Jan Roland Andersson (born 14 December 1950 in

Uppsala Uppsala ( ; ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the capital of Uppsala County and the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019. Loc ...

) is a Swedish former Olympic sailor in the

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class. He finished 8th in the Soling class the

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together with Bertil Larsson and Göran Andersson.

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