Tiger Tyson (sailor)
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| Full name | Tiger Peter Cyril Tyson | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Antigua and Barbuda | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 May 2002 Auckland, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | Antigua and Barbuda | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Sailing | ||||||||||||||
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| Class(es) | IKA Formula Kite, IKA Kite Foil, IKA Twin Tip Racing | ||||||||||||||
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Tiger Peter Cyril Tyson (born 8 May 2002) is a New Zealand born Antiguan kiteboarder. Born in Auckland, he moved to Antigua when he was two years old and started kitesurfing when he was seven. He had watched the Olympics when he was twelve years old and wanted to qualify for an Olympic Games. He qualified for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics and placed seventh.
Tyson competed in his first Formula Kite World Championship in 2021 and competed at two subsequent editions. He had ranked as high as fourteenth in the world, then had to drop out of university for his preparations for the 2024 Summer Olympics. He qualified for the Summer Games after he had won a silver medal in the men's kite event at the 2023 Pan American Games. At the 2024 Summer Games, he placed seventeenth.
Tiger Peter Cyril Tyson was born on 8 May 2002[1] in Auckland, New Zealand.[2] His father Mick was a captain of a superyacht while his stepmother Pammie is a rower who had participated in the World's Toughest Row.[3] The family settled in Antigua when Tiger was two years old after traveling to multiple locations by boat.[4] There, he began kitesurfing at seven years of age and surfed together with his father.[5]
When Tyson was ten years old, he watched the table tennis events at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and wanted to qualify for an Olympic Games. Once he had learned that kitesurfing was going to be a medal event at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, he started training seriously at the age of thirteen in hopes to qualify.[2] He was trained by world champion Andre Philips.[5]
