Four-times winner of the Women’s Match Racing World Championship Lucy MacGregor is an English sailor voted YJA MS Amlin Yachtsman of the Year in 2019. MacGregor is an Olympian who was chosen to compete in the Elliot 6 metres event – a newly created match-racing event for the 2012 Summer Olympics. In one of the proudest moments of her career, MacGregor competed alongside her sister Kate MacGregor and Annie Lush, and the trio were nicknamed the “Match Race Girls”. The team finished seventh in the event held at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy. The MacGregor sisters have remained proud members of the British Sailing Team, and have now set their sights on winning gold at the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games in 2021.
Born in the coastal town of Poole in Dorset, MacGregor began sailing at the age of six in local Poole Harbour, and is a member of Poole Yacht Club. MacGregor first rose to prominence when she won the bronze medal at the 2007 World Championships alongside Olympic gold medallist Shirley Robertson and Annie Lush. After her success in the World Championship, MacGregor was a candidate to be selected for the 2008 Olympic Games in the Yngling three-person keelboat class, but was overlooked in favour of the eventual gold medal winners Sarah Webb, Sarah Ayton and Pippa Wilson.
Four years later, MacGregor finally made her Olympic debut at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the new Elliott 6 metres match-racing event. With an already incredible career that has seen her win the Women’s Match Racing World Championship four times, MacGregor will be aiming to add Olympic Gold to her collection of titles.
