Robbie Haines

Robbie Haines
Nationality:	United States
Birthday:	March 27, 1954
Place of birth:	San Diego
Size:	188 cm
Weight:	95 kg
Boat classes:	Soling
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 2 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Los Angeles 1984 Soling  Sailing world championships gold Visby 1979 Soling silver Ponce 1980 Soling gold Los Angeles 1983 Soling

Robert Bentley "Robbie" Haines junior (born March 27, 1954 in San Diego ) is a former American sailor .

successes

Robbie Haines was 1979 in Visby in the boat class Soling with Rod Davis and Edward Trevelyan as a crew world champion and a year secured thereon in Ponce with Davis and Trevelyan silver. In 1983 he won another world title in Los Angeles , but this time with a different crew. At the 1984 Olympic Games , which also took place in Los Angeles, he was the skipper of the US boat in the Soling class, whose crew again included Rod Ravis and Edward Trevelyan. They achieved two victories in seven races and they finished the regatta with 33.7 total points, with which they won the gold medal and became Olympic champion in front of the Brazilian boat of Torben Grael and the Canadian boat led by Hans Fogh .

In 1983, Haines graduated from San Diego State University .

Web links

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