Tom Slingsby is an Australian competitive sailor, born in 1984, who won the Men's Laser gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics. His first successes came in the Laser dinghy, where he won world championships in 2007, 2010 and 2012 among others, and he was named ISAF World Sailor of the Year in 2010 and again in 2021. He was strategist for Oracle Team USA in the 2013 America's Cup, skippered the supermaxi Perpetual Loyal to line honours in the 2016 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, and captained the Australian team that won the inaugural SailGP season in 2019. He received the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2014 and entered the Australian Sailing Hall of Fame in 2023.
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named the male ISAF World Sailor of the Year
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