Ross MacDonald (sailor)

David Ross MacDonald (born January 27, 1965 in Vancouver ) is a retired Canadian sailor .

successes

Ross MacDonald competed five times in the Star boat class in the Olympic Games . 1988 he finished second in Seoul , first with his brother Bruce MacDonald sixth place before him in 1992 in Barcelona with Eric Jespersen winning the bronze medal achieved. With 62.7 points they came third behind the Americans Mark Reynolds and Hal Haenel and the New Zealanders Donald Cowie and Rod Davis . Four years later , MacDonald and Jespersen did not get past 14th place in Atlanta . The 2000 Games in Sydney he finished with Kai Bjorn in fifth place. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens he started with Mike Wolfs and finished second with him behind Marcelo Ferreira and Torben Grael and ahead of Xavier Rohart and Pascal Rambeau , with which they won the silver medal. At World Championships in 1989 in Porto Cervo, he and his brother Bruce secured bronze, before winning the title in San Diego with Eric Jespersen in 1994 . Two silver medals followed in 1999 and 2000, which he won together with Kai Bjorn. 13 years later he became world champion for a second time in Flensburg when he reached first place in the 6m class. In 1995 MacDonald was also European champion in the Starboot in Cascais . At the Whitbread Round the World Race 1997/98 he finished seventh.

MacDonald is married to the Brazilian sailor Márcia Pellicano , who competed in three Olympic regattas and won gold at the 1995 Pan American Games .

Ross MacDonald in the database of World Sailing (English)
Ross MacDonald in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

personal data
SURNAME	MacDonald, Ross
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	MacDonald, David Ross (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian sailor
DATE OF BIRTH	January 27, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vancouver , Canada