Barbara Kendall

Barbara Kendall is a former New Zealand boardsailor who competed at five Summer Olympic Games in windsurfing, the first competitor from her country to do so. She won a gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, a silver medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, then went on to finish fifth at the 2004 Athens Games and sixth at the 2008 Beijing Games. Her long international career and pioneering role for New Zealand sailing were recognized with appointment as a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1993 and later as a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2019. Kendall's three consecutive Olympic medals in the 1990s remain among the most celebrated achievements in New Zealand sailing history.