Govert Brasser

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Govert Brasser
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Full nameGovert Jacob Willem Brasser
NationalityDutch
Born (1957-04-24) 24 April 1957 (age 67)
The Hague
Height1.88 m (6.2 ft)
Sailing career
Class Tornado
Updated on 2014-01-09

Govert Jacob Willem Brasser (born 24 April 1957, in The Hague) is a sailor from the Netherlands. Since the Netherlands did boycott the Moscow Olympic Games Brasser represented his National Olympic Committee at the 1980 Summer Olympics, which was boycotted by several countries, in Tallinn, USSR under the Dutch NOC flag. With Willem van Walt Meijer as helmsman, Brasser took the 5th place in the Tornado.

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