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Michael Blackburn (businessman)
Michael Blackburn is the name of: * Michael Blackburn (sailor) (born 1970), Australian Olympic medallist and sailor * Michael Blackburn (poet) (born 1954), British poet See also * Blackburn (surname) {{hndis, name=Blackburn, Michael ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Blackburn (sailor)
Michael Blackburn (born 27 May 1970 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian Olympic medallist, sailor and coach. He is well known for his crossing of Bass Strait in a Laser dinghy. He did so on 9 March 2005 in a record time (for sailing) of 13 hours 1 minute. In March 2005, he was ranked 3rd in the world in the Laser, behind Robert Scheidt of Brazil and Paul Goodison of Great Britain, and ahead of Mark Mendelblatt of the United States. Blackburn also won the 2006 Laser World Championships in Jeju, Korea. He placed 9th at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. He won a bronze medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Blackburn has coached three Gold medalists in three Olympics: He was coach of Australian Olympic Gold medalist Tom Slingsby in the Laser class at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. He followed this by coaching Tom Burton to gold in the Laser class at the 2016 Summer Olympics. In 2021, he coached Matt Wearn to Gold in the Laser class at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Blackburn (poet)
Michael Blackburn (born 1954) is a British poet and author. He has been associated with several literary ventures since the 1970s, as an editor, founder and publisher. Career Michael Blackburn was born in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, in 1954. He attended Richmond School in Yorkshire, and gained an MA in English Literature at the University of Leeds (1977). From 1976 to 1978, Blackburn was an editor on ''Poetry & Audience'', the poetry magazine produced by The School of English at the University of Leeds. Together with the American poet, Michael Coffey, he edited a special translations issue. During the early-to-mid-1980s, Blackburn was an editor on ''Stand Magazine'', Newcastle Upon Tyne. In 1985, he founded the poetry press Jackson's Arm, and in 1986 co-organised the readings at the Morden Tower in Newcastle with the poet Brendan Cleary, including the first Poetry Marathon in the northeast. In 1987, Blackburn set up a small literary magazine, ''Harry's Hand'', which ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |