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Lucy Macgregor: World Most Accomplished Sailor
 Lucy
MacGregor is presently ranked by International Sailing Federation at World
number One in Fleet Racing with 9981 points. She represents Great Britain. She
started racing at the age of thirteen.
Lucy MacGregor was born on 28th November 1986. She is an English sailor. She was
born in Poole, Dorset. As of 2012, MacGregor is 1.58 metres (5 ft 2 in) tall and
weighs 63 kilograms (140 lb). She attended Bournemouth School for Girls and is a
member of Poole Yacht Club. She started sailing at the age of six in Poole
Harbour. MacGregor was candidate for selection for the 2008 Summer Olympics in
the Yngling three-person keelboat class with crewmates Annie Lush and double
Olympic gold medallist Shirley Robertson. Despite winning the bronze medal at
the 2007 World Championships, the trio were overlooked for selection in favour
of Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb and Pippa Wilson who ended up winning gold in the
Olympic event.
In 2010 MacGregor teamed up with her younger sister Kate MacGregor, Annie Lush
and Mary Rook to win gold at the ISAF women's match racing World Championship in
Newport, Rhode Island, United States. The British crew won the final 32 over an
American team helmed by two-time world title-winner Sally Barkow. At the 2011
Sailing World Championships in Perth, Australia, MacGregor reached the final of
the match-racing event, as part of a crew with Lush and Kate MacGregor, where
they were beaten 40 by the United States boat skippered by Anna Tunnicliffe. The
three won a gold medal at the 2011 World Cup event in Hy�res, France by beating
Barkow's crew 30 in the final.
MacGregor was selected to compete for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics
in the newly created Elliott 6 metres match-racing event. She will compete
alongside her sister Kate MacGregor and Annie Lush. Together the three are
nicknamed the "Match Race Girls". The event will take place at the Weymouth and
Portland National Sailing Academy with the round robin group stage being held
from 29 July to 4 August 2012.
 Her profile on
http://www.matchracegirls.com says this about her "Lucy exudes a
relaxed and care-free attitude, however she is an extremely driven and
hard-working professional athlete. A real seat-of-the-pants sailor, Lucy has an
enormous natural talent and feel for reading the wind, waves, and her opponents,
and an instinctively sharp tactical mind that is so essential for her success as
a match race skipper.
A successful youth career including Silver at the World Championships in the 420
dinghy provided Lucy the springboard to Olympic level sailing. Deferring entry
to university, she joined Shirley Robertsons Yngling campaign for the Bejing
Games, along with Annie, and has been a professional sailor ever since".
On her progress from a club sailor to an Olympic class sailor she says " I
started sailing at Poole Yacht Club, just in the training sessions doing local
events, at around 13 I was then invited to sail with the national squad, and
from that I continued in the RYA nationals squads through into the 420. At the
420 world championships in Melbourne (2004) I was sailing with my older sister,
Nicky, where we finished second. From that moment we were invited to sail in the
Olympic development squad and thats really where my Olympic passion started".
Her crew members are Annie Lush and Kate Macgregor.
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Dated 01 January 2014
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