Esko Rechardt
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Esko Tapani Rechardt (born May 9, 1958 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish sailor and Olympic champion .
At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow he won the gold medal as an outsider in the boat class Finn-Dinghy and became the first Finnish Olympic champion in sailing and so far the only Finnish medalist in his discipline.
Web links
- Esko Rechardt in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ classefinn.it: History of the Finn in the Olympic Game ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Olympic champion with the Finn dinghy
1952: Paul Elvstrøm | 1956: Paul Elvstrøm | 1960: Paul Elvstrøm | 1964: Willi Kuhweide | 1968: Valentin Mankin | 1972: Serge Maury | 1976: Jochen Schümann | 1980: Esko Rechardt | 1984: Russell Coutts | 1988: José Luis Doreste | 1992: José van der Ploeg | 1996: Mateusz Kusznierewicz | 2000: Iain Percy | 2004: Ben Ainslie | 2008: Ben Ainslie | 2012: Ben Ainslie | 2016: Giles Scott
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| SURNAME | Rechardt, Esko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rechardt, Esko Tapani (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish sailor and Olympic champion |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Helsinki |