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Sebastian Östling
John Sebastian Östling (born 2 June 1984 in Onsala, Kungsbacka) is a Swedish sailor, who specializes in the 470 class, a two-person dinghy. He represented Sweden, along with his partner Anton Dahlberg, in two editions of the Olympic Games (2008 and 2012), and has also been training representing Royal Swedish Yacht Club throughout most of his sporting career under his personal coach and mentor Per Frykholm. Saling career Olympic 470 campaigns with Dahlberg (2007–2012) Sebastian Östling and Anton Dahlberg had gone to the same ( sv, riksidrottsgymnasium), but started to sail together first when they both were studying at the Stockholm School of Economics. Dahlberg and Östling finished 35th out of 112 in the men's 470 event at the 2007 ISAF Sailing World Championships in Cascais, taking in a bullet in the first race of the opening series. Östling made his Olympic debut at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he paired up with skipper Dahlberg in the men's 470 clas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Onsala
Onsala () is a urban areas of Sweden, locality situated in Kungsbacka Municipality, Halland County, Sweden, with 11,951 inhabitants in 2010. It is also a 14 km long peninsula on the west coast of Sweden, facing Kattegat, south of Gothenburg. It dates back to the age of the vikings and was originally an area devoted to the god Odin, the name being a corruption of the old norse ''Odin's Sala''. In English "The Halls of Odin" The population is around 12-14,000 with a densely inhabited east coast, mainly consisting of single-family homes. The biggest village is Gottskär, in older days a fishing village, and which today has a few restaurants and a Pleasure craft, leisure boat harbour. Lars Gathenhielm was born in the old parish of Onsala. He was a Swedish privateer commissioned by the King of Sweden, king to raid Denmark, Danish ships. His wife, Ingela Gathenhielm, Ingela, took over his business as a privateer as a widow. They are interred in a basement crypt beneath the smaller ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NBC Olympics
The broadcasts of ''Summer'' and ''Winter Olympic Games'' produced by ''NBC Sports'' are shown on the various platforms of NBCUniversal in the United States, including the NBC broadcast network, NBC Sports app, NBCOlympics.com, Peacock, Spanish language network Telemundo, and many of the company's cable networks. The event telecasts during the Olympics air primarily in the evening and on weekend afternoons on NBC with additional live coverage on the NBC Sports app and NBCOlympics.com, with varying times on its cable networks (such as after the close of the stock market day on CNBC, the early mornings on MSNBC, and overnights on the USA Network). The commercial name of the broadcasting services is NBC Olympics. The on-air title of the telecasts, as typically announced at the start of each broadcast and during sponsor billboards is always the official name of the games in question – for example, ''The Games of the XXIX Olympiad'' for the 2008 Summer Games. However, promotional log ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martinique
Martinique ( , ; gcf, label=Martinican Creole, Matinik or ; Kalinago: or ) is an island and an overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France. An integral part of the French Republic, Martinique is located in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea. It has a land area of and a population of 364,508 inhabitants as of January 2019.Populations légales 2019: 972 Martinique INSEE One of the , it is directly north of Saint Lucia, northwest of |
Carrickfergus
Carrickfergus ( , meaning " Fergus' rock") is a large town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It sits on the north shore of Belfast Lough, from Belfast. The town had a population of 27,998 at the 2011 Census. It is County Antrim's oldest town and one of the oldest towns in Ireland as a whole. Carrickfergus Castle, built in the late 12th century at the behest of Anglo-Norman knight John de Courcy, was the capital of the Earldom of Ulster. After the earldom's collapse, it remained the only English outpost in Ulster for the next four centuries. Carrickfergus was the administrative centre for Carrickfergus Borough Council, before this was amalgamated into the Mid and East Antrim District Council in 2015, and forms part of the Belfast Metropolitan Area. It is also a townland of 65 acres, a civil parish and a barony. The town is the subject of the classic Irish folk song "Carrickfergus", a 19th-century translation of an Irish-language song (''Do Bhí Bean Uasal'') from Munster, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Optimist World Championships
Optimist World Championship are annual World Championship sailing regattas in the Optimist Optimism is an attitude reflecting a belief or hope that the outcome of some specific endeavor, or outcomes in general, will be positive, favorable, and desirable. A common idiom used to illustrate optimism versus pessimism is a glass filled wi ... class organised by the International Optimist Dinghy Association. Editions Medalists References {{World championships in sailing Optimist competitions Recurring sporting events established in 1962 World championships in sailing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medemblik
Medemblik () is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland and the region of West-Frisia. It lies immediately south of the polder and former municipality of Wieringermeer. History Medemblik was a prosperous trading town, when in 1282, Floris V, Count of Holland, successfully invaded West Friesland. He built several fortresses to control the region, one of which was Kasteel Radboud in Medemblik, and awarded Medemblik city rights in 1289. After Floris V was murdered in 1296, the local Frisian besieged the castle, but in 1297 an army from Holland thwarted their efforts to starve out the inhabitants, which included Medemblik citizens.Ben DijkhuiThe Castle at Medemblik/ref> Several more attacks took place in the following centuries. The most notorious of these happened in June 1517, when Medemblik was attacked from mainland Frisia by about 4000 pirates known as the Arumer Zwarte Hoop, led by Pier Gerlofs Donia and Wijard Jelckama. Many citizens f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delta Lloyd Regatta
Medemblik Regatta, formerly known as the Delta Lloyd Regatta, is an annual sailing regatta in Medemblik, the Netherlands. It hosts the Olympic sailing classes, Olympic and Paralympic classes. It is part of the 2015 EUROSAF Champions Sailing Cup. Winners Men's 470 *2015 – Johan Molund & Sebastian Östling Women's 470 *2015 – Sophie Weguelin & Eilidh McIntyre Open 470 *2017 – Pavel Sozykin & Denis Gribanov, Men's 49er *2015 – Diego Botin & Iago López (sailor), Iago López *2017 – Tim Fischer (sailor), Tim Fischer & Fabian Graf Women's 49er FX *2015 – Annemiek Bekkering & Annette Duetz *2017 – Enia Ninčević & Peiar Cupac Men's Finn *2015 – Pieter-Jan Postma Men's Laser *2015 – Matthew Wearn *2017 – Elliot Hanson Women's Laser Radial *2015 – Marit Bouwmeester *2017 – Manami Doi Mixed Nacra 17 *2015 – Lin Ea Cenholt & Christian Peter Lübeck Men's RS:X *2015 – Paweł Tarnowski (sailor), Paweł Tarnowski *2017 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Summer Olympics
The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 3 August. Rio de Janeiro was announced as the host city at the 121st IOC Session in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 2 October 2009. 11,238 athletes from 207 nations took part in the 2016 Games, including first-time entrants Kosovo at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Kosovo, South Sudan at the 2016 Summer Olympics, South Sudan, and the Refugee Olympic Team at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Refugee Olympic Team. With 306 sets of medals, the Games featured 28 Olympic sports, including rugby sevens and golf, which were added to the Olympic program in 2009. These sporting events took place at 33 venues in the host city and at five separate venues in the Brazilian cities of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Molund
Carl Johan Styrbjörn Molund (born 13 October 1975) is a Swedish Olympic sailor. He finished 12th in the 470 event at the 2000 Summer Olympics together with Mattias Rahm and 4th in the 470 __NOTOC__ Year 470 ( CDLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Severus and Iordanes (or, less frequently, year 1223 ' ... event at the 2004 Summer Olympics together with Martin Andersson. References Swedish male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for Sweden 470 class sailors Royal Gothenburg Yacht Club sailors Sailors at the 2000 Summer Olympics – 470 Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – 470 1975 births Living people Europe class world champions World champions in sailing for Sweden 20th-century Swedish people {{Sweden-yachtracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
470 World Championships
The 470 World Championships have been held every year since 1970 and organised by the International 470 Class Association and recognized by the International Sailing Federation. When the Championship forms part of the ISAF Sailing World Championships the ISAF also organise the event. The 470 is a sailboat class used as equipment for the Olympic Sailing Competition. Editions Medallists Open Men and Mixed Men Women Mixed Junior Male and Mixed Junior Female Multiple medallists See also *World championships in sailing *World Sailing World Sailing (WS) is the world governing body for the sport of sailing recognized by the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). History The creation of the International Yacht Racing Union (IYRU) beg ... References 2013 official resultsat Worlds.470.org External linksClass Association Webpage [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is part of the South West Land Division of Western Australia, with most of the metropolitan area on the Swan Coastal Plain between the Indian Ocean and the Darling Scarp. The city has expanded outward from the original British settlements on the Swan River, upon which the city's central business district and port of Fremantle are situated. Perth is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people, where Aboriginal Australians have lived for at least 45,000 years. Captain James Stirling founded Perth in 1829 as the administrative centre of the Swan River Colony. It was named after the city of Perth in Scotland, due to the influence of Stirling's patron Sir George Murray, who had connections with the area. It gained city stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships
The 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships was held in Perth, Western Australia, this was the third edition of the ISAF Sailing World Championships. It is the world championships for all disciplines used at the upcoming Olympics. As it used to allocate 75% of the qualification quota for the 2012 Summer Olympics this event has added significance. Venues A number of different venues and courses was used for the different events: * The Harbour Course. Women's match racing events – billed as "largest match racing competition ever held" – will be held in the Inner Harbour. * The Centre Course, closest to the shore. Will host most medal races. * The Leighton Course, located off of Leighton Beach in North Fremantle. * The Parmelia Course, located west of the Centre Course, closest to Rottnest Island. * The Owen Course. The most southerly course, closest to Woodman Point. * The Success Course. Both the men's and women's Laser events will be held at the Fremantle Sailing Club in ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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