Ian Walker (37) is one of Britain’s most accomplished sailors with five world championships, two Olympic silver medals and two America’s Cup campaigns to his credit. The two Olympic medals came in the 470 dinghy (Atlanta 1996) and Star keelboat (Sydney 2000). Ian then went onto Coach Shirley Robertson and her Yngling Team to gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics. When Briton launched its first bid for the America’s Cup for 14 years in 2000, Walker was named as the skipper. Then in the 2007 America’s Cup he joined fellow Olympic medallist Iain Percy as the navigator of the Italian team +39. America’s Cup commitments were combined with the highly successful TP52 campaign as skippers of Patches, owned by Eamon Conneely. Walker has a Geography degree from Cambridge University and is married with two young daughters.

Career Highlights
Olympics
1996 Atlanta – silver medal 470 dinghy class
2000 Sydney – silver medal Star keelboat class
2004 Athens – Coach to gold medal winning Yngling team
America’s Cup
2002 – Skipper/helmsman GBR Challenge
2007 – Tactician +39 America’s Cup
TP52
2006 - TP52 Global Championship Winner tactician, skipper Patches
2007 – 3rd Breitling MedCup circuit & 2nd Global Championships, skipper Patches