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| Full name | Erik Rickard Sarby | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 September 1912 Dannemora, Sweden | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 10 February 1977 (aged 64) Uppsala, Sweden | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Sailing | ||||||||||||||
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| Club | Uppsala KF | ||||||||||||||
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Erik Rickard Sarby (19 September 1912 – 10 February 1977) was a Swedish sailor. He competed in the mixed one-person dinghy event at the 1948, 1952 and 1956 Olympics and finished in fourth, third and fifth place, respectively.[1]
Born in a village near Uppsala, Sarby moved to the main city in the 1930s. There he worked as a hairdresser and sailed in free time. He later became a boat designer.[2]