Tiit Haagma (5 April 1954 – 27 May 2021) was an

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and t ...

n sailor and musician. He was born in

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. He started his sailing exercising in 1961, coached by Enn Metsar, and Peeter Leola. In 1984 he won World Championships in Ice Sailing (DN-class). He was 8-times Estonian champion: 1 time (1986) in ice sailing, and 7 times (1988–2004) in open sea sailing. In 1984 he was named as

Estonian Athlete of the Year The Estonian Athlete of the Year ( et, Eesti Aasta Sportlane) is an annual award presented by the Estonian Olympic Committee (''Eesti Olümpiakomitee'', EOK) to one male and one female sportsperson judged to have delivered the best performance o ...

. He was also a musician. 1972–1986 he played bass guitar at the musical groups Varjud, and

Ruja Ruja was one of the foremost Estonian rock bands of the 1970s and 1980s. The name of the band comes from a neologism "ruja", for science fiction, though there are people who believe that "ruja" is actually made up of the first letters of the ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Haagma, Tiit 1954 births 2021 deaths Estonian male sailors (sport) Estonian musicians Estonian rock guitarists 20th-century Estonian male musicians Sportspeople from Tallinn Musicians from Tallinn