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Paal Kaasen
Paal Kaasen (14 November 1883 – 11 July 1963) was a Norway, Norwegian sailor who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was a crew member of the Norwegian boat ''Jo'', which won the gold medal in the Sailing at the 1920 Summer Olympics – 6 Metre#6 Metre International Rule 1919, 6 metre class (1919 rating). References External links * * 1883 births 1963 deaths Norwegian male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for Norway Olympic gold medalists for Norway Olympic medalists in sailing Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics Sailors at the 1920 Summer Olympics – 6 Metre {{Norway-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] |
