Jane Wiswell Pegel is an American sailor, on water and on ice, who was elected into the United States' National Sailing Hall of Fame in 2021.
[4] While Pegel sometimes skis, during a 1965 interview published in Sports Illustrated,[5] she noted ...one day of iceboating and you're ready to burn your skisIn the summer, Pegel races in the M-16 Scow class at the Lake Geneva Yacht Club[5][6] where she has also been involved in the junior program as an instructor and as President of the board of directors.
[7] In 1957 and again in 1964, Pegel won the Mrs. Charles Francis Adams Trophy, the United States' Women's Sailing Championship.
[8] She won the United States' Women's Singlehanded championship, the Allegra Knapp Mertz trophy, in 1974[9] and was named US Sailor of the Year three times (1964, 1971, 1972).
[11] Pegel was elected into the United States' National Sailing Hall of Fame in 2021.