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Krystal Australian Female Sailor of the Year

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Name:	Krystal Weir
Date of Birth:	15/01/85
Yacht Club:	Sandringham Yacht Club
Hobbies/ Interests :	Basically all sports; mainly cycling, hockey and sailing, Travel
Occupation:	Student; Australian Catholic University Year 4 Goal; study Advanced Biomechanics and Rehabilitation
Date of Birth	15th January 1985
Coach:	Lex Bertrand, Erik Stibbe, Tytus Konarzewski
Club:	Sandrinham Yacht Club
Memberships:	Australian Institue of Sport Australian High Performance Team Hurricane Force Australia Sandringham Yacht Club Boating Academy Ambassador Victorian Institute of Sport Victorian Sailing Team Victorian Laser Association Zhik Sailing Team Harken Sailing Team
Career Highlights:	Victorian Female Sabot State title-1997-1998 National and State Womens Champion Sabre class, 2000 & 2001 Australian Laser Radial Youth Female Champion, 2001 & 2002 Australian Womens National Championship 1st - January 2003 and 2004 Laser Radial World Youth Championship, 2nd - 2001 & 2003 Warnemunder Week, Germany , 1st - July 2003 World Youth Championship, Madeira , Portugal 2nd - July 2003 World Womens Championships, Lake Garda , Italy , 2nd - August 2003 World Womens Championship, Brisbane, Australia, 1st- April 2004 Go For Gold-1st -November 2003 & 2004 Laser Radial State tiltles- 1 st - 2004 NSW Coastal Regatta- 1 st - 2004 Sail Brisbane- 1st 2004 Sydney International Regatta, Woollahra-1st-2004 Australian Laser Radial Nationals, Belmont NSW- 1st- 2004 & 2005 Sail Melbourne, Sandringham- 1st- 2005 Asian Pacific- Wellington, New Zealand- 1st- 2005 Coastals Regatt- NSW-1st-2005 Sydney International Regatta-1st-2005 Laser Radial World Championsihps-5th-2005
Sailing History	Krystal began sailing at Elwood Sailing Club in the Junior program at age seven. She progressed through her sailing and became part of the Victorian National Sabot Team and in 1999 became the first Victorian female captain for the national team. Krystal sailed many class's including the Flying 11, Sabre and Laser Radial. Competing in her first worlds at 16 years of Age at the Laser Radial Womens Worlds in Vilanova , Spain. In 2002 she was selected to represent Australia at the ISAF Youth Worlds in Canada sailing a Byte. In 2003 she was once again selected for the National Youth Team competing in Portugal finishing second place one point behind an American. During the same year she competed in Warnemunder week Germany finishing first female and at Lake Garda she finished second at the Laser Radial Womens Open Worlds. Krystal has been female Laser Radial National Champion for the past two years and is currently Victorian Open Laser Radial Champion. In April this year Krystal lived her dream of winning a World Championship, on home soil (Brisbane) she won the regatta by a staggering 20 points from fellow Australian Kristine Bridges (past Olympian 1992,1996). She is now preparing her campaign to represent Australia in the 2008 Beijing Olympics .
MAJOR RANKING	Currently Ranked number one in Australia Female Laser Radial
	Currently ranked number one in Laser Radial for Victoria

AWARDS	Bayside Youth Sailor of the Year-2001 Victorian Institute of Sport Scholarship Holder-2003 & 2004 Victorian Junior Athlete of the Year- VIC SPORT 2004 Current Victorian Youth Sailor of the Year Current Australian Female Sailor of the Year Bayside Leader Sports Star of the Year
Career Ambitions	Degree in Exercise Science and Rehabilitation Working in the sporting field of Rehabilitation Role model for young female sailors

	"No Limits in Life"