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Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||
Born | Melbourne, Victoria | 15 January 1985||||||||||||||
Height | 168 cm (5 ft 6 in) (2012) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) (2012) | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | |||||||||||||||
Country | Australia | ||||||||||||||
Sport | Sailing | ||||||||||||||
Event | Laser Radial | ||||||||||||||
Sailing career | |||||||||||||||
Club | Sandringham Yacht Club | ||||||||||||||
Coach | Laura Baldwin and Lex Bertrand | ||||||||||||||
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Regional finals | Catholic | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Krystal Weir (born 15 January 1985) is an Australian sailor. She finished tenth at the 2008 Summer Olympics. [1] She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in sailing in the Women's Laser Radial class event, where she finished in twelfth. [1]
Weir was born on 15 January 1985 in Melbourne, Victoria [2] [3] and spent her childhood in Victoria. [3] [4] As of 2012 [update], she lives in Melbourne, Victoria. [2] [3]
Weir is 168 centimetres (5 ft 6 in) tall and weighs 65 kilograms (143 lb). [2]
Weir is a sailor [2] and has been described by as "Australia's glamour girl in the world of sailing". [5] She started sailing as an eleven-year-old at the Elwood Sailing Club. [3] She was coached by Lex Bertrand [5] [6] and is now coached by Laura Baldwin who became her coach in 2011. [6] She has a sailing scholarship with the Victorian Institute of Sport, [5] [6] [7] and is a member of the Sandringham Yacht Club. [6] Part of her past training included being thrown overboard by her then coach into Port Phillip Bay. [5] [6] It also included trying to collect tennis balls, ping pong balls and straws that were thrown into the water by her coach while not tipping her boat over. [5] [6] She arrived in London a month before the start of the Games in order to better prepare. [3] [6] [7]
Weir won a World Championship [8] in 2004 in the Laser Radial class. [6] She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the three-crew Yngling team, where she finished tenth alongside teammates Karyn Gojnich and Angela Farrell. [5] [6] [7] She originally was not named to the team, only making the event after another sailor injured herself in a mountain biking accident. [6]
At the 2011 ISAF Sailing World Cup in Melbourne, Weir finished third. [9] In 2012, she spent three months competing in Europe. [7] At the 2012 ISAF Sailing World Cup in the Netherlands, she came in first in round five in the Laser Radial class. [9] At a 2012 ISAF Sailing World Cup event, she came in second. [9] At the 2012 Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta, she finished eighth in the Women's Laser Radial class. [4]
Weir was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in sailing in the Women's Laser Radial class event. [2] [3] [5] [7] [10]