Alexander Hagen

Alexander Hagen (born January 1, 1955 in Lübeck ) is a German sailor. He sailed in by 2012 Olympic Star boat class.

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Hagen celebrated its greatest successes in the 1980s. With Vincent Hoesch he became world champion in 1981 and 1997 and won seven Continental championships as well as the European title in 1975 in the OK dinghy class. He holds various German championship titles in Laser , Match Race and Star .

In 1981 Hagen / Hoesch won the world championship in Marblehead . This was the first victory after Pim von Huetschler, who took the title in the 1940s. By using a laser-like downwind technique, they fell behind due to their lack of weight against the opponents sailing high upwind. After the turning mark, they could thanks to the space- and downwind courses take the lead and defend. These dynamic propulsion techniques, which have been adopted from the Laser and Finn classes, were banned in the mid-1980s. They were reintroduced 30 years later as they made sailing more interesting for both athletes and the media. In the Star class, Hagen is the youngest world champion of all time at the age of 26. He has shared this “title” with the Brazilian Jorge Zarif since 2019.

16 years later, in 1997, Hagen became world champion for the second time, this time with Marcelo Ferreira from Brazil, and also took part in the Olympic Games (2004 Athens ) for the second time, after 1988 .

Hagen also advocated more health and fairness in the star boat and advocated limiting the team weight. He invented a mathematical formula that assigns each skipper the corresponding maximum crew weight, which found its way into the class rules.

Web links

• Alexander Hagen in the Munzinger Archive , accessed on February 4, 2019 ( beginning of article freely available)
• The Old Man and the Sea Article in Die Welt, July 9, 2001

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Yacht Magazin: "Approximately twelve times". Retrieved February 4, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Alexander Hagen - Munzinger biography. Retrieved February 4, 2019 .