Ben Ainslie


Sir Charles Benedict Ainslie, CBE , best known as Ben Ainslie, is a British, English competitive sailor. The most successful sailor in Olympic history, Ainslie has won medals at five consecutive Olympics from 19962012, including gold at the last four.

Ainslie was born in Macclesfield, England to Roderick and Sue Ainslie. Roderick captained a boat that took part in the first Whitbread Round The World Race in 1973. Bens elder sister, Fleur, is married to Jerome Pels, secretary general of the International Sailing Federation . Ainslie was educated at two independent schools at the Terra Nova School in a rural area near the village of Holmes Chapel in Cheshire in north west England, and Truro School in the city of Truro, Cornwall, followed by Peter Symonds Sixth Form, Winchester, Hampshire.

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