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Elliott 6m
The Elliott 6m is an Olympic-class keelboat, designed by New Zealander, Greg Elliott. It was selected for the women's match race, match racing event for the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2012 Olympics. The Elliott 6m carries a spinnaker pole and Spinnaker#Symmetric, symmetric spinnaker which is considered more suitable for match racing. Olympics *Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics See also *Elliott 6m World Championships References External links Elliott Marine ISAF Elliott 6m Microsite Elliott 6m, Classes of World Sailing Keelboats Olympic sailing classes 2000s sailboat type designs {{Ship-type-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elliott 6m
The Elliott 6m is an Olympic-class keelboat, designed by New Zealander, Greg Elliott. It was selected for the women's match race, match racing event for the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2012 Olympics. The Elliott 6m carries a spinnaker pole and Spinnaker#Symmetric, symmetric spinnaker which is considered more suitable for match racing. Olympics *Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics See also *Elliott 6m World Championships References External links Elliott Marine ISAF Elliott 6m Microsite Elliott 6m, Classes of World Sailing Keelboats Olympic sailing classes 2000s sailboat type designs {{Ship-type-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keelboat
A keelboat is a riverine cargo-capable working boat, or a small- to mid-sized recreational sailing yacht. The boats in the first category have shallow structural keels, and are nearly flat-bottomed and often used leeboards if forced in open water, while modern recreational keelboats have prominent fixed fin keels, and considerable draft. The two terms may draw from cognate words with different final meaning. A keep boat, keelboat, or keel-boat is a type of usually long, narrow cigar-shaped riverboat, or unsheltered water barge which is sometimes also called a poleboat—that is built about a slight keel and is designed as a boat built for the navigation of rivers, shallow lakes, and sometimes canals that were commonly used in America including use in great numbers by settlers making their way west in the century-plus of wide-open western American frontiers. They were also used extensively for transporting cargo to market, and for exploration and trading expeditions, for wat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Curtis
Nina Curtis (born 24 January 1988) is an Australian sailor. She represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in sailing, winning a silver medal. Personal Curtis was born on 24 January 1988 in Sydney. She attended Bilgola Plateau Primary School before going to high school at Barrenjoey High School. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Human Movement from the University of Technology, Sydney after attending from 2006 to 2008. , she lives in Sydney. Curtis is tall and weighs . Sailing Curtis is a sailor. She started competing in the sport when she was eight years old, after having her parents expose her to it since she was a toddler. She has been coached by Euan McNicol since 2010. From 2008 to 2010, she was coached by Dayne Sharpe. Her primary training base is Sydney, with a secondary training base in Weymouth. She is a member of the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club. She has a sailing scholarship from the Australian Institute of Sport and New South Wales Institute of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keelboats
A keelboat is a riverine cargo-capable working boat, or a small- to mid-sized recreational sailing yacht. The boats in the first category have shallow structural keels, and are nearly flat-bottomed and often used leeboards if forced in open water, while modern recreational keelboats have prominent fixed fin keels, and considerable draft. The two terms may draw from cognate words with different final meaning. A keep boat, keelboat, or keel-boat is a type of usually long, narrow cigar-shaped riverboat, or unsheltered water barge which is sometimes also called a poleboat—that is built about a slight keel and is designed as a boat built for the navigation of rivers, shallow lakes, and sometimes canals that were commonly used in America including use in great numbers by settlers making their way west in the century-plus of wide-open western American frontiers. They were also used extensively for transporting cargo to market, and for exploration and trading expeditions, for wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classes Of World Sailing
Class or The Class may refer to: Common uses not otherwise categorized * Class (biology), a taxonomic rank * Class (knowledge representation), a collection of individuals or objects * Class (philosophy), an analytical concept used differently from such group phenomena as "types" or "kinds" * Class (set theory), a collection of sets that can be unambiguously defined by a property that all its members share * Hazard class, a dangerous goods classification * Social class, the hierarchical arrangement of individuals in society, usually defined by wealth and occupation * Working class, can be defined by rank, income or collar Arts, entertainment, and media * "The Class" (song), 1959 Chubby Checker song *Character class in role-playing games and other genres *Class 95 (radio station), a Singaporean radio channel Films * ''Class'' (film), 1983 American film * ''The Class'' (2007 film), 2007 Estonian film * ''The Class'' (2008 film), 2008 film (''Entre les murs'') Television * ''Class ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elliott 6m World Championships
The Women's Match Racing World Championship is arranged by the International Sailing Federation. With female match racing included in the 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition for the first time this section of the sport is growing in popularity. History The first ISAF Women's Match Racing World Championship was held in 1999 in Genoa, Italy after having been held at the 1998 ISAF World Sailing Games in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. For the 2010 edition the Sonar was used. In 2011 and 2012 the class used was Elliott 6m as preparation for the 2012 Summer Olympics, where Elliott 6m was an Olympic sailing class. Editions Medalists 2011 Perth, Australia December Boat Used – Elliott 6m – 3 Person Crew Held as part of the 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships results can be found on that page. 2010 Newport RI, USA Boats Used – Sonar (keelboat) The Sonar is a one design trailerable racing sailboat that was designed by Canadian naval architect Bruce Kirby and first bui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikaela Wulff
Mikaela Wulff (24 April 1990 in Helsinki) is a Finnish sailor who participated in the Elliott 6m competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She was in a crew led by Silja Lehtinen along with Silja Kanerva Silja Kanerva (born 28 January 1985 in San Diego, United States) is a Finnish sailor who took part in the Elliott 6m competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She was in the crew led by Silja Lehtinen and accompanied by Mikaela Wulff Mikaela Wulf ... and finished in 3rd place, achieving bronze medal. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Wulff, Mikaela Finnish female sailors (sport) 1990 births Living people Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Elliott 6m Olympic sailors of Finland Olympic bronze medalists for Finland Olympic medalists in sailing Sportspeople from Helsinki Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silja Kanerva
Silja Kanerva (born 28 January 1985 in San Diego, United States) is a Finnish sailor who took part in the Elliott 6m competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She was in the crew led by Silja Lehtinen and accompanied by Mikaela Wulff Mikaela Wulff (24 April 1990 in Helsinki) is a Finnish sailor who participated in the Elliott 6m competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She was in a crew led by Silja Lehtinen along with Silja Kanerva Silja Kanerva (born 28 January 1985 in San ... who earned the bronze medal. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Kanerva, Silja Finnish female sailors (sport) 1985 births Living people Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Elliott 6m Olympic sailors of Finland Olympic bronze medalists for Finland Olympic medalists in sailing Sportspeople from San Diego Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silja Lehtinen
Silja Lehtinen (born 5 November 1985 in Helsinki) is a Finnish sailor. Lehtinen studies medicine at the University of Helsinki. Silja Lehtinen has sailed in two Olympic regattas. In 2008, at the age of 23, she skippered the Finnish team in the Yngling class to an 11th place. In 2012, she participated in Women's Match Race (Elliott 6m) and won a bronze medal with her crew, Silja Kanerva and Mikaela Wulff. In 2012 as well, only a month before the Olympic regatta, Lehtinen and her crew won match race world championship title in Gothenburg, Sweden. Her brother Lauri skippered the Finnish 49er into seventh place at the 2012 Olympic regatta. As a 15 year old, she won the Byte The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit ... class World Championship in 2001. References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland At The 2012 Summer Olympics
Finland competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. The nation has competed at every Summer Olympic Games since its official debut in 1908. The Finnish Olympic Committee ( fi, Suomen Olympiakomitea, ''SO'') sent a total of 56 athletes to the Games, 29 men and 27 women, to compete in 14 sports. There was only a single competitor in artistic gymnastics, taekwondo, weightlifting and tennis. Notable Finnish athletes included the defending champion Satu Mäkelä-Nummela in women's trap shooting, and Olympic bronze medalist Tero Pitkämäki in men's javelin throw. Badminton player Anu Nieminen, and swimmer Hanna-Maria Seppälä, who finished fourth in the women's freestyle event, made their fourth Olympic appearance as the most experienced athletes. Seppälä also became Finland's first female flag bearer at the Summer Olympics' opening ceremony (in the Winter Olympics, Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi had carried the Finnish flag in 1994). Suomen Olympiakomit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flag Of Finland
The flag of Finland ( fi, Suomen lippu, sv, Finlands flagga), also called ' ("Blue Cross Flag"), dates from the beginning of the 20th century. On a white background, it features a blue Nordic cross, which represents Christianity. The state flag has a coat of arms in the centre but is otherwise identical to the civil flag. The swallow-tailed state flag is used by the military. The presidential standard is identical to the swallow-tailed state flag but also has in its upper left corner the Cross of Liberty after the Order of the Cross of Liberty, which has the president of Finland as its grand master. Like Sweden's, Finland's national flag is based on the Scandinavian cross. It was adopted after independence from Russia, when many patriotic Finns wanted a special flag for their country, but its design dates back to the 19th century. The blue colouring is said to represent the country's thousands of lakes and the sky, with white for the snow that covers the land in winter. This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucinda Whitty
Lucinda Whitty (born 9 November 1989) is an Australian sailor. She represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in sailing. Personal Nicknamed Lu, Whitty was born on 9 November 1989 in Sydney. Jeremy Whitty is her father and has competed in several sailing races. She has siblings and they are active in competitive sailing. She attended Lane Cove Public School before going to high school at SCEGGS Darlinghurst. She enrolled at the University of Technology, Sydney in 2008 and is enrolled as of 2012. She is working on a Bachelor of Business. , she lives in Sydney. Whitty is tall and weighs . Sailing Whitty is a sailor, acting as a bowman. As a five-year-old, she started participating in the sport. The boat she competes in is Only Racing and is operated by teammate Olivia Price. Her primary training base is Sydney, with a secondary training base in Weymouth. She is a member of the Middle Harbour Yacht Club. She has a sailing scholarship from the Australian Institute of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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