Hannah Mills

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For Hannah Mills the 18th Century Quaker, see Hannah Mills (Quaker).
Hannah Mills
Personal information
Nationality Welsh
Born (1988-02-29) 29 February 1988 (age 36)
Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales
Sailing career
Class(es) Optimist, 420, 470
Medal record
Representing  Great Britain
Sailing
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2012 London Women's 470
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2006 Las Palmas Women's 420
Gold medal – first place 2012 Barcelona Women's 470
Silver medal – second place 2011 Perth Women's 470
Silver medal – second place 2015 Haifa Women's 470
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Santander Women's 470
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2014 Athens Women's 470
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2008 Gdynia Women's 470
European Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2007 Netherlands Women's 470
Silver medal – second place 2008 Croatia Women's 470

Hannah Mills (born 29 February 1988) is a British, Welsh competitive sailor. Mills won a Silver medal for Team GB with her crew Saskia Clark in the 2012 Olympics[1] and will also be competing at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Early life

Mills was born in Cardiff, Wales, and started sailing at Cardiff Sailing Centre when she was 8 years old[1][2][3] before moving up to sail for the Welsh National Optimist Squad and winning the British Optimist Championships in 2001.[2]

In 2002, Hannah was voted UK Young Sailor of the Year and BBC Wales Young Sports Personality of the Year.[4]

Career

At the 2011 Skandia Sail for Gold regatta and the 2011 Weymouth & Portland International Regatta, Hannah won a Silver medal in the 470 Women class.[5]

After suffering a black flag in the very first race of the championships, Hannah and her crew Saskia claimed Gold at the 2012 470 World Championships in Barcelona.[6]

On 10 August 2012 Hannah Mills helming for Saskia Clark won a Silver Medal at the Olympic games in Weymouth. Mills battled hard throughout the event, not finishing outside the top 6 the entire regatta. She went into the medal race with crew Saskia Clark equal points with the New Zealand team and far enough ahead of the rest of the fleet that both boats were battling it out for Gold and Silver. After a great start, however, there was a dramatic wind shift and they came 9th in the medal race, which gave them the Silver medal[citation needed].

On 10 December 2014, Mills and Clark were robbed at knifepoint in Rio de Janeiro while in training for the 2016 Olympics.[7]

References

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  7. ↑ BBC Sport - "Hannah Mills & Saskia Clark robbed at knifepoint in Rio", 11 December. Accessed 11 Dec 2014

External links

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