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| Full name | Thore Göran Andersson | |||||||||||
| Nationality | Swedish | |||||||||||
| Born | (1939-10-04)4 October 1939 Lysekil, Sweden | |||||||||||
| Died | 18 November 2020(2020-11-18) (aged 81) Skärhamn, Sweden | |||||||||||
| Sailing career | ||||||||||||
| Class(es) | Finn, OK | |||||||||||
| Club | Marstrands Segelsällskap | |||||||||||
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Thore Göran Andersson (4 October 1939 – 18 November 2020) was a Swedish Olympic sailor and sailmaker.
Born in Lysekil, Göran Andersson represented Marstrands Segelsällskap. Andersson competed in the Finn event at the 1960 Summer Olympics and finished 28th. He continued to the OK class and won two OK World Championship, in 1965 and 1966.
Andersson worked as a sailmaker, founding and running the Marinex loft in Marstrand. In 2020, he was inducted to the Swedish Sailing Federation Hall of Fame as its 12th inductee.
Andersson died on 18 November 2020 in Skärhamn. His yacht club Marstrands Segelsällskap has named an OK regatta named after him, the Göran Andersson Cup.
References
- ^ "Göran Andersson invald i Hall of Fame". Swedish Sailing Federation. Archived from the original on 10 November 2019.
- "Göran Andersson". Olympedia. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
- "OKDIA Results".
- "Juniorduon prisas efter starka säsongen". Göteborgs-Posten. 12 October 2019.
- "Göran Andersson". Swedish Olympic Committee. 12 January 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2021. (in Swedish)
- "Marstrands Segelsällskap öppnar säsongen med Göran Andersson Cup". searchmagazine.se.
- "MSS hyllar ikonen – Göran Andersson cup en försmak inför sommarens VM i OK-jolle". Kungälvs-Posten. 22 April 2022.
External links
- Göran Andersson at the Swedish Olympic Committee (in Swedish)
- Göran Andersson at Olympedia
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