Personal information | |
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Full name | Richard Irving Stearns III |
Nationality | American |
Born | September 4, 1927 Evanston, Illinois, U.S. |
Died | January 25, 2022[1] Delavan, Wisconsin, U.S. | (aged 94)
Sailing career | |
Class | Star |
Club | Shore & Chicago Yacht Clubs |
Richard Irving "Dick" Stearns, III (September 4, 1927 – January 25, 2022) was an American competitive sailor and Olympic and Pan American Games medalist.
Stearns was born in Evanston, Illinois. [2] In 1963, he won a gold medal along with Robert Halperin at the Pan American Games in Sao Paulo, Brazil, sailing Ninotchka. [3] [4] He also started the company Lands' End, in the Spring of 1963, with Halperin, Halperin's close friend Gary Comer, and two of Stearns' employees. [5] He won a silver medal in the Star class at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, together with Lynn Williams. [2]