Name: Bryony Shaw

Age: 29 Event: Windsurfing

Location: Weymouth, Dorset.

Time: July 31, 12pm - Women's RS:X

Local Link: Bryony was born in Wandsworth but moved to the south coast at an early age.

Career Best: In August 2011 Shaw won bronze at the Olympic Test Event at the 2012 Olympic venue in Weymouth and Portland.

Career High: Bryony Shaw is Britain’s most successful women’s windsurfer and the only British woman to have won an Olympic windsurfing medal (bronze) which she brought home from Beijing in 2008.

Sporting Background: Shaw first learned to windsurf aged nine on holiday in Southern France before honing her skills on family holidays to West Wales and on Farmoor Reservoir near her childhood home in Oxfordshire.

She Says : "Sailing is not as well-known as other Olympic disciplines, but I really feel that this year, with the British sailors being so strong, people are more aware of our medal potential."

We Say: "An novice in Beijing in 2008, Bryony returns to Olympic action as a medallist and will be out go one or two stages better with silver or gold."