Dennis Conner

Dennis Conner
Dennis Conner with America's Cup, 1987
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
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × World championships 4 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze Montreal 1976 Tempest  Sailing world championships gold Puget Sound 1971 Star boat gold Kiel 1977 Star boat silver San Francisco 1978 Star boat gold San Francisco 1991 Etchells gold Balboa 1994 Etchells

Dennis Conner, 2010

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

Commons : Dennis Conner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Dennis Conner in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Private website: Dennis Conner , (English)