Bryony Shaw

Bryony Elisabeth Shaw (born 28 April 1983 in Wandsworth) is a British Olympic windsurfer.

She attended Cheney Upper School near Headington in Oxford (where her father had been teaching at Oxford Brookes University), gaining A levels in art, maths, and biology.

She went to Cardiff University to study architecture, and she stayed for a year before committing to windsurfing full time in 2005.

[1] She won the bronze medal in the women's RS:X class at the 2008 Summer Olympics, the first ever women's windsurfing medal for the British Olympic team.

She trains at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy.