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Karl-Heinz Thun
Karl-Heinz Thun (29 April 1937 – 15 June 1993) was a German sailor. He won a silver medal in the ''Dragon (keelboat), Dragon class'' together with Paul Borowski and Konrad Weichert at the 1972 Summer Olympics. References External links * * * 1937 births 1993 deaths Sportspeople from Rostock German male sailors (sport) Sailors at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Dragon Sailors at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Dragon Olympic sailors for East Germany Olympic silver medalists for East Germany Olympic bronze medalists for East Germany Olympic medalists in sailing Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics {{Germany-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] |
