Barbara Kendall"
''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved 22 December 2007) Kendall finished 5th at the 2004 Games in

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and sixth at the 2008 Games in

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. She was the first, and as of 2008. (She has since been joined by Valerie Adams, Tokyo 2021. Luuka Jones has stated her intention to compete in her fifth Olympics in Paris 2024 to join them.) During 1998, she had founded

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on the coast of Auckland. In 2008, she returned and created a mural for the school. Kendall was the Oceania athletes' representative on the

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from 2005 to 2008, having replaced

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who resigned in 2005 (Kendall was the athlete from the same continent who had received the next highest number of votes for the commission), and was on the New Zealand Olympic Committee Athletes Commission until 2008. In July 2011, she was elected as a member of the

and the

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and sat on the Women and Sport Commission and Sport and the Environment Commission until August 2016. Kendall's brother Bruce is also an Olympic Gold medallist. They are the first brother and sister to have achieved this feat for New Zealand. Kendall officially retired from competitive board sailing in May 2010.

Honours and awards

In 1990, Kendall was awarded the

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. In the

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, she was appointed a

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, for services to boardsailing. In the

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, she was made a

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, for services to sport.

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* * * * , - , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Kendall, Barbara 1967 births Living people New Zealand windsurfers Sailors at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Lechner A-390 Sailors at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Mistral One Design Sailors at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Mistral One Design Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Mistral One Design Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – RS:X New Zealand female sailors (sport) Olympic gold medalists for New Zealand in sailing Olympic silver medalists for New Zealand Olympic bronze medalists for New Zealand International Olympic Committee members New Zealand sports executives and administrators New Zealand Members of the Order of the British Empire Female windsurfers People from Papakura Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics People educated at Macleans College Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit

Biography

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