Mike Leigh (sailor)

Mike Leigh
Personal information
Full name Michael Leigh
Nickname(s) Clubber
Nationality  Canada
Born (1984-11-25) 25 November 1984
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in)
Weight 80 kg (176 lb)
Sailing career
Class(es) Dinghy
Club Royal Vancouver Yacht Club[1]
Coach Joshua Chant[1]

Michael Leigh (born November 25, 1984 in Nanaimo, British Columbia) is a Canadian sailor, who specialized in one-person (Laser) and two-person dinghy (470) classes.[1][2] Representing Canada in two editions of the Olympic Games, he finished ninth in the Laser class at Beijing 2008, and then twenty-fifth in the 470 class at London 2012 with his partner Luke Ramsay. Leigh has also been training throughout his sailing career for the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club under his Australian-born personal coach Joshua Chant.[1][3]

Leigh made his Olympic debut at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he sailed into the ninth position in the men's Laser class with a grade of 109, missing out of the medal podium by 34 net points and surpassing Norway's Kristian Ruth by a narrow, ten-point gap based on the total score.[4]

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Leigh teamed up with skipper Luke Ramsay to challenge the men's 470 class after having achieved a berth and finishing twenty-second from the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain.[5][6] Sailing with Ramsay in the opening series, the Canadian duo posted a grade of 179 net points to earn a twenty-fifth place finish in a fleet of twenty-seven boats.[7][8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Mike Leigh". London 2012. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
  2. ↑ "Mike Leigh". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  3. ↑ "A Life on the Water: Meet Mike Leigh, Olympic Laser Sailor". Canadian Olympic Committee. 1 July 2008. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  4. ↑ "Men's Laser Class". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  5. ↑ Bone, Oliver (30 January 2012). "Bone: Canadian sailors earn Olympic berths in Miami". The Sports Network. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  6. ↑ Christie, James (8 December 2011). "Ramsay, Leigh best of Canadian bunch at world sailing championships". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  7. ↑ "Men's 470". London 2012. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
  8. ↑ "From RS:X And 470 To The Nacra 17". ISAF. 30 January 2013. Retrieved 2 July 2015.

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