Bryony Shaw

She first began windsurfing in the south of France in 1992. She attended Cheney Upper School on Cheney Lane near Headington in Oxford gaining A levels in Art, Maths and Biology, where her father had been teaching Business Studies for PhD at Oxford Brookes University. She had windsurfed on Farmoor Reservoir to the west of Oxford. She went to Cardiff University to study Architecture where she stayed for a year before committing to windsurfing full-time in 2005.[1]

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 & 2016 RS:X World Championships, and 5th at the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships.[2]

2008 Summer Olympic regatta

	Points
Race	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Medal race	Net	Position
	4	3	11	6	OCS	6	5	3	1	2	2	45

• Nick Dempsey, another Olympic windsurfer from Weymouth

• Team GB profile
• RYA profile
• Guardian July 2008
• Gold at Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta in September 2007