Hannah Mills

Hannah Mills is a British competitive sailor from Cardiff, Wales, born on 29 February 1988, who is a two-time world champion in the 470 class, winning in 2012 and 2019. Sailing the women's 470 at the Olympics she won silver in 2012 with Saskia Clark, gold in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro with Clark and gold in 2020 in Tokyo with Eilidh McIntyre, and she was one of the British flag bearers at the Tokyo Games. She won the Female World Sailor of the Year award in 2016, has been on-board strategist for the Emirates Great Britain SailGP Team since 2021, and in 2022 launched the Athena Pathway programme with Ben Ainslie to fast-track female and youth sailors. She was appointed OBE in 2022 for services to sailing and the environment.