YOUNG Alison

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
5	Laser Radial	2012	London, GBR
8	Laser Radial	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA

World Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
7	Laser Radial	2018	Aarhus, DEN
7	Laser Radial	2011	Fremantle, WA, AUS
9	Laser Radial	2014	Santander, ESP
29	Laser Radial	2007	Cascais, POR

Class World Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Laser Radial	2016	Nuevo Vallarta, MEX
3	Laser Radial	2019	Sakaiminato, JPN
17	Laser Radial	2020	Melbourne, VIC, AUS
33	Laser Radial	2017	Medemblik, NED

Class European Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
4	Laser Radial	2019	Porto, POR
7	Laser Radial	2018	La Rochelle, FRA
8	Laser Radial	2017	Barcelona, ESP
54	Laser Radial	2020	Gdansk, POL

World Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Laser Radial	2018	Miami, FL, USA
3	Laser Radial	2020	Enoshima, JPN
4	Laser Radial	2017	Hyeres, FRA
5	Laser Radial	2019	Miami, FL, USA
8	Laser Radial	2019	Enoshima, JPN
8	Laser Radial	2018	Gamagori, JPN
11	Laser Radial	2021	Medemblik, NED
12	Laser Radial	2018	Marseille, FRA
31	Laser Radial	2018	Hyeres, FRA

Ali, Bongo (rya.org.uk, 15 May 2012)

Cycling, slacklining. (laserinternational.org, 19 Mar 2019)

Athlete

Civil Engineering - Southampton University, Great Britain

English

She broke her ankle eight weeks before the start of the 2016 Olympic Games. Despite the injury she went on to finish eighth in Laser Radial in Rio de Janeiro. (worcesternews.co.uk, 16 Aug 2016)

Illness forced her to withdraw from the 2013 World Championships in Rizhao, People's Republic of China. She went on to miss 10 months of competition from 2013 into 2014 due to the illness. (britishsailingteam.rya.org.uk, 01 Jan 2019; sportsister.com, 07 Oct 2013)

She began sailing at age nine in a GP14 dinghy with her father. The pair first tried the sport the Trimpley Sailing Club near Bewdley, England. (Facebook page, 01 Aug 2012; rya.org.uk, 15 May 2012; trimpleysailingclub.co.uk, 11 May 2012)

Her father received sailing lessons for his birthday and decided to take Alison along with him. "I got into sailing because it was something my dad had always wanted to try." (rya.org.uk, 11 Jul 2016; Facebook page, 01 Aug 2012)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (worcesternews.co.uk, 16 Aug 2016)

Sports coach and former Royal Marine Bernie Shrosbree. (thresholdsports.co.uk, 15 May 2012)

Her parents, and all the coaches who helped her learn to sail. (rya.org.uk, 15 May 2012)

She likes to make sure all her kit and drinks are ready the night before racing. (rya.org.uk, 15 May 2012)

"Train hard, train smart." (expressandstar.com, 16 Jul 2012)

In 2018 she was inducted into the UK Laser Hall of Fame. (trimpleysailingclub.co.uk, 02 Apr 2018)