Helmer Pedersen
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| Born | Helmer Orlaf Leif Pedersen[1] 28 March 1930 Copenhagen, Denmark | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 24 August 1987 (aged 57) | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 80 kg (180 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Sailing | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Otahuhu Sailing Club | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Helmer Orlaf Leif Pedersen (28 March 1930 in Copenhagen, Denmark – 24 August 1987) was an Olympic gold medallist for New Zealand in yachting.[1] With Earle Wells, Pedersen won the Flying Dutchman class at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Pedersen had previously been the reserve for the same class at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
In his home country of Denmark he had been mainly a Finn class yachtsman. He did not make any Danish Olympic team due to the presence of the great Paul Elvstrøm, although he was a reserve for Denmark at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Finland.
He died in 1987 from lung cancer after having been a heavy smoker.[2] He was retrospectively inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1990.[2]
References
[edit | edit source]External links
[edit | edit source]- Helmer Orlaf L. Pedersen at World Sailing (archive)
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- Helmer Pedersen and Earle Wells at the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame
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Categories:
- 1930 births
- 1987 deaths
- Danish male sailors (sport)
- New Zealand male sailors (sport)
- Olympic gold medalists for New Zealand in sailing
- Sailors at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Flying Dutchman
- Deaths from lung cancer in New Zealand
- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Sailors (sport) from Copenhagen
- 20th-century Danish sportsmen
- 20th-century New Zealand sportsmen
- New Zealand Olympic medalist stubs
- New Zealand sailing biography stubs