Svein Rasmussen (born 5 June 1963) is a Norwegian windsurfer. He was born in Arendal, Norway.
He started windsurfing in 1978 at the Arendal Sailing Club, won the Mistral Worlds in 1983 and participated in the windsurfing competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, where he placed eleventh.[1] In 1991, he became the first sailor to win in all disciplines of the IFCA Production Class Worlds.
In 1993, Svein Rasmussen retired from competition and decided to start his own windsurfing company. After meeting with Jean-Louis Colmas, a shaper from New Caledonia who, at that time, was the only one to use wood to build windsurf boards, Rasmussen founded Starboard[2] in 1994 and based the company in Thailand where it still is today.
References
edit- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Svein Rasmussen". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
- ^ "Starboard - Innovation & Quality". Starboard. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
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