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Gunnlaugur Jónasson
Gunnlaugur Jónasson (born 9 April 1962) is an Icelandic sailing (sport), sailor. He competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics. References External links * 1962 births Living people Icelandic male sailors (sport), Gunnlaugur Jónasson Olympic sailors for Iceland, Gunnlaugur Jónasson Sailors at the 1984 Summer Olympics – 470 Sailors at the 1988 Summer Olympics – 470 Place of birth missing (living people) {{Iceland-yachtracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sailing (sport)
The sport of sailing involves a variety of competitive sailing formats that are sanctioned through various sailing federations and yacht clubs. Racing disciplines include matches within a fleet of sailing craft, between a pair thereof or among teams. Additionally, there are specialized competitions that include setting speed records. Racing formats include both closed courses and point-to-point contests; they may be in sheltered waters, coast-wise or on the open ocean. Most competitions are held within defined classes or ratings that either entail one type of sailing craft to ensure a contest primarily of skill or rating the sailing craft to create classifications or handicaps. On water, a sailing competition among multiple vessels is a regatta, which usually consists of multiple individual races, where the boat crew that performs best in over the series of races is the overall winner. There is a broad variety of kinds of races and sailboats used for racing from large yacht to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
