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Gérard Battaglia
Gérard Battaglia (26 March 1937 – 2 March 2015) was a former sailor who represented Monaco at two Olympic Games in Sailing (sport), sailing. Career Alongside Jean-Pierre Crovetto and Jules Soccal Battaglia finished 23rd in the Dragon (keelboat), Dragon class at the Sailing_at_the_1960_Summer_Olympics_–_Dragon, 1960 Olympic Games. He won a bronze medal with Crovetto at the 1963 Mediterranean Games. In the Sailing_at_the_1976_Summer_Olympics_–_Soling, 1976 Olympic Games he finished 23rd in the soling class with Borro and Claude Rossi. Personal life His son Philippe Battaglia, Philippe and nephew René Battaglia both competed for Monaco in the Olympics. He later became president of the Yacht Club de Monaco, Monegasque Sailing Federation and an Officer of the Order of Saint-Charles. References 1937 births 2015 deaths Olympic sailors for Monaco Sailors at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Dragon Sailors at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Soling Competitors at the 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sailing (sport)
The sport of sailing involves a variety of competitive sailing formats that are sanctioned through various sailing federations and yacht clubs. Racing disciplines include matches within a fleet of sailing craft, between a pair thereof or among teams. Additionally, there are specialized competitions that include setting speed records. Racing formats include both closed courses and point-to-point contests; they may be in sheltered waters, coast-wise or on the open ocean. Most competitions are held within defined classes or ratings that either entail one type of sailing craft to ensure a contest primarily of skill or rating the sailing craft to create classifications or Handicapping, handicaps. On the water, a sailing competition among multiple vessels is called a regatta. A Regatta consists of multiple individual races. The boat crew that performs best in over the series of races is the overall winner. There is a broad variety of kinds of races and sailboats used for racing from Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yacht Club De Monaco
The Fédération Monégasque de Voile is the national governing body for the sport of sailing in Monaco, recognised by the International Sailing Federation. This organisation is in effect part of the Yacht Club de Monaco, which is the only Sailing Club in the country. The new yacht club building for the Yacht Club de Monaco was designed by Foster and Partners and completed in 2014. Famous Sailors See :Monegasque sailors Olympic sailing See :Olympic sailors for Monaco Offshore sailing See :Monegasque yacht racers Yacht clubs See :Yacht clubs in Monaco References External links * * Monaco Sailing Sailing Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the ''water'' (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, Windsurfing, windsurfer, or Kitesurfing, kitesurfer), on ''ice'' (iceboat) or on ''land'' (Land sa ... Yacht clubs in Monaco 1985 establishments in Monaco {{Sailing-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mediterranean Games Bronze Medalists For Monaco
The Mediterranean Sea ( ) is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the east by the Levant in West Asia, on the north by Anatolia in West Asia and Southern Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border. The Mediterranean Sea covers an area of about , representing 0.7% of the global ocean surface, but its connection to the Atlantic via the Strait of Gibraltar—the narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates the Iberian Peninsula in Europe from Morocco in Africa—is only wide. Geological evidence indicates that around 5.9 million years ago, the Mediterranean was cut off from the Atlantic and was partly or completely desiccation, desiccated over a period of some 600,000 years during the Messinian salinity crisis before being refilled by the Zanclean flood about 5.3 million years ago. The sea was an important ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
