Anders Nyholm
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Anders Nyholm-Pedersen |
| Nationality |  Denmark |
| Born | 30 March 1982 Roskilde, Denmark |
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) |
| Sailing career | |
| Class | Dinghy |
| Club | Vallensbæk Sejlklub |
Anders Nyholm-Pedersen (born 30 March 1982) is a Danish former sailor, who specialized in the Laser class.[1] He bagged won a silver medal in the Laser Radial class at the 2000 ISAF Youth World Championships in Çeşme, Turkey and later represented his native country Denmark in two editions of the Olympic Games (2004 and 2008).[2][3]
Nyholm made his Olympic debut, as a 22-year-old, in Athens 2004, sailing in the Laser class.[4] There, he accumulated a net grade of 203 points to end the eleven-race series with a twenty-second overall, a placement higher than Chile's Matías del Solar with respect to the opening leg.[5]
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Nyholm qualified for his second Danish team in the Laser class. Building up his Olympic selection, he finished twenty-third out of 51 sailors advancing to the golden fleet to secure one of the twenty-nine quota places offered at the 2007 ISAF Worlds in Cascais, Portugal.[3][6] Nyholm could not improve his feat from the previous Games with mediocre marks recorded after ten races, placing in the twenty-third spot with 164 net points.[7]
References[edit]
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Anders Nyholm". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- ^ "Dansker vandt ungdomsklasse" [Dane won medal for the Youth] (in Danish). Jyllands-Posten. 13 July 2000. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- ^ a b "Danmarks første OL-billet i hus" [Denmark's first Olympic ticket in the house] (in Danish). Ekstrabladet. 7 July 2007. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- ^ "Dansk laserjolle til OL" [Dane qualifies for the Olympics in Laser sailing] (in Danish). Berlingske. 19 May 2004. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- ^ "Sailing: Mixed Laser Class". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- ^ Lecesiter, Hugh (8 July 2007). "Reports from the Laser and Laser Radial classes in Cascais: Laser Standard Gold Fleet". World Sailing. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- ^ "Beijing 2008: Men's Laser Class". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 28 July 2012. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
External links[edit]
- Anders Nyholm at World Sailing
- Anders Nyholm at Olympics.com
- Anders Nyholm at Olympedia
- Anders Nyholm at NBC 2008 Olympics website at the Wayback Machine (archived 20 July 2012)
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