Rodney Pattisson is a double Olympic gold medalist in sailing won at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics and 1972 Munich Olympics both in the Flying Dutchman class.
11 Facts About Rodney Pattisson
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Rodney Pattisson won a silver medal at the 1976 Montreal Olympics in the same class to become Great Britain's most successful Olympic yachtsman until Ben Ainslie overtook him with 3 gold medals and a silver medal at four different Olympic Games at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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Rodney Pattisson's family left Scotland just two months after Rodney's birth, and he has never lived in Scotland since then.
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Rodney Pattisson went to school at Pangbourne College, which was founded in 1917 as the Nautical College Pangbourne.
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Rodney Pattisson later teamed up with the London solicitor Iain MacDonald-Smith and won the 1968 Olympic trials.
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At the time it was noted that in winning the gold, Rodney Pattisson became the first "Scot" to win an Olympic medal in sailing.
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Rodney Pattisson won another World Championship in 1971, but this time it was with Julian Brooke-Houghton.
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Rodney Pattisson was honoured by being the flag-bearer at the opening ceremony of the 1976 Montreal Olympics.
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Rodney Pattisson then retired from the Olympics and later co-skippered the Victory 83, the Peter de Savary entry in the America's Cup in 1983.
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Rodney Pattisson was later elected to the Sailing Hall of Fame and Scottish Sports Hall of Fame.
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Rodney Pattisson later asked to be withdrawn from the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in 2012 as he does not consider himself Scottish.