Stig Westergaard (born 16 September 1963 in

Esbjerg Esbjerg (, ) is a seaport city and seat of Esbjerg Municipality on the west coast of the Jutland peninsula in southwest Denmark. By road, it is west of Kolding and southwest of Aarhus. With an urban area, urban population of 71,554 (1 January ...

) is a Danish Olympic sailor in the Finn and Soling classes. Westergaard competed in the 1992 and

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.Stig Westergaard at Sports Reference
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; in 2001–02 on '' Djuice Dragons'' and in 2008–09 on ''

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''. He is the brother of

Bjørn Westergaard Bjørn Westergaard (born 12 September 1962, in Esbjerg) is a Danish sailor in the Finn and Soling classes, who finished 21st in the 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as At ...

. His son Magnus Westergaard is a professional

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