Joseph Morris (born August 17, 1989) is a

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who lives in the

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and attended

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, where he earned the New England College Sailor of the Year Award in 2012. He was named captain twice (2011, 2012) and was a four-time ICSA All-American skipper. Prior to Yale, he was a five-time national champion. He and teammate Thomas Barrows competed on behalf of the United States in the

2016 Rio Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro de ...

, participating in the men's two-person high-performance 49er class event. Morris and Barrows – who were also teammates at Yale – won the US Olympic Trials and qualified for Olympic selection from combined results of the Sailing World Cup in

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, Fla. and the 49er World Championships in

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Morris, Joseph 1989 births Living people American male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for the United States Sailors at the 2016 Summer Olympics – 49er Yale University alumni