Jonathan Harris (sailor)

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Jonathan Harris
File:150611 - Jonathan Harris - 3b - 2012 Team processing.jpg
2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Harris
Personal information
Nationality Australia
Born (1955-10-31) 31 October 1955 (age 68)
Sport
Country Australia
Sport Sailing
Club Cronulla Sailing Club
Medal record
Sailing
IFDS World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Kinsale Mixed Three Person Sonar
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Halifax Mixed Three Person Sonar
Silver medal – second place 2015 Melbourne Mixed Three Person Sonar
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Medemblik Mixed Three Person Sonar

Jonathan Harris (born 31 October 1955) is an Australian blue-water sailor who began his sailing career when he was about ten. He was selected to represent Australia in Sailing in his first Paralympic Games at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. He did not medal at the 2012 Games.

Personal

Harris was born on 31 October 1955. He lost his hand as a result of a chemical explosion when he was sixteen. As of 2012, he lives in Oatley, New South Wales, and owns an IT company. He also skis and cycles.[1]

Sailing

Harris is a sailor and has been a member of the Cronulla Sailing Club since he was very young.[1] He is coached by the Perth-based Grant Alderson.[1] As of 2012, he had a sailing scholarship with the New South Wales Institute of Sport.[2]

Harris started sailing when he was about ten years old.[1][3] He has twice (1983, 1985) competed in the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, a distance of just over 1,170 km.[1]

File:020912 - Jonathan Harris, Stephen Churm & Colin Harrison - 3b - 2012 Summer Paralympics.jpg
Jonathan Harris, Stephen Churm & Colin Harrison sailing at the 2012 London Paralympics

Harris first represented Australia in 2002 at the World Championships in the Netherlands,[1] in the Sonar class.[4] He competed with Colin Harrison and Stephen Churm for the first time at the 2012 International Association for Disabled Sailing (IFDS) World Championships in the Sonar event, where the team finished fourth.[1][5][6] On the last day of competition, he and his crew dealt with a wind speed of 10-15 knots.[7] At the 2012 Dutch-hosted World Cup, he and his teammates finished third over all in the Sonar Paralympic class.[8] They had been at fourth following the first day of competition.[9] His team at the 2012 Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta in Weymouth, England, finished fifth overall following the fourth day of competition.[10] He was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in sailing.[1] It was his first Paralympic selection.[11] He did not medal at the 2012 Games.[citation needed]

At the 2013 IFDS World Championships in Kinsale, Ireland, he teamed with Russell Boaden and Colin Harrison to win the bronze medal in the Sonar Class.[12] In October 2013, the trio were named Yachting Australia's Sailors of the Year with a Disability.[13] At the 2014 IFDS World Championships in Halifax, Canada, Harris teamed with Harrison and Boaden to win the bronze medal in the Sonar Class.[14] In November 2014, Harris shared the Yachting Australia Sailor of the Year with a Disability award with Daniel Fitzgibbon, Liesl Tesch, Colin Harrison, Russell Boaden and Matthew Bugg. The Australian team of six sailors beat Great Britain by one point at the IFDS World Championship.[15]

At the 2015 IFDS Championships in Australia, he teamed with Boaden and Harrison to win the silver medal behind the Great Britain crew. Their score was 37.0 to Great Britain's 36.0.[16]

Harris, Boaden and Harrison won the bronze medal in the Mixed Three Person Sonar class at the 2016 World Championships held in Medemblik, Netherlands.[17]

References

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External links

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