Janet Lee Shearer (born 17 July 1958) is a New Zealand sailor who competed for New Zealand at three

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and won a silver medal, with

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, at the

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, in the women's

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, sports-reference.com Shearer and Egnot finished second in the 1989 470 Class World Championships in Japan, she was part of the New Zealand crew that won the 1990 World Women's Match Racing Championships in New York; Jan Shearer and Fiona Galloway competed for New Zealand at the

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in the 470W Class, this was the first time ever that women had their own event in sailing at the Olympic Games. They finished 9th overall. Shearer and Galloway also won the centennial (100 year anniversary) of '

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' Germany in the 470W Class, in one of the largest fleets ever in women's dinghy sailing. Shearer and Egnot competed again at

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finishing 16th. Their competitiveness was hampered by an injury Egnot was carrying at the time. She later married fellow international yachtsman Murray Jones, a six-time America's Cup-winning sailor and designer, and five-time New Zealand Olympian. She commentated for TVNZ and

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VIPs during the

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and

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s; and completed a Master of Business Studies (Management of Sport, Honors) at Massey University in 2002. while working as an engineer. Her daughter, Gemma, is a sailor and competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Born in

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in 1958, Shearer was educated at

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and is a life member of Yachting NZ and Takapuna Boating Club. She was appointed to the Tennis NZ Board in 2012, in 2016 Shearer was elected to the board of Snow Sports NZ, and in 2017 to the Board of Canoe Racing NZ and Melanoma NZ. She spent 20 years working as an engineer, 5 years as Head of Performance at Tennis NZ and then 3 years as CEO of Snow Sports NZ.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shearer, Jan 1958 births Living people New Zealand female sailors (sport) Sailors at the 1988 Summer Olympics – 470 Sailors at the 1992 Summer Olympics – 470 Sailors at the 1996 Summer Olympics – 470 Olympic sailors for New Zealand Olympic silver medalists for New Zealand Sportspeople from Dunedin Olympic medalists in sailing People educated at Otago Girls' High School Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Massey University alumni New Zealand sports executives and administrators