September 21 - Double Olympic champion Sarah Ayton is to be represented by agency three60 Sports Management during the build-up to the London 2012 Games, where she will be seeking to become Britain's first woman to win a hat-trick of gold medals, it has been announced.



After winning her second gold medal in Beijing in 2008, Ayton took time out from the sport to marry 2009 world champion windsurfer Nick Dempsey and last year she gave birth to their son Thomas.

In April she announced her intention to compete in the 470 class alongside Saskia Clark in 2012 after the Yngling was dropped from the programme.

Ayton, 30, joins a client list at London-based three60 Sports Management that already includes cyclists Victoria Pendleton and Mark Cavendish and swimmer Jo Jackson.

She said: "I am really pleased to working with three60 during such an exciting time to be a British Olympian.

"Their knowledge and experience in the industry is going to be invaluable to me."

Ayton won her first Olympic gold in Athens in 2004 as one of the original ‘three blondes in a boat’ alongside Shirley Robertson and Sarah Webb.

Following that success she ran her own campaign and triumphed again in Beijing to win her second successive Olympic gold medal, alongside Webb and Pippa Wilson.


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