Yngve Holm

Yngve Holm
Yngve Holm, 1920
Nationality:	Sweden
Birthday:	September 12, 1895
Place of birth:	Västervik , Sweden
Date of death:	February 16, 1943
Place of death:	Stockholm , Sweden
Society:	Norrköpings Segelsällskap (NSS)
Boat classes:	40 m² skerry cruiser
Medal table
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Olympic games gold Antwerp 1920 40 m² class

Yngve Robert Holm (born September 12, 1895 in Västervik , † February 16, 1943 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish sailor .

40 m² skerry cruiser

successes

Yngve Holm, who for the Norrköpings Segelsällskap sailed, was in 1920 in Antwerp at the Olympic Games in the 40-m-class Olympic champion . Along with Axel Rydin and Georg Tengvall, he was a crew member of the Sif , one of two boats of his class in the competition. The skipper was Yngve Holm's brother Tore .

Both yachts came from Sweden, between which there was no real competition on the water. The regatta consisted of three races. In the first, both participating yachts Sif and Elsie were disqualified because they had not sailed the correct course. In the second race, Sif won because Elsie had problems with her rigging and could not finish the race. Elsie could not fix these problems until the third race and therefore could not start. So Sif sailed the course alone and won the gold medal.

Like his brother Tore, Yngve Holm designed innovative yachts and also owned its own shipyard in Ystad . But he was not as successful in regatta sailing as his brother.

Web links

• Yngve Holm in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Yngve Holm at the Sveriges Olympiska Kommitté (Swedish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sailing at the 1920 Antwerp Summer Games: Mixed 40 m² - Summary in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ), accessed on July 17, 2020.