Paul Davis (sailor)

Paul Davis
Nationality:	Canada Norway
Birthday:	February 10, 1958
Place of birth:	Toronto
Size:	193 cm
Weight:	105 kg
Society:	Asker rope forening Royal Canadian Yacht Club Kingston Yacht Club
Boat classes:	Soling
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × World championships 4 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze Sydney 2000 Soling  Sailing world championships gold Marblehead 2002 Soling gold Toronto 2009 Soling gold Chiemsee 2011 Soling gold Milwaukee 2012 Soling silver Balaton 2013 Soling

Paul Martin Davis (born February 10, 1958 in Toronto ) is a Canadian - Norwegian sailor .

successes

Paul Davis took part in two Olympic Games for Norway in the boat class Soling . Under skipper Herman Horn Johannessen , he was in Atlanta in 1996 , alongside Espen Stokkeland, on the Norwegian boat that finished the regatta in ninth place. Davis, Stokkeland and Johannessen also formed the crew of the Norwegian participating boat at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney . They finished the preliminary round in the Fleet Race in first place, so that they were directly qualified for the quarter-finals, which took place in the Match Race . In fourth they just reached the semi-finals, in which they were defeated by the Danish boat led by Jesper Bank with 1: 3. In the duel for the bronze medal, they finally prevailed 3-1 against the Netherlands.

Davis was world champion four times in Soling . Now starting under the Canadian flag, he won the title in Marblehead in 2002 , in Toronto in 2009, in 2011 on Lake Chiemsee and in 2012 in Milwaukee . In 2013 he won the silver medal at Lake Balaton .

Web links

• Paul Davis in the World Sailing database , NOR profile (English)
• Paul Davis in the World Sailing database, CAN profile (English)
• Paul Davis in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )