Viktor Yakovlevich Potapov

Viktor Jakowlewitsch Potapow ( Russian Виктор Яковлевич Потапов ; born February 15, 1924 in Dolgoprudny ; † December 10, 2017 ibid) was a Soviet sailor .

successes

Viktor Potapov took part in the Olympic Games three times . When he participated for the first time in 1972 , he started in the Olympic sailing regatta at the Olympic Center Schilksee in Kiel in the boat class Finn-Dinghy and finished in third place. He won the bronze medal behind Serge Maury and Ilias Chatzipavlis . Four years later he competed with his brother Alexander Potapow in the 470 dinghy and in fourth just missed another medal win. They achieved a total of 57 points, tied with the Australian boat, which, however, had achieved first place in the sixth race. The Potapov brothers only got two second places, so they were classified behind Ian Ruff and Ian Brown . At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow he was fourth again in a tornado with Alexander Sybin . With Sybin he managed to win the title at the World Championships in the tornado both in Weymouth in 1978 and in Auckland in 1980 .

In 2017 he was killed in a traffic accident in his hometown Dolgoprudny .

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

personal data
SURNAME	Potapov, Viktor Jakowlewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Potapov, Viktor; Потапов, Виктор Яковлевич (Cyrillic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	soviet sailor
DATE OF BIRTH	February 15, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dolgoprudny , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH	December 10, 2017
Place of death	Dolgoprudny , Russia