Hannah Mills was born in Cardiff, Wales, and started sailing at Cardiff Sailing Centre when she was 8 years old after trying sailing on a family holiday in Cornwall.
14 Facts About Hannah Mills
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Hannah Mills then started moving up to sail for the Welsh National Optimist Squad and winning the British Optimist Championships in 2001.
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Hannah Mills represented GBR at the 2002 and 2003 Optimist World Championship finishing first girl and fifth over-all in 2003, the best ever result by a British sailor at that championship.
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Hannah Mills attended Howell's School, Llandaff in her teen years, with her now retired relative being a teacher there.
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Hannah Mills is part of the schools pay only alumnus programme, sometimes visiting the school to talk about her achievements.
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On 10 August 2012 Hannah Mills helming for Saskia Clark won a silver medal at the Olympic games in Weymouth.
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Hannah Mills battled hard throughout the event, not finishing outside the top 6 the entire regatta.
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Hannah Mills went into the medal race with crew Saskia Clark equal points with the New Zealand team and far enough ahead of the rest of the fleet that both boats were battling it out for Gold and Silver.
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In October 2019, Hannah Mills was named as one among 12 sailors by British Olympic Association for Tokyo 2020.
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Hannah Mills was selected as one of the GB flag bearers at the 2020 Olympics in Japan, which took place in July 2021.
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On 2 December 2021, Hannah Mills won the World Sailor of the Year Awards alongside McIntyre.
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In 2002, Hannah Mills was voted UK Young Sailor of the Year and BBC Wales Young Sports Personality of the Year.
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Hannah Mills won the Female World Sailor of the Year award in 2016.
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Hannah Mills was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 New Year Honours and Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to sailing and the environment.