Hannah Snellgrove

Hannah Snellgrove (born 9 July 1990) is a British sailor who has represented her country at multiple world championships in the ILCA 6 class and has been selected for the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Career
Snellgrove started sailing aged seven at the Salterns club in Lymington as a way of skipping traditional sports in PE sessions. She joined the British Sailing Team in 2011 but missed out on selection for the 2012 Summer Olympics and then, just weeks after the 2014 Sailing World Championships, she was dropped from the national squad.

During the next four years she self-funded her career through performing with her folk band named Bimbling, sailing coaching and working as a reporter at a local newspaper.

Snellgrove crowdfunded to pay for a new boat - raising £7,000 in just three weeks - and found new sponsors before taking part in the 2018 Sailing World Championships in Aarhus, Denmark, where she impressed the selectors enough to get back on the British team.

At the 2019 Women's ILCA 6 World Championship in Japan, Snellgrove secured her best finish to date at the global event coming seventh. However, she missed out on selection for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

In 2022, Snellgrove suffered a back injury which left her considering retirement, but she bounced back to finish 11th at the 2023 Sailing World Championships in The Hague, Netherlands, to secure Great Britain a quota spot for the 2024 Summer Olympics.

She finished 10th at the next edition of the Women's ILCA 6 World Championship in Mar del Plata, Argentina, in January 2024 and the following month was officially named in the team for the Paris Olympics.

Personal life
Snellgrove studied Natural Sciences at Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge achieving a first-class degree.