Reg White

Reg White medal table
sailing
United Kingdom
Olympic games
gold	Montreal 1976	tornado
World championships
silver	Copenhagen 1975	tornado
gold	Sydney 1976	tornado
silver	Weymouth 1978	tornado
gold	Kiel 1979	tornado

Reginald James "Reg" White , MBE (born October 28, 1935 in Brightlingsea , † May 27, 2010 ibid) was a British sailor .

successes

Reg White took part in the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal in the Tornado boat class . Together with his brother-in-law John Osborn , he won four of the first six races and finished the remaining two in fourth and fifth, so that they were already established as Olympic champions before the seventh and last race and did not participate in it. They received the gold medal ahead of the Americans David McFaull and Michael Rothwell and the German duo Jörg Spengler and Jörg Schmall . At the World Championships , they first secured the silver medal together in Copenhagen in 1975 , before winning the title in Sydney the following year . In addition, he won the title with Stephen Olle in Kiel in 1979 , after they had finished second in Weymouth in 1978 .

At the end of 1976 he was made a member of the Order of the British Empire for his Olympic victory . His son Robert White also took part in two Olympic sailing regattas. White himself was also active as a boat builder and ran a company with Yves Loday , among others , that specialized in catamaran construction. He was married and had four children.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Reg White. In: telegraph.co.uk. The Daily Telegraph , June 15, 2010, accessed March 19, 2020 .