Emma Wilson

Emma Wilson (born 7 April 1999) is a British windsurfer who won a bronze medal in the RS:X event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, and iQFoil event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. She has won multiple medals at the iQFoil World Championships and IQFoil European Championships and RS:X European Championships. As a youngstar, Wilson won the RS:X events at the Youth Sailing World Championships in 2016 and 2017.

Personal life Wilson was born on 7 April 1999 in Nottingham. She grew up in Christchurch, Dorset. She is the daughter of Penny Wilson ( Way), who competed at the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics. Aged 12, she won the U15 Techno 293 World Championships, and the U15 RS:X event. She later won the event in 2016, and 2017. She won the 2017/18 UK Windsurfing Association Windsurfer of the Year award.

At the 2018 Sailing World Championships in Aarhus, Denmark, Wilson won the opening RS:X race by over a minute. She eventually finished fourth at the event. In the same year, she came 6th at the Sailing World Cup event in Enoshima, She came third overall, and second European, at the 2019 RS:X European Championships in Palma de Mallorca, and came fourth at the 2020 RS:X World Championships, 11 points behind third place.

Wilson qualified to compete in the RS:X event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. After the Olympics were postponed from 2020 to 2021, British Sailing confirmed that their squad selection were unchanged, and so Wilson was still selected for the Games. She finished fourth in the Olympic test event in 2019. On the third day of racing at the Games, Wilson won two of the three races, and moved into first place overall. After the fourth and final day of heats, Wilson was second behind China's Lu Yunxiu. She eventually finished third in the event.

In 2022, Wilson came second at the IQFoil European Championships, her first major event in the iQFoil class. She won the 2023 Trofeo Princesa Sofía event, and came third at the 2023 IQFoil European Championships. Wilson also came third in the iQFoil event at the 2023 Sailing World Championships, which meant that Great Britain qualified a competitor for the event at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Later in the year, Wilson was confirmed as Team GB's selection for the Games together with fellow surfer Ellie Aldridge who competes in the new Olympic sport of Formula Kite. Wilson later took silver at the 2024 iQFoil World Championships, winning 15 of the 20 races in the competition

Wilson won a bronze medal in the iQFoil event at the 2024 Summer Olympics. She was beaten by the Israeli Sharon Kantor and the Italian Marta Maggetti took the gold. Wilson was very disappointed at the result, as a new format meant that although she had done very well in the competition, she had not won the gold medal, because of the final race. She told the press that she was probably done with windsurfing. Wilson won the 2025 iQFoil World Championships event.