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Kelvin Harrap
Kelvin Harrap (born 1970) is a New Zealand sailor (sport), sailor who has represented his country at the Summer Olympics and sailed in multiple America's Cups and Volvo Ocean Races. Harrap was born 1970 in Napier, New Zealand, Napier, New Zealand. He sailed the 1993–94 Whitbread Round the World Race as part of the crew on Chris Dickson (sailor), Chris Dickson's ''Tokio (yacht), Tokio'' before joining his Tag Heuer Challenge team at the 1995 Louis Vuitton Cup. Harrap represented New Zealand at the 1996 Summer Olympics, sailing a Soling with Sean Clarkson and Jamie Gale. The team Sailing at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Soling, finished 14th in the fleet race competition. Harrap again joined Dickson for the 1997–98 Whitbread Round the World Race, this time on ''Toshiba (yacht), Toshiba''. He then joined the America True syndicate for the 2000 Louis Vuitton Cup. He was then part of the One World Challenge for the 2003 Louis Vuitton Cup before joining Team New Zealand for the 2007 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sailor (sport)
The sport of sailing involves a variety of competitive sailing formats that are sanctioned through various sailing federations and yacht clubs. Racing disciplines include matches within a fleet of sailing craft, between a pair thereof or among teams. Additionally, there are specialized competitions that include setting speed records. Racing formats include both closed courses and point-to-point contests; they may be in sheltered waters, coast-wise or on the open ocean. Most competitions are held within defined classes or ratings that either entail one type of sailing craft to ensure a contest primarily of skill or rating the sailing craft to create classifications or handicaps. On the water, a sailing competition among multiple vessels is called a regatta. A Regatta consists of multiple individual races. The boat crew that performs best in over the series of races is the overall winner. There is a broad variety of kinds of races and sailboats used for racing from large yacht t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Zealand Herald
''The New Zealand Herald'' is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment, and considered a newspaper of record for New Zealand. It has the largest newspaper circulation in New Zealand, peaking at over 200,000 copies in 2006, although circulation of the daily ''Herald'' had declined to 100,073 copies on average by September 2019. The ''Herald''s publications include a daily paper; the ''Weekend Herald'', a weekly Saturday paper; and the ''Herald on Sunday'', which has 365,000 readers nationwide. The ''Herald on Sunday'' is the most widely read Sunday paper in New Zealand. The paper's website, nzherald.co.nz, is viewed 2.2 million times a week and was named Voyager Media Awards' News Website of the Year in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. In 2023, the ''Weekend Herald'' was awarded Weekly Newspaper of the Year and the publication's mobile application was the News App of the Year. Its main circulation area is the Auckland R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
