| Rickard Sarby | |
| Fullname: | Erik Rickard Sarby |
| Birth Date: | 19 September 1912 |
| Birth Place: | Dannemora, Sweden |
| Death Date: | 10 February 1977 (aged 64) |
| Death Place: | Uppsala, Sweden |
| Sport: | Sailing |
| 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.
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.
Having taken up the design of sailing canoes (his success with C-class designs is noted in the Swedish Wikipedia), Rickard Sarby submitted an entry, named 'FIN', to a 1948 competition for the design of a single-handed dinghy suitable for both local and Olympic use. The design was based on an earlier open class E double-ended sailing canoe.[1] [2] The success of the subsequent prototype 'FINT' dinghy in sailing trials was sufficient to reverse its rejection in earlier rounds of selection.[3] [4] Further renamed Finn, it remained an Olympic class from Helsinki 1952 to Tokyo 2020, thus being the longest-running class in the Olympic fleet.[5]