Edgar White
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| Born | November 17, 1929 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | January 7, 2014 (aged 84) |
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Edgar Pardee Earle White (November 17, 1929 – January 7, 2014) was an American sailor and Olympic champion.[1][2] He competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, where he won a gold medal in the 5.5 metre class with the boat Complex II, together with Britton Chance and Sumner White.[3]
He was born in New York City, New York. Raised in Mantoloking, New Jersey, together with his twin brother Sumner,[4] he graduated from Harvard College.[1]
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- ^ Gillingham Jr., Evan S. "Sailing By Chance",Motor Boating, April 1967. Accessed August 3, 2022. "For the Helsinki Games he enlisted a strapping set of twins from Mantoloking, N. J., Edgar and Sumner White, whom he had seen sailing Comets successfully in downbay competition."
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Categories:
- 1929 births
- 2014 deaths
- American male sailors (sport)
- Harvard College alumni
- Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in sailing
- People from Mantoloking, New Jersey
- Sailors at the 1952 Summer Olympics – 5.5 Metre
- Sportspeople from Ocean County, New Jersey
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American sailing Olympic medalist stubs