{{Short description|British windsurfer (born 1983)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}} {{Use British English|date=January 2017}} {{Infobox sailor | image = Bryony Shaw - Olympic Parade - Weymouth & Portland.jpg | caption = Bryony Shaw in the 2012 Olympic Parade in Weymouth & Portland | full_name = Bryony Elisabeth Shaw | birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|28 April 1983}} | birth_place = Wandsworth | show-medals = yes | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Sailing}} {{MedalCountry|{{GBR2}}}} {{MedalOlympic}} {{MedalBronze|2008 Beijing|Sailboard}} {{MedalCompetition|World Championships}} {{MedalSilver|2013 Búzios| Women's RS:X}} {{MedalSilver|2015 Muscat| Women's RS:X}} {{MedalSilver|2016 Eilat| Women's RS:X}} {{MedalCompetition|European Championships}} {{MedalGold|2015 Sicily| Women's RS:X}} {{MedalSilver|2006 Alaçatı| Women's RS:X}} {{MedalBronze|2012 Tel Aviv| Women's RS:X}} }}
'''Bryony Elisabeth Shaw''' (born 28 April 1983 in Wandsworth) is a British Olympic windsurfer.
==Early life== She first began windsurfing in the south of France in 1992. She attended Cheney Upper School near Headington in Oxford (where her father had been teaching at Oxford Brookes University), gaining A levels in art, maths, and biology. She had windsurfed on Farmoor Reservoir to the west of Oxford. She went to Cardiff University to study architecture, and she stayed for a year before committing to windsurfing full time in 2005.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.sailing.org/sailor/bryony-shaw?ref=GBRBS1 |title=Bryony Shaw |website=Sailing.org |publisher=World Sailing |access-date=28 March 2022}}</ref>
==Windsurfing== She won the bronze medal in the women's RS:X class at the 2008 Summer Olympics, the first ever women's windsurfing medal for the British Olympic team. She trains at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy.
Shaw won silver at the 2013, 2015, and 2016 RS:X World Championships, and 5th at the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sailing.org/olympics/resultscentre.php?raceid=44 |title=Beijing 2008 Olympics – RS:X – Women – Overall Results |website=Sailing.org |publisher=ISAF |access-date=20 August 2008 |archive-date=7 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107034059/http://www.sailing.org/olympics/resultscentre.php?raceid=44 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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==See also== * Nick Dempsey, another Olympic windsurfer from Weymouth
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{World Sailing|id=GBRBS1|www=bryony-shaw}} * {{Olympics.com profile}} * {{Olympedia}} * {{Team GB}} ([https://web.archive.org/web/20100226065335/http://www.olympics.org.uk/beijing2008/AthleteProfile.aspx?id=6635 archive]) * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080919131453/http://www.rya.org.uk/beijing2008/events/neilprydersxw/Pages/BryonyShaw.aspx RYA profile] * {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307024839/http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2008/jul/27/olympicgames20085 |date=7 March 2016 |title=''Guardian'' July 2008}} * [http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/search/display.var.1710273.0.weymouth_double_as_gb_make_clean_sweep.php Gold at Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta in September 2007]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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