Harry Melges

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Harry Melges medal table
Harry Melges (1992)
Harry Melges (1992)

sailing

United StatesUnited States United States
Olympic rings Olympic games
bronze Tokyo 1964 Flying Dutchman
gold Munich 1972 Soling
Logo of the WS Sailing world championships
silver Chicago 1975 Soling
gold San Francisco 1978 star
gold Marstrand 1979 star
bronze Ponce 1980 Soling
Pan American Games logo Pan American Games
gold Winnipeg 1967 Flying Dutchman

Harry Clemens "Buddy" Melges junior (born January 26, 1930 in Elkhorn ) is a former American sailor .

successes

Harry Melges first took part in the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo in the Flying Dutchman boat class . Together with William Bentsen , he secured third place behind the Olympic champions from New Zealand, Helmer Pedersen and Earle Wells , as well as the British Tony Morgan and Keith Musto . With a total of 5158 points, they received the bronze medal. Three years later, Melges and Bentsen won the gold medal in the Flying Dutchman at the Pan American Games in Winnipeg . At the 1972 Games in Munich , the sailing regattas of which were held at the Schilksee Olympic Center in Kiel , he was the skipper of the US Soling- class boat , whose crew consisted of William Bentsen and William Allen . They won three of the six races and finished the other two races included in the ranking in positions two and three, finishing the regatta with 8.7 points by a clear margin as Olympic champions. The second-placed Swedes around Stig Wennerström got 31.7 points. At world championships he first won the silver medal in Chicago in Soling in 1975 , before winning the title in the Starboot in both 1978 in San Francisco and in 1979 in Marstrand . In 1980 he won bronze in Ponce im Soling. He won titles in North American championships several times and also won the America's Cup in 1992 .

Melges graduated from the University of Wisconsin . He also worked as a boat builder and developed, among other things, the Melges 24 boat class named after him . In 2001 Melges was inducted into the America's Cup Hall of Fame . In 2011 he was inducted into the National Sailing Hall of Fame and in 2015 into the Hall of Fame of the world association .

Web links

Commons : Harry Melges  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Harry "Buddy" Melges, Jr. In: herreshoff.org. Herreshoff Marine Museum, accessed April 8, 2020 .
  2. ^ Harry "Buddy" C. Melges. In: nshof.org. National Sailing Hall of Fame, accessed April 8, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Melges, Harry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Melges, Harry Clemens junior (full name); Melges, buddy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sailor
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Elkhorn , United States