Michael Leigh (born 25 November 1984) is a Canadian sailor, who specialized in one-person (
Laser
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) and two-person dinghy (
470
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) classes.
Representing
Canada
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in two editions of the Olympic Games, he finished ninth in the Laser class at Beijing 2008, and then twenty-fifth in the 470 class at London 2012 with his partner
Luke Ramsay. Leigh has also been training throughout his sailing career for the
Royal Vancouver Yacht Club
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under his Australian-born personal coach Joshua Chant.
Leigh made his Olympic debut at the
2008 Summer Olympics in
Beijing
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, where he sailed into the ninth position in the
men's Laser class with a grade of 109, missing out of the medal podium by 34 net points and surpassing Norway's
Kristian Ruth by a narrow, ten-point gap based on the total score.
At the
2012 Summer Olympics in
London
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, Leigh teamed up with skipper
Luke Ramsay to challenge the
men's 470 class after having achieved a berth and finishing twenty-second from the World Championships in
Barcelona, Spain. Sailing with Ramsay in the opening series, the Canadian duo posted a grade of 179 net points to earn a twenty-fifth-place finish in a fleet of twenty-seven boats.
References
External links
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Mike Leigh at NBC 2012 Summer Olympic Games website
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1984 births
Living people
Canadian male sailors (sport)
Olympic sailors for Canada
Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Laser
Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – 470
Sportspeople from Nanaimo