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18 Facts About Olivia Price

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Olivia Price was born on 2 August 1992 and is an Australian sailor.

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Olivia Price represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in sailing, and won a silver medal.

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Olivia Price attended Drummoyne Public School before going to high school at St Catherines School then Sydney Distance Education High School.

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Olivia Price chose distance education in order to allow herself more time to compete and train, finally earning her HSC in 2011.

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Olivia Price is 164 centimetres tall and weighs 68 kilograms.

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Olivia Price is a sailor, serving as a bowman and skipper.

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Olivia Price has been coached by Euan McNicol since 2010.

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Olivia Price is a member of the Middle Harbour Yacht Club.

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Olivia Price has a sailing scholarship from the Australian Institute of Sport and New South Wales Institute of Sport.

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In 2008, as a sixteen-year-old, Olivia 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.

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Olivia Price was ranked the ISAF Women's World Ranking's number one bowman in 2010.

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Olivia Price competed in the Perth 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships.

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Olivia Price competed in the 2012 ISAF Women's Match Racing World Championship in Gottenburg, Sweden.

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Olivia Price has been selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in sailing as the team's skipper.

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Olivia Price was named to the Elliott 6m team in June 2012.

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Olivia Price was the youngest member of Australia's sailing team.

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Olivia Price went into London knowing that if she earned a medal, she would be the youngest female ever to earn one in the event.

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Olivia Price was not selected for the 49erFX class at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and took a five-year break from sailing.