Paul Côté

Paul Côté

Nationality:

Canada

Birthday:

Place of birth:

Date of death:

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Size:

190 cm

Weight:

89 kg

Society:

Royal Vancouver Yacht Club

Boat classes:

Soling

Medal table

Olympic games

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Olympic games
bronze	Munich 1972	Soling

Paul Thomas Côté II (born January 28, 1944 in Vancouver , † July 19, 2013 there ) was a Canadian peace activist , entrepreneur and sailor .

Career

He attended Catholic Vancouver College and then attended the University of British Columbia , where he earned a law degree. During his student days he was already involved in the peace movement. To prevent a series of atomic bomb tests , he founded the Don't Make a Wave Committee in Vancouver in the early 1970s with other opponents of nuclear power , including Irving Stowe and Jim Bohlen . From this, Greenpeace emerged shortly afterwards , of which Côté was one of the founders. 1973 Côté left his job at Greenpeace and went into business. Among other things, he founded the Genstar Development Company and the Newland Group .

Sailing successes

Paul Côté, who was a member of the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club , took part in the Soling boat class at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich . Together with John Ekels he was a crew member of skipper David Miller and won the bronze medal with them when they won the regatta taking place in the Schilksee Olympic Center in Kiel thanks to 47.1 points behind the American boat led by Harry Melges and the Swedish boat led by Stig Wennerström finished in third place. A year later they won the North American championships together before the crew split up after Miller's career ended. In 1989, like Miller and Ekels, he was inducted into the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame .

family

Côté was married twice and had three children and three grandchildren at the time of his death. In addition, he had seven siblings.

Web links

Obituary of Paul Côté (English)
Obituary for Paul Côté at The Globe and Mail (English)
Profile of Paul Côté at Greenpeace
Paul Côté in the database of World Sailing (English)
Paul Côté in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

personal data
SURNAME	Côté, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Côté, Paul Thomas II (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian environmental activist and sailor
DATE OF BIRTH	January 28, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vancouver , Canada
DATE OF DEATH	19th July 2013
Place of death	Vancouver , Canada