Jan Roland Andersson (born 14 December 1950 in

Uppsala Uppsala (, or all ending in , ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the county seat of Uppsala County and the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inha ...

) is a Swedish former Olympic sailor in the

Soling The Soling is an open keelboat that holds the World Sailing "International class" status. The class was used from the 1972 Olympics (Kiel) until the 2000 Olympics (Sydney) as " Open Three Person Keelboat". Besides the Olympic career of the Soli ...

class. He finished 8th in the Soling class the

1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...

together with Bertil Larsson and

Göran Andersson Göran Andersson (born 14 February 1956) is a sailor from Sweden, who represented his country at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Tallinn, as crew member in the Soling The Soling is an open keelboat that holds the World Sailing "International cla ...

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