Sigve Lie

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Sigve Lie sailing
Nationality: NorwayNorway Norway
Birthday: April 1, 1906
Place of birth: Haugesund , NorwayNorwayNorway 
Date of death: March 18, 1958
Place of death: Oslo , NorwayNorwayNorway 
Society: Kongelig Norsk Seilforening (KNS)
Boat classes: Dragons
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings Olympic games
gold London 1948 Dragons
gold Helsinki 1952 Dragons

Sigve Lie (born April 1, 1906 in Haugesund , † March 18, 1958 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian sailor .

successes

Sigve Lie, who sailed for Club Kongelig Norsk Seilforening , took part twice in the Olympic Games in the kite boat class . Both times he was a crew member alongside Håkon Barfod on the Norwegian boat Pan , which was built by Thor Thorvaldsen and who was also the skipper of the boat. With, among other things, two victories in seven races, the Norwegians won the 1948 regatta in London with 4746 total points just ahead of the Swedish boat led by Skipper Folke Bohlin and the Danish boat led by William Berntsen . 1952 succeeded Lie with Barfod and Thorvaldsen in Helsinki the repetition of the Olympic victory when they again won the gold medal with the Pan . They won three of the seven races and finished the regatta with 6129 points in front of the Swedish boat led by Per Gedda and the German boat led by Theodor Thomsen . Lie also won the Gold Cup in Arendal in 1948 and in Vejle in 1950 .

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