Barbara Kendall

CNZM MBE

Kendall in 2019
Personal information
Born	Barbara Anne Kendall 30 August 1967 (1967-08-30) (age 58) Papakura, New Zealand
Relative	Bruce Kendall (brother)
Medal record Women'ssailing Representing New Zealand Olympic Games 1992 Barcelona Sailboard (Lechner) 1996 Atlanta Sailboard 2000 Sydney Sailboard

Barbara Anne KendallCNZM MBE (born 30 August 1967) is a formerboardsailor from New Zealand. She competed at fiveSummer Olympic Games and won gold, silver and bronze medals.

Kendall was born inPapakura on 30 August 1967, the daughter of Tony and Peggy Kendall.^[1] She was raised in the Auckland suburb ofBucklands Beach and attendedMacleans College. She won a gold medal at the1992 Summer Olympics inBarcelona, silver medal in1996 (inAtlanta, Georgia), and a bronze medal in2000 (inSydney).^[2] Kendall finished 5th at the2004 Games inAthens and sixth at the2008 Games inBeijing.^[3] She was the first, and as of 2008. (She has since been joined by Valerie Adams, Tokyo 2021. Luuka Jones has stated her intention to compete in her fifth Olympics in Paris 2024 to join them.)

During 1998, she had foundedGulf Harbour School on thecoast of Auckland. In 2008, she returned and created a mural for the school.^[4]

Kendall was the Oceania athletes' representative on theInternational Olympic Committee from 2005 to 2008, having replacedSusie O'Neill who resigned in 2005 (Kendall was the athlete from the same continent who had received the next highest number of votes for the commission), and was on the New Zealand Olympic Committee Athletes Commission^[5] until 2008.^[6] In July 2011, she was elected as a member of theInternational Olympic Committee and theIOC Athletes' Commission and sat on the Women and Sport Commission and Sport and the Environment Commission until August 2016.

Kendall's brotherBruce is also an Olympic Gold medallist. They are the first brother and sister to have achieved this feat for New Zealand.^[7]

Kendall officially retired from competitive board sailing in May 2010.^[8]

In 1990, Kendall was awarded theNew Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.^[1] In the1993 New Year Honours, she was appointed aMember of the Order of the British Empire, for services to boardsailing.^[9] In the2019 New Year Honours, she was made aCompanion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to sport.^[10]

• Women multiple medallist at theWindsurfing World Championships

• Butcher, Margot (2010).Golden Girls: Celebrating New Zealand's six female Olympic gold medallists. Auckland: HarperSports/HarperCollins. pp. 38–59.ISBN 978-1-86950-892-0.

• Barbara Kendall atWorld Sailing (archived,alternate link)
• Barbara Kendall atOlympics.com
• Barbara Kendall atOlympedia
• Barbara Kendall at theNew Zealand Olympic Committee
• Barbara Kendall at theNew Zealand Sports Hall of Fame

• 1967 births
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