Profile
- Athlete: Sean O’Brien
- Age: 24 (born 06.01.84)
- Sail Number: AUS-120
- Height: 185cm
- Weight: 82kg
- Country: Brisbane, Australia
Introducing Sean O’Brien; a purpose driven elite athlete focusing the positive energy gained from a lifestyle of travel, experience, hard-work and attention to detail into his many succeses in the sport of windsurfing.
Living a lifestyle that can lead to limitless performance…
- International: training base in Netherlands during winter
- Study: Bachelor of Psychological Science (University of QLD)
- Club: Windsurfing QLD / Lake Cootharaba Sailing Club
- Gear: Gaastra Sails, Tabou Boards, Deboichet/Hurricane Fins
- Rankings: #11 in the World for Formula Windsurfing (2007)
Sean O’Brien is a 24 year old professional windsurfer from Brisbane, on the east coast of Australia. He started windsurfing when he was 5 years old being taught by his Father (a keen sailor and board builder) and began racing windsurfers at age 12. From an early age, Sean was a standout on the race course and has developed into an elite athlete in all the racing disciplines of Professional Windsurfing.
Sean has competed in Europe, Asia and the UK over the last few years at such events as the PWA World Tour, Formula World Championships, IFCA World Championships, the Euro-Cup Series, and many Olympic Regattas on the RS:X. He spends most of the Australian summer competing in Formula, Slalom and RS:X events all around Australia and New Zealand. At the end of 2005, Sean completed his studies, graduating with a degree in Psychological at UQ. Previous to this, he had spent some time studying Communication Design which mainly involved visual interactions, website and flash design and media communications. Graphic and website design has become somewhat of a passion for Sean and shortly after finishing his degree, he began his own graphic/media design company.
Windsurfing has now become an obsession and a career for Sean. After winning the Australian Formula Windsurfing Championships for the second consecutive time in 2007 and being the #1 ranked FW Windsurfer in Australia, Sean was selected to join the Australian Olympic Squad for Sailing in 2006 and the Australian Sailing Team Development Squad in 2007. During 2007, Sean lived in the Netherlands and spent the European summer travelling around Europe and Asia, competing in many World Class sailing regattas.
In Australia, Sean has been untouchable in every event he’s competed in for the past few seasons, taking the 2007 Australian and Oceanic Formula Windsurfing Titles, then backing that up by winning the Australian Olympic Windsurfing Class Title and a host of state event victories and titles. Winning the Olympic Class Championships had put Sean in the box seat for a successful Beijing Olympics berth, which was Sean’s top priority until an injury forced him to end his Olympic campaign late in 2007.
In early 2008, Sean turned his skills to event organisation, successfully organising (and competing in) the 2008 Oceanic and Australian Formula Windsurfing Championships at Suttons Beach, Redcliffe. The event was a big success and spawned and event wrap-up video which appeared on European television later in the year. Sean will again be heading to Europe this year to take on the world armed with some of the world’s best coaches, the fastest windsurfing equipment and the determination to achieve nothing short of the best in his windsurfing pursuits…
Sean
O'Brien is a 24 year old Professional Windsurfer hailing from Brisbane, Australia
- a purpose driven elite 
