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Paul Côté
Paul Côté (28 January 1944 – 19 July 2013) was a Canadian sailor. He won a bronze medal in the ''Soling Class'' at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Côté was co-founder of Greenpeace and headed many successful business ventures in Canada and the United States, including Genstar Development Company, Genstar and Newland Group. References * Paul Côté's obituary 1944 births 2013 deaths Sailors (sport) from Vancouver Canadian male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for Canada Olympic bronze medalists for Canada Olympic medalists in sailing Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Sailors at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Soling 20th-century Canadian people {{Canada-yachtracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sailing (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 Handicapping, handicaps. On water, a sailing competition among multiple vessels is a regatta, which usually consists of multiple individual races, where 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 Yac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
