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1896 – 1977 · Gamleby, Sweden

Tore Holm

Designer, builder and Olympic sailor — Gamleby, Sweden

Five Olympics, two golds and two bronzes, a family boatyard, and a J-Class design that waited seventy-eight years to be built.

Olympics
1920 gold (40 m²), 1928 bronze (8-Metre), 1932 gold (6-Metre), 1936 fourth (8-Metre), 1948 bronze (6-Metre)
Yard
Ran the Holm boatyard at Gamleby
Svea
His J-Class design of 1937 was not built until 2015, in the Netherlands
  • 1929Bissbi — 6-Metre; Olympic gold 1932
  • 1930Elsinore — 8-Metre
  • designed 1937Svea — J-Class; launched 2015

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