| Birth: | Jan. 22, 1915, Denmark | | Death: | May 26, 1996, Denmark | 
Champion Yachtsman. For more than two decades he was in the world elite in dragon class racing. At the first Olympic Games after WWII in London (1948) he won a bronze medal, and in Melbourne in 1956 he was awarded a silver. His greatest triumph came in 1964 in Tokyo when he won the gold medal. Besides his Olympic achievements he won the world championship six times and was twice the European champion. (bio by: Erik Skytte)
Search Amazon for Ole Berntsen | | | Burial:
Hellerup Cemetery
Copenhagen
Hovedstaden, Denmark
Plot: Section 15, plot 186. |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Originally Created by: Erik Skytte
Record added: Mar 26, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial# 25549156 |
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