Geert Bakker Explained

Geert Bakker
Fullname:Geert Alle Bakker
Nationality:Dutch
Birth Date:15 January 1921
Birth Place:Appingedam
Death Place:Warmond
Height:1.94m (06.36feet)
Classes:Soling
Club:Koninklijke Watersport Vereniging
De Kaag
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Updated:3 February 2023

Geert Alle Bakker (15 January 1921 in Appingedam – 7 August 1993 in Warmond) was a sailor from the Netherlands, who represented his country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. With crew Pieter Keijzer and Harald de Vlaming Bakker took the 5th place in the Soling. Since in 1980 The Netherlands did boycott the Moscow Olympic Games Bakker again in the Soling represented his National Olympic Committee under the Dutch NOC flag. This time with crew Dick Coster and his son Steven Bakker They took again 5th place.

From 1976 till 1979 Geert was president of the International Soling Association. After a brain stroke in 1983 he stayed close involved with Soling Sailing however he specialized in judging.

Controversy

Several countries did boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics, others like France did not go since they found the competition devaluated. As result only half of the expected fleet was present during the Olympic regattas. It was the effort of Bakker and Ben Staartjes that the Dutch Olympic Sailing Team went to Tallinn.

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