Sune Evert Carlsson (21 December 1931 – 2 July 2024) was a Swedish Olympic sailor in the

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class and boatbuilder. He competed in the

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, where he finished 10th in the Star class together with Per-Olof Carlsson and won a silver medal at the 1977 Star World Championships together with Leif Carlsson.

Biography

Carlsson was born in

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on 21 December 1931. When he grew up, he sailed with model boats on Bällstaån and started to build his own boats at the age of 13. In 1950, he won his first of several Star Swedish Championships, 1954 he won it as helmsman, and in 1956 he qualified for the Star event at the 1956 Summer Olympics together with Olle Carlsson, but was rejected by the

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due to their young age. He was selected for the Star event at the 1960 Summer Olympics, where he finished 10th together with Per-Olof Carlsson. In the 1960s, Carlsson took over the boat yard Moranäsvarvet in

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, and

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. In 1977, Carlsson, together with Leif Carlsson won the silver medal at the 1977 Star World Championships in Kiel. Carlsson and Carlsson were the only contenders to future winners Dennis Conner and Ron Anderson before the last race, but Conner and Anderson won the last race while the Carlssons finished 21st. In 2015, at the age of 84, he competed in the Star Swedish Championship. In 2017, Carlsson was inducted to the Swedish Sailing Hall of Fame as its 9th inductee. He died on 2 July 2024, at the age of 92.

References

1931 births 2024 deaths Swedish male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for Sweden Sailors at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Star Sailors (sport) from Stockholm {{Sweden-yachtracing-bio-stub