Paul Elvstrøm

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Paul Bert Elvstrøm sailing

Paul Elvstrøm
Paul Elvstrøm, 1972

Nationality: DenmarkDenmark Denmark
Birthday: February 25, 1928
Place of birth: Hellerup , DenmarkDenmarkDenmark 
Date of death: December 7, 2016
Place of death: Hellerup
Size: 1.82 cm
Weight: 85 kg
Society: Hellerup Sejlklub (HS)
Boat classes: Snipe dinghy , Finn dinghy , Starboot , Soling ,
Tornado , 505 , Firefly , Flying Dutchman
Medal table
Olympic games 4 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 13 × gold 2 × silver 2 × bronze
Olympic rings Olympic games
gold London / Torquay 1948 Firefly
gold Helsinki 1952 Finn dinghy
gold Melbourne 1956 Finn dinghy
gold Rome / Naples 1960 Finn dinghy
World championships
gold La Baule 1957 505
gold La Baule 1958 505
gold Zeebrugge 1958 Finn dinghy
gold Hellerup 1959 Finn dinghy
gold Porto Alegre 1959 Snipe dinghy
gold St. Petersburg 1962 Flying Dutchman
gold Copenhagen 1966 5.5 meters
gold Kiel 1966 Star boat
gold Copenhagen 1967 Star boat
gold Copenhagen 1969 Soling
gold WM 1971 semitone truck Half-ton
gold Sydney 1974 Soling
gold World Cup Halftone Truck 1981 Half-ton
silver Burnham 1956 Finn dinghy
silver San Diego 1969 Star boat
bronze New York 1971 Soling
bronze Travemünde 1985 tornado
Paul Elvstrøm (Olympic Games 1960, Finn Dinghi)
Paul Elvstrøm (Olympic Games 1960, Finn Dinghi), hanging technology
Award ceremony Olympic Games 1952, Finn-Dinghi: Silver: Charles Currey , Gold: Paul Elvstrøm, Bronze: Rickard Sarby

Paul Bert Elvstrøm (born February 25, 1928 in Hellerup ; † December 7, 2016 there ) was a Danish sailor and the most successful regatta sailor to date , measured by world championship titles and Olympic medals.

Greatest successes

Paul Elvstrøm took part in the Olympic Games eight times from 1948 to 1988 , making him one of the athletes with the most Olympic participations to this day . In the first four participations he won the gold medal four times in a discipline, which has only happened four times in history (most recently Carl Lewis in the long jump 1984-1996). At the 1968 Olympic Games off Acapulco , he narrowly missed a medal in the Star Boat and also in 1984 off Los Angeles when he competed in the Olympic catamaran Tornado with his youngest daughter Trine (4th place). He ended his regatta career after the Olympic Games of 1988 , in which he took part in the tornado with his daughter Trine (15th place).

Olympic record

Elvstrøm achieved the following results at the Olympic Games:

  • 1948: London ( Torquay ), boat class : Firefly , gold medal
  • 1952: Helsinki , boat class: Finn-Dinghy , gold medal (age: 20)
  • 1956: Melbourne , boat class: Finn-Dinghy, gold medal (age: 24)
  • 1960: Rome , boat class: Finn dinghy, gold medal (age: 32)
  • 1968: Mexico , boat class: Star, 4th place (age: 40)
  • 1972: Munich , boat class: Soling, 13th place (age: 44)
  • 1984: Los Angeles , boat class: Tornado, 4th place (Age: 56)
  • 1988: Seoul , boat class: Tornado, 15th place (age: 60)

World Champion

Paul Elvstrøm has won a total of 13 world titles in eight different boat classes, a record that has never been achieved before.

Honors

  • 1956 Golden Merit Medal of the Royal Danish Yacht Club (KDY) in Copenhagen (Danish: KDY's Fortjenstmedalje i Guld)
  • January 11. 1985 Paul Elvstrøm is a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog appointed
  • Award of the gold star of the Dannebrog Order by the Danish royal family. An award that no other Danish athlete has received to this day.
  • 1982 Dansk Sejlunions Ærestegn (German: Badge of Honor of the Danish Sailing Union)
  • 1990 awarded the Beppe Croce Trophy by the ISAF . This high-level honorary award is only given to people who have demonstrated an extraordinary dedication to sailing in their life.
  • In 1992 he was the first athlete to be included in the newly founded Danish Sports Hall of Fame (German: Hall of Fame of Danish Sports) of the Danish Sports Association ( Danmarks Idrætsforbund ).
  • 1996 Awarded the title Sportsman of the Century (Danish: Århundredets Sportsmand) in his home country Denmark.
  • 2007 First honorary member (inductee) in the newly created ISAF Sailing Hall of Fame
  • 2017 A square in Copenhagen-Hellerup was named after him: Poul Elvstrøms Plads, the new address of his home club Hellerup Sejlklub

Other sailing activities

Elvstrøm also tried to take part in the America's Cup , but revolutionized the technology of his 12-meter sailing yacht to such an extent that his sponsor, Baron Marcel Bich (France I) from France, wanted to introduce changes. Elvstrøm gave up his project because he did not want to compromise.

Elvstrøm is known as a constructor and designer of boats and sailing accessories and has set up his own company Elvstrøm Sails based in Aabenraa ( Aabenraa ). The company has a red three-pointed crown as its logo. The double Olympic champion Jesper Bank now works at Elvstrøm Sails as Finance Director. He mastered the Finn dinghy boat class in the 1950s and brought many technical innovations and new training methods (for example targeted strength training) to dinghy sailing.

As a sailor in the Finn dinghy class, Elvstrøm developed what is known as suspension technology in sailing. In the pioneering days of ambitious dinghy sailing, he trained the technique at home in his garage in Hellerup. The hanging technology revolutionized dinghy sailing and is now the norm in all dinghy classes.

Together with the Danish yacht designer Jan Kjaerulff, Elvstrøm designed the fast, light and sporty-slim yacht Aphrodite 101 (client: Jörgen Juul Rasmussen [DK]), which was very successful. While Kjaerulff designed the hull shape, Elvstrøm designed the deck layout, the fitting arrangement and the rig . Furthermore, the invented Elvstrøm Elvström-ratchet block and the self-bailer (engl. Self bailer), both widely used today, and the regatta life jacket , now an integral part of the equipment of each competition glider.

He also passed on his sailing knowledge in books, in particular on sailing tactics and rules for regatta sailing.

Paul Elvstrøm was a member of the Hellerup Sejlklub and most recently lived in Hellerup near Copenhagen in Denmark . He struggled with Alzheimer's disease in the last few years of his life and fell asleep quietly in his home on December 7, 2016 at the age of 88.

literature

  • Paul Elvstrøm: Elvstrøm explains the sailing rules . 1966, ISBN 3-87412-021-X .
  • Paul Elvstrøm, Ullrich Libor : Dinghy sailing . Delius, Klasing 1966.
  • Paul Elvstrøm: Expert Dinghy and Keelboat Racing . Times Books, 1967, ISBN 0-8129-0054-5 (English).
  • Paul Elvstrøm: Elvström Speaks on Yacht Racing . One-Design & Offshore Yachtsman Magazine, 1970, ISBN 0-8129-0134-7 (English).
  • Paul Elvstrøm: Paul Elvstrom Speaks on Yacht Racing . Nautical Publishing Company, 1970, ISBN 0-245-59851-0 (English).
  • Richard Creagh-Osborne: Elvstrøm, his life, his successes . Delius, Klasing 1972, ISBN 3-7688-0128-4 .
  • Paul Elvstrøm: Paul Elvstrom Explains the Racing Rules of Sailing: 2009–2012 Rules . 16th edition. Verlag Adlard Coles, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4081-0949-6 (English).

Web links

Commons : Paul Elvstrøm  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Elvstrøm er død . TV 2 (Denmark) , December 7, accessed December 9, 2016 (Danish).
  2. ↑ Photo: Danish skipper Paul Elvstrøm (L) with daughter Trine (R) racing in the Tornado class at the Summer Olympics 1984. In: Getty Images . Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  3. ^ A b ISAF Sailing Hall of Fame: Paul Elvstrøm. Retrieved September 21, 2015 .
  4. ↑ TV2: Paul Elvstrøm er død (obituary for Paul Elvstrøm), December 7, 2016 , in Danish, accessed on December 8, 2017
  5. ↑ SR / Olympic Sports: Paul Elvstrøm , (English), accessed on February 9, 2020
  6. ↑ Photo: Danish yachtsmen Paul Elvstrøm, winner of the Firefly class at the 1948 Olympics in Torquay, Devon. In: Getty Images . August 13, 1948, accessed February 9, 2020 .
  7. ↑ fyns, dk: Det 20. århundredes største danske sportsmand er død (obituary for Paul Elvstrøm), December 7, 2016, Danish ( memento of the original from December 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 8, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fyens.dk
  8. ↑ Dansk Sejlunion: Dansk Sejlunions Ærestegn , (Danish), accessed on March 2, 2020
  9. ↑ Frederik Alexander Vording: Århundredets danske idrætsmand får plads i Hellerup (German: Century sportsman gets place in Hellerup). TV2, April 23, 2017, accessed March 2, 2020 (Danish).
  10. ↑ Elvstroem-sails website: Portrait of Paul Elvström ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on September 21, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / old.elvstromsails.com
  11. ^ History of Elvstrøm Sails. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on September 21, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / old.elvstromsails.com
  12. ↑ yacht.de: Obituary and interview with Paul Elvstrøm in YACHT 10/2005 (Tatjana Pokorny), December 8, 2016 , accessed on December 8, 2017
  13. ↑ Frederik Alexander Vording: Århundredets danske idrætsmand får plads i Hellerup (German: Century sportsman gets place in Hellerup). TV2, April 23, 2017, accessed March 2, 2020 (Danish).
  14. ↑ classicsailor.com: RIP Paul Elvstrom 1928 - 2016 (Dan Houston), December 9, 2016 English , accessed on December 8, 2017
  15. ↑ Tinkerer on the wind. In: daily newspaper taz. December 8, 2016, accessed February 24, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Mindeord: Paul Elvstrøm, December 8, 2016 af Dan Ibsen (obituary of Kongelig Dansk Yachtklub on Poul Elvstrøm), Danish , accessed on December 15, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Elvstrøm, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elvstrøm, Paul Bert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish sailor
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Hellerup
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 2016
Place of death Hellerup