She GB Windsurfer Emma Wilson competed with her siblings to thank her for the bronze medal she won at the Tokyo Olympics, their mother penny Has been revealed.
Wilson, 22 years old, from Christchurch Dorset Twenty-five years after her mother won seventh place in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, she won third place in the RS:X group of female windsurfers on Saturday.
predecessor Technology 293 World champion under the age of 15, Emma Wilson has been pursuing Olympic glory for many years.
She just missed the medal in the recent world European Won the fourth place in the Olympic test two years ago.
However, she was successful in Tokyo and won the GB team’s first women’s windsurfing medal since Bryony Shaw won the bronze medal in Beijing 13 years ago.
Mrs. Wilson participated in the competition as Penny Way. She won the World Windsurfing Championship in 1986, 1990 and 1991, but won medals for the GB team in the 1992 and 1996 Olympics.
Despite her own success, Mrs. Wilson said she was not the one who inspired her daughter to achieve the dream of sports achievement.
As a competitive sister, she just tried her best to beat her brother, he might take her on the road of windsurfing
She told PA News Agency: “This is her business. She and her brother Dan (a professional windsurfer) watched the Olympics on TV and said: “We want to do this. “I don’t think she even knew that I participated in the Olympics before she was 12 years old.” It is not big and does not dominate family life. “
Mrs. Wilson said that her daughter boarded a skateboard for the first time when she was six or seven years old and took the sport seriously since she was 13.
“Her brother is a very good windsurfer,” she said.
“As a competitive little sister, she just tried her best to beat her brother, and he probably took her on the road of windsurfing.
“She played hockey to a high level and tennis to a high level. Then she had to focus on one because she was so tired.
“Some of the decisions she has to make are really very, very difficult. “What sport am I in? “Is the first, and then “what should I do with my education?” “Can I do it later?”
“I think for me and her, this (winning the bronze medal) justified the many difficult decisions she had to make.”
Before Emma left for Tokyo, she got some advice on expected stress from coach Barry Edgington and her mother.
“She has a completely different experience for me. Barry and I were able to prepare for her because Barry participated in the Olympics with me in 1992 and 1996 and then continued to be a coach,” said Mrs. Wilson.
“She is fully prepared for the pressure of the Olympics, and the best way to deal with it is to enjoy every second. I think this is what she did.
“I feel very proud-because she will go home happily, I feel both proud and pleased.”
