Robert Bentley Haines, Jr. (born March 27, 1954) is an American
sailor
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The profession of the s ...
and
Olympic
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Sports
Competitions
* Olympic Games, international multi-sport event held since 1896
** Summer Olympic Games
** Winter Olympic Games
* Ancient Olympic Games, ancient multi-sport event held in Olympia, Greece b ...
champion. Born in
San Diego, California
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, he has won seven world championships in 4 different class of boats. He was associate producer and sailing team manager for the Walt Disney film
"Morning Light". He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for being a member of the 1980 US Olympic Sailing Team, which did not compete in the Soviet Union (Estonia) due to the boycott of the Olympic Games that year by President
Jimmy Carter
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.
Haines, skipper of the Haines-
Trevelyan-
Davis
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Places Antarctica
* Mount Davis (Antarctica)
* Davis Island (Palmer Archipelago)
* Davis Valley, Queen Elizabeth Land
Canada
* Davis, Saskatchewan, an unincorporated community
* Davis Strait, between Nunavut and Gre ...
team, received a gold medal in the ''
Soling
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class'' at the
1984 Summer Olympics
The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the secon ...
in
Los Angeles
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.
Haines was inducted into the San Diego Sports Hall of Fame in 2018.
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1954 births
Living people
Congressional Gold Medal recipients
American male sailors (sport)
Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Soling class sailors
Olympic gold medalists for the United States in sailing
Sailors at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Soling
Sportspeople from San Diego
Soling class world champions
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