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NATIONALITY: Australian
RESIDENCE: Perth, Western Australia
DATE OF BIRTH(YEAR): January 1965 39years
old
TEAM: Pizza-La Sailing
Team
CREW LIST: Yasuhiro Yaji , Kazuhiko Soufuku
, Michael Mottl |
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| Peter won the 2003-'04 Swedish
Match Tour championship with 150 points, a Tour
record. His Pizza-La Sailing
Team (Rod Dawson, Mike Mottl, Kazuhiko Sofuku and
Yasuhiro Yaji) finished with four 1sts and two
2nds in their final scoreline, also a Tour record. |
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| PERSONAL Background,
September 2004: |
| FAMILY |
Wife Christine
Gilmour and three sons David 13 yrs, Samuel
11yrs
and Lachlan 7 years |
PRESENT
OCCUPATION |
Professional
Sailor, Company Director |
| BUSINESS |
Kookaburra
Group (1988-2000) |
| INTERESTS |
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Kookaburra Challenge
Pty Ltd - 12 Metre Corporate Racing |
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Kookaburra Event Marketing
and Management Pty Ltd - Sydney Olympic
Sponsorships
and Special Events |
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Kookaburra
Marketing Services - Telstra Phonecard
Marketing - Sportsworld International
Travel - Corporate sports travel Sydney Yachts - Manufacture and Marketing
of
Sydney Yachts and Carbontech
spars |
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| CURRENT |
Irongate
- Grain fed Beef Producer Swings & Roundabouts
- Margaret
River Wine Producer
Various property interests and both listed/private equity opportunities |
| OTHER |
| INTERESTS |
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Gadgets
and Technology, Skiing, Tennis,
Team
sports, Investment. |
| SPECIAL
INTERESTS |
Observing
my childrens' development |
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| SUMMARY OF BEST SAILING
RESULTS, AWARDS AND ACTIVITIES: |
Positions
Skipper - PST Pizza-La Sailing Team -Winner - 03/04
Swedish Match Tour
Recently Skipper - OneWorld Challenge - 3rd Place
Louis Vuitton Cup
Previously
Skipper - Nippon Challenge
for America's Cup 2000
Coach - Nippon Challenge for America's Cup 1995
Skipper - Spirit of Australia 1992
Starting Helm/Mainsheet - Kookaburra 1987
Titles
3xMatch Race World Champion
Number 1 Ranked Match Race Sailor for three years
4xSailing in America's Cup Selection Series
E22 World Champion
12m World Champion
2 Ton Cup World Champion
Participated in over 100 Grade 1 Match Race Events
- Pizza La Sailing Team
- 4 x winner Australia Cup
- 5 x winner Swedish Match Cup
- 2 x winner Bermuda Gold Cup
- 8 x winner Nippon Cup
Activities
Sydney Olympics Bid Committee (SOCOG)
Developed the Match Race Rankings later to be the ISAF World Match Rankings
Director of Sailing on motion picture "Wind"
Awards
1988 Australian Yachtsman of the Year
1988 West Australian Caltex Sportsman of the Year
1998 JSAF Japanese Sailor of the Year
1998 Yomiuri Shimbun All Japan Sports Team Award
2000 Australian Sports Medal for performance in sport
2000 Top 100 West Australian Athletes for the Century |
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| Additional Information: |
Australian Peter Gilmour is one of the most respected
and feared competitors on the Swedish Match Tour.
After all, he is a three-time World Champion of
Match Race Sailing. But he's also one of the most
knowledgeable skippers on the Tour.
That knowledge comes not only from years on the
match-race circuit, but also five different syndicates
for the America's Cup. Gilmour's Cup career began
with the 1987 defense in Perth, Western Australia,
when he was the starting helmsman for Kevin Parry's
Kookaburra syndicate, which ultimately lost the
America's Cup.
Gilmour, however, had made his mark. During the
Australian trials to select the Cup defender, Gilmour
used the racing rules to his advantage and drew
countless protests on his rivals. The members of
the International Jury often found themselves sorting
out protests well past when everyone had left the
media center. Sometimes their decisions overturned
previous day's results, which created chaos with
the defense trials.
Gilmour's actions would ultimately lead to the
creation of the Match Racing Rules, an appendix
to the Racing Rules of Sailing. The goal of the
new rules was to decide on-the-water infractions
immediately through umpires in chase boats or on
the competing boats.
Gilmour has since been through four other Cup teams
since the Kookaburra days, most recently with Craig
O. McCaw's and Paul Allen's OneWorld Challenge
of Seattle, Wash. McCaw and Allen are regular fixtures
on the Forbes 500 list of wealthiest individuals
in the U.S. and the world.
Gilmour placed fourth and sixth in the first two
years of the Swedish Match Tour, then took off
much of 2002 and 2003 while preparing for and then
recuperating from the OneWorld Challenge.
Now, he's back on the Tour with a vengeance. Gilmour
has placed 3-1-1 in the first three events of the
current tour, the Danish Open, Bermuda Gold Cup
and Nippon Cup. His win in Bermuda was his third
at the Gold Cup, and the Nippon Cup championship
was his fifth consecutive at that event.
Gilmour started sailing at the age of seven on
Perth's Swan River, and he competed in his first
world championship at the age of 16, finishing
21st. Gilmour's performance continued to improve
as his experience with the different disciplines
of sailing increased.
Gilmour has sailed in everything from dinghies
to offshore yachts, having competed in both the
Sydney-Hobart and Fastnet races, but has settled
on match-racing as his chosen field.
Gilmour is married with three children. |
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