John Robertson (Paralympic sailor)

John Curtis-Robertson
Personal information
Nationality Great Britain
Born (1972-02-11) 11 February 1972 (age 52)
Sunderland, England
Sailing career
ClassSonar
Medal record
Sailing
Representing  Great Britain
Disabled World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2005 Sønderborg Mixed Sonar
Gold medal – first place 2006 Perth Mixed Sonar
Gold medal – first place 2015 Melbourne Mixed Sonar
Silver medal – second place 2010 Medemblik Mixed Sonar
Silver medal – second place 2011 Weymouth Mixed Sonar
Bronze medal – third place 2003 Athens Mixed Sonar
Bronze medal – third place 2012 Charlotte Harbour Mixed Sonar

John Curtis-Robertson (born 11 February 1972) is a British Paralympic sailor. Curtis-Robertson has represented Great Britain at three Summer Paralympics and with his colleagues Stephen Thomas and Hannah Stodel has won multiple medals in the Mixed Sonar class at the Disabled Sailing World Championships, including skippering his team to back to back gold medals in 2005 and 2006.

Personal life

Robertson was born in Sunderland, England in 1972.[1] After leaving school he joined the Royal Air Force, but in 1994 a motorbike accident left him paralysed from the waist down and he was invalided out of the force.[2]

John married Louise Curtis-Robertson in 2022.[citation needed]

Sailing career

Robertson was first introduced to sailing by his father when he was 11, piloting mirror's off the coast in Sunderland.[2][3] After his accident in 1994, he was introduced to Paralympic trimarans by a spinal injuries charity during an outward bound course in the Lake District.[2] In 1997 he began sailing Sonar's.

By 2003 Robertson was joined by fellow British sailor Hannah Stodel and newcomer to the sport, ice sledge hockey Paralympian Stephen Thomas, to make up a Mixed Sonar crew. In 2003 he travelled with his teammates to Athens to take part in the IFDS World Disabled Sailing Championship, where they secured the bronze medal.[1] The following year the trio qualified for their first Summer Paralympics, the 2004 games at Athens, finishing sixth in the Sonar class.[3]

Robertson, Thomas and Stodel would remain as a team for over 12 years, with major successes coming in the 2005 World Championships in Sønderborg and the 2006 World Championships in Perth where Robertson skippered them to gold in the Sonar class.[1] They represented Britain in their second Paralympics, in the 2008 Games in Beijing. They again finished sixth.[1] Two silver medals in the 2010 and 2011 IFDS World Championships were followed by their third successive Paralympics, this time on home surf when the games came to London. The London Paralympics ended in disappointment for Robertson and his teammates after they were deducted four points after a team bosun cleaned the port side of their keel after being authorized to inspect the craft for damage.[4] The deduction saw the British team drop to fifth and the bronze medal going to Norway, just three points ahead of them.[5]

In the run up to the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, Robertson skippered his crew to a third World Championship, beating the Australian team by a single point.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Team Profile: John Robertson" (PDF). rya.org.uk. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  2. ^ a b c "Meet the team: Paralympic star John Robertson". bournemouthecho.co.uk. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  3. ^ a b "John Robertson". paralympics.org.uk. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  4. ^ Pavitt, Michael (1 August 2014). "London 2012 agony will not 'destroy' Hannah Stodel team". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on 5 August 2014. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  5. ^ "Paralympics: GB Sonar crew miss out on bronze". BBC Sport. 13 June 2013. Archived from the original on 25 October 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  6. ^ "Para World Sailing: GB trio claim Sonar gold". BBC Sport. 3 December 2015. Archived from the original on 6 December 2015. Retrieved 6 December 2015.

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