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Shearer teamed with Leslie Egnot in the Women"s 470 Class and finished second behind the Spanish crew. Shearer and Egnot also finished second in the 1989 470 Class World Championships in Japan.
Shearer teamed with Leslie Egnot in the Women"s 470 Class and finished second behind the Spanish crew. Shearer and Egnot also finished second in the 1989 470 Class World Championships in Japan.
January Shearer and Fiona Galloway competed for New Zealand in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul in the 470W Class - this was the first time a women"s yachting class was contested at the Olympic Games. They finished ninth. Shearer and Egnot competed again at 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta finishing 16th. Their competitiveness was hampered by an injury Egnot was carrying at the time.
She was also part of the New Zealand crew that won the 1990 World Women"s Match Racing Championships in New New York Shearer and Galloway also won the 100 year anniversary of "Kiel Week" Germany in the 470W Class. Shearer later married fellow international yachtsman Murray Jones a five-time America"s Cup winning sailor and designer and five-time New Zealand Olympian, and she commentated for Television New Zealand and TNZ Very Important Person"s for the 1995, 2000 and 2003 America"s Cups and completed a Mutual Broadcasting System (Management) Honours in 2002 while working as an engineer
She was educated at Otago Girls" High School and is a life member of Yachting New Zealand and Takapuna Boating Club.
