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Full name | Thore Göran Andersson | |||||||||||
Nationality | Swedish | |||||||||||
Born | Lysekil, Sweden | 4 October 1939|||||||||||
Died | 18 November 2020 Skärhamn, Sweden | (aged 81)|||||||||||
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Class(es) | Finn, OK | |||||||||||
Club | Marstrands Segelsällskap | |||||||||||
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Thore Göran Andersson (4 October 1939 – 18 November 2020) was a Swedish Olympic sailor and sailmaker.
Born in Lysekil, Göran Andersson represented Marstrands Segelsällskap. [1] Andersson competed in the Finn event at the 1960 Summer Olympics and finished 28th. [2] He continued to the OK class and won two OK World Championship, in 1965 and 1966. [1] [3]
Andersson worked as a sailmaker, founding and running the Marinex loft in Marstrand. [1] In 2020, he was inducted to the Swedish Sailing Federation Hall of Fame as its 12th inductee. [1] [4]
Andersson died on 18 November 2020 in Skärhamn. [5] His yacht club Marstrands Segelsällskap has named an OK regatta named after him, the Göran Andersson Cup. [6] [7]