Hans Fogh

Hans Fogh
Hans Fogh, 1964
Nationality:	Denmark Canada from 1975
Birthday:	March 8, 1938
Place of birth:	Rødovre , Denmark
Date of death:	March 14, 2014
Place of death:	Toronto , Ontario Canada
Size:	171 cm
Weight:	73 kg
Society:	Hellerup Sejlklub (HS) Denmark , Etobicoke Yacht Club (EYC) Canada
Boat classes:	Flying Dutchman , Soling , Finn dinghy
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 1 × World championships 4 × 2 × 2 × European championships 5 × 1 × 1 × Pan American Games 0 × 1 × 0 × North American Championships 4 × 7 × 1 ×
Olympic games silver Rome / Naples 1960 Flying Dutchman bronze Los Angeles 1984 Soling World championships gold St. Petersburg (Florida) 1962 Flying Dutchman gold Rochester 1973 Flying Dutchman gold Sydney 1974 Soling gold Annapolis 2006 Soling silver Travemünde 1961 Finn dinghy silver Milwaukee 2012 Soling bronze Weymouth 1974 Flying Dutchman bronze Rio de Janeiro 1978 Soling European championships gold Sandhamn 1960 Flying Dutchman gold Hyères 1976 Flying Dutchman gold Kiel 1978 Soling gold Dragør 1982 Soling gold Medemblik 1983 Soling silver Whitstable 1964 Flying Dutchman bronze Karlshamn 1987 Soling  Pan American Games silver Indianapolis 1978 Soling North American Championships gold Kingston (Ontario) 1984 Soling gold Toronto 2008 Soling gold Loyalist Township 2010 Soling gold Plattsburgh 2013 Soling silver Rochester 1993 Soling silver Seawanhaka 1994 Soling silver Rochester 1998 Soling silver Toronto 1999 Soling silver Toronto 2005 Soling silver Wilmette 2006 Soling silver Plattsburgh 2009 Soling bronze Kingston, Ontario 2011 Soling

Hans Marius Fogh (born March 8, 1938 in Rødovre , Denmark ; † March 14, 2014 in Toronto , Ontario , Canada ) was one of the most successful regatta sailors and sailmakers with many national and international championships in various boat classes. He began his sailing career as a Danish sailor and continued it as a Canadian sailor from 1975. Hans Fogh won two Olympic medals in a total of six Olympic participations.

Olympic career

Team Denmark

• In 1960 Hans Fogh started for the first time for his native Denmark at the Olympic Summer Games in Naples as a helmsman in the Flying Dutchman boat class . With his bowman Ole Gunnar Petersen he won the silver medal in his Skum dinghy .

• In 1964 at the next Olympic Games in Enoshima he sailed again with Ole Gunnar Petersen as a crew. With their boat Miss Denmark 1964 they reached the thankless fourth place and narrowly missed the bronze medal.

• In 1968, Hans Fogh started again with his crew Niels Jensen in the Flying Dutchman boat class at the Olympic Games in Acapulco . But they only reached 16th place.

• In 1972 Fogh represented Denmark for the last time at the Olympic Games in Kiel in the Flying Dutchman boat class and achieved 7th place as a crew with his bow crew Ulrik Brock .

Team Canada

• In 1969 Hans Fogh emigrated to Canada and after his naturalization in 1975 he represented his new home at the 1976 Olympic Games in Kingston (Ontario) . With his bowman Evert Bastet , he just missed the bronze medal and reached fourth place .

• In 1984 he took part for the last time at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles (venue: Long Beach (California) ). He started in the Soling boat class and won the bronze medal as a helmsman together with his team members Stephen Calder and John Kerr .

Hans Fogh, Elvstrøm sailmakers , 1964

Life

Born in 1938 in Rødovre, a suburb of Copenhagen, Hans Fogh grew up in a gardening family and was expected to take over his father's horticultural business.

With a knack for spatial geometry, he could very well imagine a physical object like a sail and so he decided to make sailmaking. Paul Elvstrøm brought him into his company and Fogh took a job at Elvstrøm sailmakers to learn the finer points of sailmaking. With the support and support of his long-time Canadian friend and Olympic sailor Paul Henderson , he emigrated to Canada in 1969 and founded a sailmaker's workshop here under the name Elvstrøm Canada . Henderson knew full well that Canada needed an experienced sailmaker back then. He later produced sails in his new hometown of Toronto under the Fogh Sails and North Sails brands and opened a Fogh Marine store . In 1975 he became a Canadian citizen. Hans Fogh was involved in the development of the standards for the sail of the boat class Laser and the derived boat class Laser Radial as well as the keelboat Laser 28 , designed by Bruce Farr .

Fogh was married to his wife Kirsten for 49 years and had two sons (Morten and Thomas) and five grandchildren. Hans Fogh died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease on March 14, 2014 at the age of 76 in Toronto.

Sailing career

• Hans Fogh started sailing at the age of 17 while working in his father's nursery. His first international title was winning the European Flying Dutchman Championship in 1960.

• He won numerous world and European championships as well as national championships. He participated in six Olympic Games (1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1984) and won a silver medal in Soling during the Pan American Games in 1987.

• In 1978 he led at the helm the yacht Evergreen for Don Green to victory in the Canada's Cup , a sailing competition between Canada and USA on the Great Lakes (Engl. Great Lakes) in North America.

• In 1979 he sailed the Evergreen yacht for Don Green in the Canadian team in the Admiral's Cup .

• In 1987 he sailed as the helmsman on the America's Cup yacht Canada II during the Louis Vuitton Cup .

Honors

• 1985 Member of the Hall of Fame of Canadian Sports (English: Canada's Sports Hall of Fame)

• 1986 member of the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame

• 1996 member of the Etobicoke Sports Halls of Fame

Web links

Commons : Hans Fogh  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Olympia Team Canda , (English)
• Sports-Reference / Olympic Sports: Hans Fogh , (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Fogh. Sports-Reference / Olympic Sports, accessed March 2, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Hans Fogh. Olympic Team Canada, accessed March 5, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Reliving the ill-fated Fastnet. (No longer available online.) The Hamilton Spectator, May 12, 2007, archived from the original on November 24, 2018 ; accessed on March 5, 2020 (English). 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.  
4. ↑ Reliving the ill-fated Fastnet, Crewphoto # 2. (No longer available online.) The Hamilton Spectator, May 12, 2007, archived from the original on November 24, 2018 ; accessed on March 5, 2020 (English). 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.