Asenathi Jim

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Asenathi Jim
Personal information
Full nameAsenathi Jim
NicknameSquirrel [1]
NationalityFlag of South Africa.svg  South Africa
Born (1992-01-26) 26 January 1992 (age 32)
Cape Town, South Africa
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Weight65 kg (143 lb)
Sailing career
Class Dinghy
ClubRaceAhead [2]
CoachRoger Hudson [2]

Asenathi Jim (born 26 January 1992 in Cape Town) is a South African sailor, who specialized in two-person dinghy (470) class. [2] [3] He represented South Africa, along with his personal coach and partner Roger Hudson, at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Olympics, and has trained throughout most of his sporting career for RaceAhead Yacht Club. [2] [4] [5]

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Career

Jim and Hudson first teamed up at the 2011 Delta Lloyd Regatta in Medemblik, the Netherlands. [6]

Jim qualified for the South African squad in the men's 470 class at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London by finishing thirty-second from the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. [4] [7] Teaming up with his personal coach and partner Hudson in the opening series, the South African duo were finished in the penultimate position out of twenty-seven boats after ten races with an accumulated net score of 194 points. [8] [9] They were the only South African entry in any of the sailing events at the 2012 Olympics. [1]

At the 2016 Olympics, Jim and Hudson finished in 20th position. [5] They also won the inaugural African 470 Sailing Championships. [10]

In 2018, Jim was one of the coaches for the South African junior team for the Youth World Sailing Championships. [11]

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References

  1. 1 2 Dunster, Roy (3 January 2014). "Asenathi Jim Honoured by South African Media". www.470.org. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Jim Asenathi". London 2012 Olympics. London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 5 April 2013. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
  3. ↑ "Asenathi Jim". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
  4. 1 2 Isaacson, David (25 June 2012). "Sailing into a dream - Asenathi's Olympic reality". South Africa: The Sunday Times. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
  5. 1 2 "Asenathi Jim at Olympics.com". Olympics.com. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  6. ↑ "My Road to Rio – Asenathi Jim and Roger Hudson". www.sail-world.com. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  7. ↑ Herskovitz, Jon (19 June 2012). "Two men in a boat bridge South Africa race gap". Reuters. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
  8. ↑ "Men's 470". London 2012 Olympics. London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 30 May 2013. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
  9. ↑ "Olivier falls short in 800m semi". News24. 7 August 2012. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
  10. ↑ "Counting down to Rio with Roger Hudson & Asenathi Jim". Southern Charter. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  11. ↑ Berman, Alon (23 May 2018). "Olympians Jim and Marcia building the next generation". TeamSA. Retrieved 1 September 2024.


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