Geert Alle Bakker (15 January 1921 in

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– 7 August 1993 in

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) was a

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from the

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, who represented his country at the

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, Canada. With crew

Pieter Keijzer Pieter Keijzer (born 10 April 1949 in Amsterdam) is a sailor from the Netherlands, who represented his country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Kingston, Canada. With helmsman Geert Bakker and fellow crew member Harald de Vlaming Keijzer took the ...

and

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Bakker took the 5th place in the

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. Since in

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The Netherlands did

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the

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Olympic Games Bakker again in the Soling represented his National Olympic Committee under the Dutch

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flag. This time with crew Dick Coster and his son Steven Bakker They took again 5th place. From 1976 till 1979 Geert was president of the

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. After a brain stroke in 1983 he stayed close involved with Soling Sailing however he specialized in judging.

Controversy

Several countries did

the

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, others like

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did not go since they found the competition devaluated. As result only half of the expected fleet was present during the Olympic regattas. It was the effort of Bakker and

Ben Staartjes Bernard "Ben" Staartjes (9 December 1928, Amsterdam – 17 March 2014, Kapellen) Bernard Staartj ...

that the

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went to Tallinn.

Sources

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