Iain Percy

Iain Percy is an English sailor, born in 1976, who won Olympic gold for Great Britain in the single-handed Finn class at Sydney in 2000 and in the two-person Star keelboat class at Beijing in 2008, then took Star silver at London in 2012, the last two with Andrew Simpson. He also won the Star world championship in 2002 with Steve Mitchell and again in 2010 with Simpson. In 2005 he paused Olympic sailing to helm the challenger +39 Challenge in the America's Cup, later joined Artemis Racing, served as its sailing team director for the 35th America's Cup, and has been chief executive of Artemis Technologies since 2017. He was appointed MBE in 2005 and OBE in 2009 and sails at Hayling Island Sailing Club.