Andrew Palfrey
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nickname | Dog |
| Born | 26 January 1967 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) |
| Weight | 96 kg (212 lb) |
| Sailing career | |
| Class | Keelboat |
| Club |
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Andrew Palfrey (born 26 January 1967) is a professional Australian sailor and Olympian competing in the 2008 games men's keelboat class the (Star).[2]
Olympic sailing
[edit]Together with his partner and America's World Cup competitor Iain Murray, he was named one of the country's top sailors in the all-male keelboat for the 2008 Summer Olympics, finishing in a distant fourteenth position. A full-time of the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club in Sydney, Palfrey trained for the Games under the tutelage of his Irish-born coach Euan McNichol.[3]
Palfrey competed for the Australian sailing squad, as a 41-year-old crew member in the Star class, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[4][5] Leading up to their maiden Games, he and 50-year-old skipper Murray secured the Australians a definite top-nine finish in their respective boat at the 2007 ISAF Worlds in Cascais, Portugal.[6] The Australian duo stormed from behind at the very start to a fantastic runner-up finish in the midway of the series, before a streak of substandard outcomes in heavy winds, however, sent both Palfrey and Murray to the back of the 16-boat fleet. They sailed powerfully to eighth on the final leg, but their overall score was not enough to let the Aussies enter into the medal race, sitting them in a lowly fourteenth position with 96 net points.[7]
He has twice won the 5.5 Metre World Championship in 2010 and 2022 and in the same class won the 2022 Scandinavian Gold Cup represented Great Britain.
References
[edit]- ^ "Andrew PALFREY Profile & Bio, Photos & Videos". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 20 July 2012.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Andrew Palfrey". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
- ^ Coomber, John (22 May 2008). "Mid-life crisis? Iain Murray hitches himself to a Star". www.theroar.com.au. The Roar. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
- ^ "Australian Olympic Sailing Team Announced". World Sailing. 18 October 2007. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
- ^ "Aussie sailors set to dominate". World Sailing. 25 July 2008. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
- ^ "Slingsby wins world Laser championship in Portugal". The Australian. 11 July 2007. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
- ^ "Beijing 2008: Men's Star Class". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 14 July 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Andrew Palfrey at World Sailing
- Andrew Palfrey at Olympics.com
- Andrew Palfrey at Olympedia
- Andrew Palfrey at the Australian Olympic Committee
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- 1967 births
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- Australian male sailors (sport)
- Sailors (sport) from Melbourne
- Olympic sailors for Australia
- Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Star
- 5.5 Metre class world champions
- Etchells class world champions
- World champions in sailing for Australia
- Sportsmen from Victoria (state)
- 20th-century Australian sportsmen
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