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Pelle Helmer Petterson (born 31 July 1932) is a 
Petterson has three children.
There is a line of sailing clothing and sports wear bearing the name Petterson, under the Brand Name ''Pelle P.'' which are designed by his daughter, Cecilia. His other daughter, Ulrika "Icka", lives in the U.S. and is married to
pellepetterson.se
{{DEFAULTSORT:Petterson, Pelle 1932 births Living people Swedish male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors of Sweden Sailors at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Star Sailors at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Dragon Sailors at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Flying Dutchman Sailors at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Star Olympic silver medalists for Sweden Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden Swedish automobile designers America's Cup yacht designers Swedish yacht designers Olympic medalists in sailing Star class world champions 6 Metre class sailors Volvo Ocean Race sailors Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics 1980 America's Cup sailors 1977 America's Cup sailors World champions in sailing for Sweden Swedish people of Norwegian descent Sportspeople from Stockholm
Swedish
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sailor
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and yacht designer. He is the son of Helmer Petterson and Norwegian-born Borgny Petterson (born Holm), and studied design at the leading Pratt Institute in New York from 1955 through 1957. He is probably best known for designing the Maxi brand of sailing boats, which are still among the most common sailing boats in Swedish waters. He also designed Volvo
The Volvo Group ( sv, Volvokoncernen; legally Aktiebolaget Volvo, shortened to AB Volvo, stylized as VOLVO) is a Swedish multinational manufacturing corporation headquartered in Gothenburg. While its core activity is the production, distributio ...
's successful sports car, the P1800, while he was a student of Pietro Frua
Pietro Frua (2 May 1913 - 28 June 1983) was one of the leading Italian coachbuilders and car designers during the 1950s and 1960s.
Early years
Frua was born in Turin, the centre of coachbuilding in northern Italy. He was the fourth son of Angela, ...
.
Petterson has three children.
There is a line of sailing clothing and sports wear bearing the name Petterson, under the Brand Name ''Pelle P.'' which are designed by his daughter, Cecilia. His other daughter, Ulrika "Icka", lives in the U.S. and is married to Paul Cayard
Paul Pierre Cayard (born May 19, 1959) is an American yachtsman and professional sailor. He has competed at multiple world championship level sailing events, including the America's Cup, the Whitbread Round the World Race, the Volvo Ocean Rac ...
, an American yachtsman and professional sailor.
Olympic medals and other yacht racing awards
He won Olympic medals (bronze and silver) for Starboat racing in 1964 and 1972. He won the World Championship title in the Star class at the 1969 Worlds in San Diego, USA. He also won World Cup medals in the Soling Class and participated in the America's Cup several times, skippering the Swedish America's Cup Challenges in 1977 and 1980.Awards
14 May 2004 he received the Swedish Business Award for Outstanding Achievements of the first grade from the West Swedish Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Amongst previous recipients areArvid Carlsson
Arvid Carlsson (25 January 1923 – 29 June 2018) was a Swedish neuropharmacologist who is best known for his work with the neurotransmitter dopamine and its effects in Parkinson's disease. For his work on dopamine, Carlsson was awarded the Nobe ...
Nobel laureate, Ingvar Kamprad
Feodor Ingvar Kamprad (; 30 March 1926 – 27 January 2018) was a Swedish billionaire best known for founding IKEA, a multinational retail company specialising in furniture. He lived in Switzerland from 1976 to 2014.
Early life and family
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founder of Ikea and Pehr G. Gyllenhammar former CEO of Volvo.
19 November 2004 he received a prestigious award (''KTH's Stora Pris'') from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
8 June 2010 he received from H.M the King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
Carl XVI Gustaf (Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus; born 30 April 1946) is King of Sweden. He ascended the throne on the death of his grandfather, Gustaf VI Adolf, on 15 September 1973.
He is the youngest child and only son of Prince Gustaf Adolf, D ...
the King's Medal (12th size bright-blue ribbon) for outstanding contributions as a yachtsman and boat designer.
Achievements
See also
* Maxi 77 * Monark 540 * Monark 606References
External links
pellepetterson.se
{{DEFAULTSORT:Petterson, Pelle 1932 births Living people Swedish male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors of Sweden Sailors at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Star Sailors at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Dragon Sailors at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Flying Dutchman Sailors at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Star Olympic silver medalists for Sweden Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden Swedish automobile designers America's Cup yacht designers Swedish yacht designers Olympic medalists in sailing Star class world champions 6 Metre class sailors Volvo Ocean Race sailors Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics 1980 America's Cup sailors 1977 America's Cup sailors World champions in sailing for Sweden Swedish people of Norwegian descent Sportspeople from Stockholm