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Barbara Kendall

Sailor

Barbara Kendall has won many gold medals sailing her wind surfer. She has already won an Olympic Gold Medal in the Mistral class.

At the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games there will be 11 sailing events utilising nine different classes of boats: 49er, 470, Europe, Finn, Laser, Mistral, Soling, Star and Tornado.

Races fall into two categories: fleet racing and match racing. Fleet racing involves all competing boats racing against each other at the one time. Match racing is where two boats compete one-on-one. All events are fleet races with the exception of the Soling event, which starts with a series of six fleet races to determine the top 12 competitors,who than advance to a match racing elimination series.