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‘The Making of Emma Wilson’
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Emma competes for Great Britain in the Olympic Windsurfing Class. She is the 2025 iQFOiL World Champion and a double Olympic medallist.
Emma has become one of the most successful windsurfers in the world. Selected for Tokyo 2020 at just 20, she trained alone through lockdown, led midway through the regatta, and took bronze, level on points with silver and two points behind gold, in one of the closest Olympic finishes the sport has seen.
For Paris 2024 she switched to the new iQFOiL foiling discipline, winning European silver in 2022 and reaching the podium at every major event in 2023 and 2024.
In Marseille she secured a medal before the final day, but a controversial new final format and a one-sided wind shift cost her the gold, leaving her with a second bronze.
Now aiming for Los Angeles 2028 and Brisbane 2032, she had her best season yet in 2025, winning the World Championships and finishing second at the Europeans, and so far in 2026 she has won in Lanzarote and at the Olympic venue in Los Angeles.
About Emma
Emma’s dream as a child was to go to the Olympics. Today she is a double Olympic medallist and the 2025 iQFOiL World Champion.
Key achievements
Senior
2x Olympic medals
1x World Champion
3x World Cup Champion
8x World & European Championship medals
Age group
6x World Champion
5x European Champion
Upcoming Events
2025 iQFOiL European Championship
Emma competing at 2026 Trofeo Princesa Sofia
Emma visiting a school to talk about windsurfing
Emma wins Gold at IQFoil International Games in Lanzarote