Olivia Price
Nina Curtis and Olivia Price (on the right) at the Welcome Home parade in Sydney
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| Nationality | Australia |
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2 August 1992 Sydney |
| Height | 164 cm (65 in) (2012) |
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) (2012) |
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| Country | Australia |
| Sport | Sailing |
| Event(s) | Elliott 6m — Women |
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Olivia Price (born 2 August 1992) is an Australian sailor. She represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in sailing, and won a silver medal.
Price was born on 2 August 1992 in Sydney and is from Drummoyne. She attended Drummoyne Public School before going to high school at St Catherines School then Sydney Distance Education High School. She chose distance education in order to allow herself more time to compete and train, finally earning her HSC in 2011. As of 2012[update], she lives in Sydney, and is part of The University of Sydney's Elite Athlete Program.
Price is 164 centimetres (65 in) tall and weighs 68 kilograms (150 lb).
Price is a sailor, serving as a bowman and skipper. She has been coached by Euan McNicol since 2010. Her primary training base is Sydney, with a secondary training base in Weymouth. She is a member of the Middle Harbour Yacht Club. She has a sailing scholarship from the Australian Institute of Sport and New South Wales Institute of Sport.
In 2008, as a sixteen-year-old, Price started competing in the ISAF World Cup Women's Match Racing Tour where she was the youngest woman in the competition, a title she held into 2012. She was ranked the ISAF Women's World Ranking's number one bowman in 2010. In 2010, as a crew member, she came in first at the 2010 Australian National Open Match Racing Champion and, as skipper, came in first at the 2010 Australian Women's Match Racing Champion. At 2010 ISAF Sail for Gold World Cup in Weymouth, she earned a gold medal. At the ISAF 2010 Women's Match Racing World Championships in Newport, Rhode Island, her team finished third. In the Women's Match Racing Team category for the ISAF World Ranking List, her team was ranked first in 2010.
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