Ole Berntsen

Ole Berntsen
Ole Berntsen (1964)
Nationality:	Denmark
Birthday:	January 22, 1915
Place of birth:	Hellerup
Date of death:	May 26, 1996
Place of death:	Gentofte Commune
Society:	Hellerup Sejlklub
Boat classes:	Dragons
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 1 × 1 × World championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze London 1948 Dragons silver Melbourne 1956 Dragons gold Tokyo 1964 Dragons  Sailing world championships gold Sandhamn 1956 Dragons

Ole Valdemar Henrik Berntsen (born January 22, 1915 in Hellerup , † May 26, 1996 in Gentofte Kommune ) was a Danish sailor .

successes

Ole Berntsen, who sailed for the Hellerup Sejlklub , took part in four Olympic Games in the kite boat class . When he made his Olympic debut in London in 1948 , he was a crew member alongside Klaus Baess on the Danish boat Snap , skippered by his brother William Berntsen . In a total of seven races, the Snap always placed among the best five boats and finished the regatta taking place in Torquay in third place with 4223 total points, giving Baess and the Berntsen brothers the bronze medal behind the Pan by Thor Thorvaldsen from Norway and the Slaghoken received from Folke Bohlin from Sweden. Four years later , Berntsen was skipper himself, while his brother William completed the crew together with Aage Birch . With the yacht Snude they only came in fifth despite winning the third race. The subsequent games in Melbourne were much more successful for Berntsen when he won the silver medal as skipper of Tip with his crew members Cyril Andresen and Christian von Bülow . Although they scored 5723 points like the Slaghöken II from Sweden, led by Folke Bohlin , the Swedes became Olympic champions due to the larger number of races they had won . Third place went to the British boat led by Graham Mann . Berntsen's fourth Olympic participation took place on the occasion of the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo . With the White Lady he became Olympic champion himself this time as skipper: with 5854 points, he and Ole Poulsen and Christian von Bülow narrowly prevailed against the German boat Mutafo, led by Peter Ahrendt , with 5826 points.

Henning Wind , Ole Berntsen, Christian von Bülow, Ole Poulsen, 1964 (from left)

In 1965 Ole Berntsen also became world champion in kites in Sandhamn . He also won the Dragon Gold Cup five times : in 1949, 1954, 1957, 1960 and 1962.

Web links

Commons : Ole Berntsen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Ole Berntsen in the database of World Sailing (English)
• Ole Berntsen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )