Nationality Estonia Name Ingrid Puusta Class(es) Sailboard Role Olympic athlete | Club Noblessner Yacht Club Height 1.61 m Coach Matthew Rickard Weight 60 kg | |
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Born 8 November 1990 (age 33) ( 1990-11-08 ) Marjamaa, Estonia | ||
Ingrid Puusta (born November 8, 1990 in Märjamaa) is an Estonian Olympic windsurfer, who specialized in Neil Pryde RS:X class. She represented Estonia at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and has been currently training for Noblessner Yacht Club in Tallinn under her personal coach Matthew Rickard. As of March 2017, Puusta is ranked no. 10 in the world for the RS:X class by the World Sailing.
In Rio Olympics Puusta scarcely didn't reach to medal race becoming good 11th overall. Puusta competed in the women's RS:X class at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London by receiving a berth from the World Championships in Cadiz, Spain. Delivering a satisfactory effort in the opening series, Puusta managed to pull off a sixth position on the third leg, but fell short for the medal race with an accumulated net score of 134 and a fifteenth-place finish in a fleet of twenty-six sailors.
25 September 2016 Ingrid Puusta windsurfed 164,5 km across the Baltic Sea alone to rise money for disabled sailing in Estonia. Puusta started from Swedish Farö near Gotland on Sunday morning 0737 UTC+3 and finished 2125 UTC+3 at Türju in Saaremaa, Estonia. Weak wind extended her crossing time to nearly 14 hours. The Yellow Brick global Iridium satellite tracking system allowed viewers to follow the Baltic Sea crossing via the web link http://yb.tl/bsc-rsx