Tore Holm

Jörgen Sundelin
Tore Holm 1931.jpg
Nationality:	Sweden
Birthday:	November 25, 1896
Place of birth:	Gamleby , Sweden
Date of death:	November 15, 1977
Place of death:	Gamleby
Size:	181 cm
Weight:	70 kg
Society:	Kungliga Svenska Segelsällskapet (KSSS) Norrköpings Segelsällskap (NSS)
Boat classes:	40 m² class, 6 meter class , 8 meter class
Medal table
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Olympic Summer Games gold 1920 Antwerp 40 m² class gold 1932 Los Angeles 6 meter class bronze 1928 Amsterdam 8 meter class bronze 1948 London 6 meter class

Tore Anton Holm (born November 25, 1896 in Gamleby , Sweden ; † November 15, 1977 there ) was a Swedish sailor and two-time Olympic champion .

He started in 1920 in Antwerp as a crew member of the Swedish yacht Sif , with whom he won the gold medal in the 40-m class. Eight years later at the Games in Amsterdam , he won the bronze medal as a crew member on the Sylvia in the 8-meter class. In 1932 he won his second gold medal on the Bissbi in the 6-meter class in Los Angeles . At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin (sailed off Kiel ), he just missed the medal ranks in 4th place in the 8-meter class. He finished his Olympic career in London in 1948 with his fourth medal. On the Ali Baba II he again won a bronze medal in the 6-meter class.

In 1922 Tore Holm graduated from Stockholm Technical University as an engineer. He then ran the most productive shipyard in Sweden, which he inherited from his father in the early 1930s. Tore Holm designed his successful Olympic yachts Bissbi and Sif himself and many other yachts.

Web links

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• Tore Holm in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Biography at classicyachting.net