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Jonathan Bonnitcha (b 1981) is an Australian windsurfing champion and the 2006 New South Wales Rhodes Scholar.
Sporting Achievements[edit]
Bonnitcha is a competitive windsurfer and is a blue in sailing. In 2001 and 2002 he was placed 4th and 3rd respectively at the World Sailing Championships in the 29er Class.[1][2] In 2003 he was a member of the national Olympic squad for windsurfing,[3] and in 2004 he was named in the Shadow Olympic windsurfing team.[3] In 2005 he came first in the Australian Sailing Championship (Mistral Class), and was ranked top in the Australian Olympic Class Windsurfing Rankings.[3][4]
Education[edit]
Bonnitcha was educated at Hunters Hill Public School, Chatswood Public School and Newington College (1993-1998)[5] before entering the University of Sydney. He is a University of Sydney graduate in Economics and Law. He was awarded First Class Honours in Economics in 2003 and the Convocation Medal in 2004[2][3] He has twice been awarded a Senate Scholarship and the Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship for academic and sporting excellence. He was awarded a University Blue for sailing in 2002. Other awards include the University Medal, the EC Wheelwright Prize, the JK Galbraith Prize, the Paul M Sweeney Prize, and the 2006 NSW Rhodes Scholarship.[6][2]
As a student he volunteered at the Marrickville Legal Centre and on exchange studied International Economic Law and Human Rights at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands.[3]
Other activities[edit]
Bonnitcha spent 6 months based in Barcelona as a freelance travel writer and tourism critic.[7] He was noted mainly as a food and dance critic, and for his exposition of the "pichanga aethestic". His work "Development as Tourism" was also begun at this time, before being completed in Oxford.
Family[edit]
Jonathan's sister, Jacqui (b 1985) became the first female to win the 29er World Championship in 2005.[8][9] Jonathan's brother, Paul (b 1982), crewed with Jonathan in the 2001 and 2002 29er World Titles.[10] Their mother, Jenni, is the CYCA Youth Academy coach.[9]
References[edit]
- ^ Jon Bonnitcha Sailor biography, International Sailing Federation (ISAF), sailing.org
- ^ a b c The University of Sydney Alumni Council Convocation Medal 2004 usyd.edu.au
- ^ a b c d e "University of Sydney student wins 2006 Rhodes scholarship" University of Sydney News, 10 November 2005, usyd.edu.au
- ^ "Jonathan Bonnitcha - Australia's new Mistral sailboard national champion" Yachting New South Wales, 18 February 2005, yachting.org.au
- ^ "Newington College Register of Past Students 1863-1998" pg17, Sydney, 1999
- ^ "Rhodes Scholarship for Bonnitcha", 10/11/2005, SydneyUniSport.com
- ^ "Jonathan Bonnitcha", People, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), cisdl.org
- ^ "Bonnitcha and Bell win the double" University of Sydney Sports Awards, susport.com
- ^ a b "Bonnitcha and McNicol win 29er Worlds" Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA), cyca.com.au
- ^ 2002 AUS World Bronze Medallists Yachting Australia, yachting.org.au
External links[edit]
Category:1981 births
Category:Living people
Category:Australian Rhodes scholars
Category:Old Newingtonians
Category:University of Sydney alumni
Category:Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
Category:Australian windsurfers