Yves Loday

Yves Loday medal table
sailing
France
Olympic games
gold	Barcelona 1992	tornado
World championships
bronze	Carnac 1981	tornado
bronze	Hayling Island 1983	tornado

Yves Loday (born September 27, 1955 in Guérande ) is a former French sailor .

successes

Yves Loday took part twice in the Olympic Games in the boat class Tornado . 1984 in Los Angeles he finished eighth with Bernard Pichery . Eight years later in Barcelona he sailed with Nicolas Hénard . With a second place in the final seventh race, the two moved up to first place in the overall standings and overtook the US and Australian crews, making them Olympic champions . In 1981 and 1983 he won the bronze medal in the Tornado at world championships . In 1992 he became European champion.

Loday designed the Extreme 40 catamaran class .

Web links

• Yves Loday in the database of World Sailing (English)
• Yves Loday in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )