Peter Barrett (sailor)

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Peter Jones Barrett (born February 20, 1935 in Madison , Wisconsin , † December 17, 2000 there ) was an American professor of finance and business law and Olympic champion in sailing .

Life

Sailboats on Lake Mendota

Peter Barrett grew up in an athletic family in Madison. His father ran and coached the East High School football team . His mother was Madison's first tennis city ​​champion in the mid-1930s , both in singles and in mixed doubles . The Barrets' house was close to Lake Mendota , an excellent body of water for water sports. After school Peter Barrett attended Cornell University and then the Law School of the University of Wisconsin . After graduating in civil engineering , he briefly taught the subject before joining North Sails in Pewaukee , the world's largest sailmaker . From 1973 to 1985 he was Vice President of the company that his friend Lowell North , with whom he won the gold medal in 1968, founded in San Diego in 1957 . In 1985 he returned to the university and until 1997 taught as a professor of finance and business law at UW- Whitewater , part of the University of Wisconsin system . Barrett died in his hometown of Madison in 2000.

Sporting successes and honors

Barrett became internationally known primarily for his sporting success as a sailor. He was a member of the Alamitos Bay Yacht Club (ABYC) in Long Beach, California and took part in three Summer Olympic Games . At the 1960 Games in the Gulf of Naples , he finished eleventh in the Finn dinghy . In the same boat class he won at the Games in 1964 in Tokyo Bay the silver medal. At the 1968 Games he started in the sailing waters of Acapulco in the strong class and became Olympic champion with his sailing partner Lowell North. The Olympic successes were joined in 1970 by the title at the sailing world championships in the 470 dinghy . At the Star World Championships in 1967 he took second place, in 1966 he was North American champion in the Finn dinghy and in 1963 in the same class he won the Pan American Games in São Paulo , Brazil .

On June 22, 2007, UW-Whitewater inducted Barrett into the Madison Sports Hall of Fame . Back in 2004, the university established the Peter J. Barrett Sailing Alliance , which bundles the activities of UW-Whitewater and the Delevan Lake Sailing School in sailing. In memory of the athlete, the United States Sailing Association (USSA) also annually awards the Peter J. Barrett Sportsmanship Trophy to the US master in single-handed sailing .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mendota Yacht Club ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2008 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. : Peter Barrett: A Live Under Sail @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mendotayc.org
  2. ^ A b University of Wisconsin-Whitewater : Former professor to be inducted into Madison Sports Hall of Fame, May 22, 2007
  3. ↑ Peter Barrett in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
personal data
SURNAME Barrett, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barrett, Peter Jones (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sailor, professor of business law
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Madison , Wisconsin, USA
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 2000
Place of death Madison , Wisconsin, USA