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James Weekes
James Higginson Weekes (September 11, 1911 – June 13, 1977) was an American sailor and Olympic champion. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, where he won a gold medal in the ''6 Metre (keelboat), 6 metre class'' with the boat ''Uanoria'', together with Herman Whiton, James Smith (sailor), James Smith, Alfred Loomis (sailor), Alfred Loomis and Michael Mooney (sailor), Michael Mooney. He graduated from Harvard University. References External links * * 1911 births 1977 deaths American male sailors (sport) Sailors at the 1948 Summer Olympics – 6 Metre Olympic gold medalists for the United States in sailing Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics Harvard University alumni {{US-yachtracing-Olympic-medalist-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] |
