Dennis Conner
Dennis Conner | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname: | Mister America's Cup | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality: | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Birthday: | September 16, 1942 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth: | San Diego , California , USA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Size: | 186 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight: | 89 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Society: | San Diego Yacht Club , United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Boat classes: | Tempest , Etchells , Starboot | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dennis Walter Conner (born September 16, 1942 in San Diego , California ) is an American professional sailor . Because of his many successes in the America's Cup (AC), he is also called Mister America's Cup .
From 1974 to 2003 Dennis Conner competed in every AC as a skipper . From 1987 he started with his own boats under the name Stars & Stripes , after the American national flag Stars and Stripes . He is the only helmsman who lost the America's Cup (1983) and regained it (1987). Conner is also the only skipper to lose the cup twice (1983 and 1995). He won a total of 17 AC races and was four times the winner (1974, 1980, 1987, 1988).
Dennis Conner lives in San Diego, California.
successes
- 1974 America's Cup winner (starting helmsman and tactician on the Courageous )
- 1976 Olympic Games , Montreal , Tempest , bronze medal
- 1977 Kieler Woche - Winner, Star (five times 1st place in a field of 89 participants = world record)
- 1980 America's Cup winner ( Freedom )
- 1987 America's Cup winner ( Stars & Stripes '87 )
- 1988 America's Cup winner ( Stars & Stripes '88 )
- 1994 Etchell's world champion
- 1995 Citizen Cup winner
- 1996 New Zealand Etchells National Championship winner
- 1997 New Zealand Etchells National Championship winner
- 2000 New Zealand Etchells National Championship winner
- 2000 New Zealand National Championships in the Ross 780 class winner
- 2001 North American Etchells Championships winner
Winner in various world championships with sailing yachts from 11 to 80 feet in length.
Honors
- three times United States Yachtsman of the Year (US Sailor of the Year)
- seven times San Diego Yachtsman of the Year
- Commodore of the San Diego Yacht Club
- 1993: one of the first appointed members of the America's Cup Hall of Fame
Web links
- Dennis Conner in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Private website: Dennis Conner , (English)
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SURNAME | Conner, Dennis |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Conner, Dennis Walter (full name); Mister America's Cup (nickname) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American sailor |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1942 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | San Diego , California |