BRITISH sailor and Rio gold medallist Saskia Clark has had her medical records made public by the hacking group Fancy Bears alongside six other British athletes.

But Clark, who was crowned Olympic champion alongside Hannah Mills in the women’s 470 event in Brazil this summer, insists she is “not ashamed” of getting a Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) having suffered from asthma.

A TUE is an exemption which allows a competitor to take banned substances for verified medical needs.

The Team GB star, who is based in Weymouth, was listed alongside Nile Wilson, Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, Steve Cummings and Richard Chambers as the latest group to have had their files stolen from the World Anti-Doping Agency.

Clark’s British Sailing team-mate Sophie Ainsworth was also listed.

There is no suggestion any of the athletes listed are involved in any wrongdoing.

In a piece with The Telegraph last week, before her records were released by the hackers, Clark said: “My name may well be among those leaked in the next ‘data dump’ made by the hacking group calling themselves Fancy Bears.

“I had a call from UK Anti-Doping warning me that it might be so I guess I should be prepared.

“I’m very relaxed about it if it happens. I have nothing to hide. I had a therapeutic use exemption in Beijing and again in London for asthma, which I’ve had since childhood. It’s nothing to be ashamed of.

“The TUEs allowed me to have two puffs of my inhaler in the morning, and two in the evening. Anything more than that and I would have been over the limit.”

She continued: “I had no worries about applying for one, and I don’t think it gave me a performance advantage.

“Coming from sailing I think I am maybe naive about doping in general. It is just not something that has ever crossed my path. I have never had to make that ‘choice’ that you hear some athletes talk about.”