Vital statistics

Name: Hannah Mills

Date of birth: February 29 1988

Star sign: Pisces

Place of birth: Cardiff

Current hometown: Weymouth

First boat sailed and where? Mirror dinghy out of Mylor Sailing Club on a family holiday to Cornwall, I wanted to do whatever my older brothers did!

Biggest influence in your career to date? Either Alan Williams or Joe Glanfield

Your worst moment in sailing? Not qualifying for Youth Worlds in 2006

Your best moment in sailing? Winning 420 Worlds in 2006

Best sailing venue in the UK? Weymouth of course!!

Best sailing venue in the World? So far Gran Canaria

If you weren’t a professional sailor what else would you be? Rally Driver! Though my driving skills might need to be improved quite significantly.

How do you progress from a club sailor to an Olympic class sailor? By having fun Youth Sailing but knowing when to switch on from having fun to being serious!

What are your greatest passions outside of sailing? Windsurfing, climbing, hanging out with friends.

Has injury ever prevented you from sailing? Nope nothing major!

Most expensive sailing accident? Head-on upwind/downwind port starboard after they had just gone round the windward mark and we couldn’t avoid each other! Wrote off their 420 and mine wasn’t in great shape!

Do you follow any other sports? I like watching most sports, tennis, rugby, don’t mind a bit of Formula 1 or football.

What other sports do you play? Nothing serious just as mentioned above, tennis, windsurfing, climbing. I want to join a hockey team next year as I used to love it as school

What would you love to do but never have the time or money for it? Go away to do some proper wave sailing on a windsurfer

What word or phrase most depicts your personality? Outgoing

If you were a pantomime character who would it be? Cinderella because I would like to be her

Do you have any lucky charms or rituals? Nope, don’t believe in luck

What’s your greatest fear or phobia? Spiders and the dark!

Favourite reality show and would you go on it? The Apprentice and YES!

Name three things that are always in your shopping trolley? Bread, milk and at the moment jelly

What was the last book you read? Some girly rubbish probably

What makes you angry? Not winning

Dream holiday? Brazil!