Andrew Simpson (sailor)
Updated on 10 May 2013.
Andrew James Simpson, MBE (17 December 1976 – 9 May 2013), nicknamed "Bart", was a British sailor. He won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, as crew for skipper Iain Percy in the Star class. Simpson was killed in the capsize of the catamaran he was crewing on 9 May 2013, while training for the America's Cup in San Francisco Bay.
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