Earle Wells
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| gold | Tokyo 1964 | Flying Dutchman |
Earle Leonard Wells (born October 27, 1933 in Auckland ) is a former New Zealand sailor .
successes
Earle Wells participated in the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo in part, where he met the Flying Dutchman started. At the side of Helmer Pedersen he won the competition before the British Tony Morgan and Keith Musto and the Americans William Bentsen and Harry Melges , so that Wells and Pedersen were Olympic champions . Wells sailed five times in the Sydney-Hobart regatta .
In 1972 he and his wife bought a furniture factory, which they ran until 1990. They then moved to Whakatane , where they ran an animal farm. In 1990 Wells and Pedersen were inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame .
Web links
- Earle Wells in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Earle Wells at the New Zealand Olympic Committee (English)
Olympic champion with the Flying Dutchman
1960: Bjørn Bergvall / Peder Lunde jr. | 1964: Helmer Pedersen / Earle Wells | 1968: Iain MacDonald-Smith / Rodney Pattison | 1972: Christopher Davies / Rodney Pattison | 1976: Eckart Diesch / Jörg Diesch | 1980: Alejandro Abascal / Miguel Noguer | 1984: William Carl Buchan / Jonathan McKee | 1988: Christian Grønborg / Jørgen Bojsen-Møller | 1992: Luis Doreste / Domingo Manrique
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| SURNAME | Wells, Earle |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wells, Earle Leonard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | New Zealand sailor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Auckland , New Zealand |