David Miller, who is a member of the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club , has participated in three Olympic Games . He made his Olympic debut in Tokyo in 1964 in the Star boat class , in which he took seventh place as the skipper of the Glisten . Four years later he was a crew member on the Canadian Dragon- class boat in Mexico City . At the regatta held in Acapulco he just missed a medal win under skipper Steve Tupper in fourth. In the boat class Soling he started again as a skipper at the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 . Together with his crew members Paul Côté and John Ekels , he won the bronze medal when they took third place in the regatta taking place at the Schilksee Olympic Center in Kiel , thanks to 47.1 points behind the American boat led by Harry Melges and the Swedish boat led by Stig Wennerström ended. A year later they won the North American Championships together, after which Miller ended his career. In 1989, like Côté and Ekels, he was inducted into the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame .
In 1974, Miller founded North Sails' first Canadian subsidiary and ran its Canadian business until he retired in 2010. Ross MacDonald was his successor .
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