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| Full name | John Edwin Bertrand | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 20 December 1946 (age 77) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | ||||||||||||||
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John Edwin Bertrand AO (born 20 December 1946) is a yachtsman from Australia, who skippered Australia II to victory in the 1983 America's Cup, ending 132 years of American supremacy, and the only time Australia has won.[1] Bertrand won the bronze medal in the Finn competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.[2] In 2010 and 2016,[3] he won the world Etchells class sailing championships. He is a life member of both the Royal Brighton Yacht Club in Melbourne, and the Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club.
- ^ "John Bertrand". Sport Australia Hall of Fame. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "John Bertrand". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 13 November 2012. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
- ^ "John Bertrand wins Etchells Worlds". 10 September 2016. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 2 December 2016.