John Gimson
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| Nationality | British | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 March 1983 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Sailing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Rudyard Lake | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Iain Percy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Class | Nacra 17 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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John Gimson (born 11 March 1983) is an Olympic silver medallist (Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games). He is 3x World champion and 3x European champion in sailings Mixed multihull Olympic discipline.
Life
[edit]Gimson's youth career yielded silver medals at the World and European Championships and a 2013 Americas Cup appearance, as well as eight years racing keelboats. Gimson joined Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson in 2012 as their training partner in the Star class for the Olympic cycle ahead of the London Games but the Star class was dropped as an Olympic event following 2012, leading to his eventual switch to Nacra 17.[citation needed]
He also competed in the Paris 2024 Olympic games narrowly missing out on a medal after a disqualification in the medal race, leaving him 4th.
Gimson competed in Tokyo alongside Anna Burnet with silver in the Nacra 17 class at the 2020 Games. The duo have won in Olympic medals and winning the World championships 3 times 2020/2021/2025. They have also won the European championships 3 times 2021,2023,2025.
He and Burnet would cap off a remarkable day for British sailing on the Olympic stage in Japan, making history winning a silver Medal, the first ever British team to do so in the Mixed multihull, which debuted at Rio 2016, and taking Britain's first medal in a multihull class since Reg White & John Osborn's gold medal in the Tornado at Montreal 1976.
He represented Team GB, along with partner Anna Burnet, in the Nacra 17 class at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo winning a silver medal.[2] Gimson's World Championship success includes winning the 2020 Nacra 17 Worlds and 2nd place at the 29er World Championships.[3]
In 2025 he and Anna Burnet won Gold at the Long Beach Olympic Sailing Grand Slam for the Nacra 17. They were well ahead of silver winners Laura Farese and Matthäus Zochling of Austria after winning two thirds of the fifteen races. Lukas Haberl and Clara Stamminger came in third place for the Bronze.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "John Gimson and Anna Burnet". britishsailingteam.rya.org.uk. British Sailing Team. Archived from the original on 2 August 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
- ^ "John Gimson". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 3 August 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
- ^ "John Gimson". members.sailing.org. World Sailing. Archived from the original on 27 May 2022.
- ^ New, Gerald (21 July 2025). "Long Beach Olympic Sailing Grand Slam – Gold for Gimson and Burnet". Retrieved 11 March 2026.
External links
[edit]- John Gimson at World Sailing (archived, alternate link)
- John Gimson at Olympics.com
- John Gimson at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
- John Gimson on Facebook
- 1983 births
- Living people
- British male sailors (sport)
- Olympic sailors for Great Britain
- Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic medalists in sailing
- Sailors at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Nacra 17
- Sailors at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Nacra 17
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Nacra 17 class sailors
- Nacra 17 class world champions
- World champions in sailing for Great Britain
- Sportspeople from Leicester
- Sportspeople from Congleton
- 21st-century British sportsmen