Tony Philp

Who is Tony Philp?

Anthony Steven "Tony" Philp is a former Windsurfing World Champion and Olympic sailor from Fiji.

One of the most popular contemporary sporting figures to hail from the Fiji Islands, he is the only Fiji-born athlete, along with Golfer Vijay Singh, to be ranked number one in his sports official world ranking list.

Throughout his career Philp won an unprecedented 11 individual Windsurfer Class World titles at the 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994 World Championships and competed at 5 consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000. He was also vice–world champion in both the Windsurfer and Mistral Olympic Class in 1989 and 1999 and topped the ISAF world-ranking list for Olympic windsurfing in 1997.

At age 15 Philp was the youngest ever athlete to compete at an Olympic sailing event, and was a flag bearer for his country at the 2000 Olympic Games.