#winner.

Happy 52nd Birthday to golden girl Shirley Robertson born on July 15th 1968 in Dundee.

Shirley is a Scottish sailor and Olympic gold medallist, she had won silver medals at the 1998, 1999 and 2000 Europe Class World Championships and competed in the 1992 Barcelona Games and 1996 Atlanta Games. The big breakthrough came at the Millennium Olympic Games in Sydney when she won Gold the same year Shirley was voted ISAF World Female Sailor of the Year.

In 2004 Shirley’s achieved her historical second Gold Medal at the Olympics in Athens, the first and only woman from our shores to win back to back Golds. Since winning her second gold medal Shirley has established a solid career in media. After a regular presenting spot on BBC South TV, she hosted BBC Scotland’s Sports Saturday programme standing in for John Beattie and presented BBC Grandstand.

Although Shirley didn’t compete at the Beijing Olympics she covered the event as part of the BBC Olympic sailing commentary team. She continues to present CNN’s monthly sailing TV programme ‘Mainsail’.

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