Niklas Lindgren (sailor)

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Niklas Lindgren
Personal information
Nickname(s)Niksu [1]
NationalityFlag of Finland.svg  Finland
Born (1988-05-18) 18 May 1988 (age 35)
Helsinki, Finland
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight63 kg (139 lb)
Sailing career
Class(es) Dinghy
Club Helsingfors Segelklubb [1]
Coach Jouko Lindgren [1] [2]

Niklas Lindgren (born 18 May 1988 in Helsinki) is a Finnish sailor, who specializes in two-person dinghy (470) class. [1] [3] He represented Finland in two editions of the Olympic Games (2008 and 2012), and has also been training for the Helsinki Sailing Club (Helsingfors Segelklubb) throughout most of his sporting career. [1] His father and personal coach Jouko Lindgren shared bronze medals with Georg Tallberg in the same program at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. [2] As of September 2013, Lindgren is ranked no. 304 in the world for two-person dinghy class by the International Sailing Federation.

Lindgren made his Olympic debut at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he paired with crew member Heikki Elomaa in the men's 470 class. The Finnish duo finished twenty-seventh in a ten-round opening series with a mediocre net score of 196, edging out the Turkish brothers Deniz and Ateş Çınar by a narrow, two-point gap in the final standings. [4] [5]

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Lindgren competed as a crew member in the men's 470 class. His team received a berth by finishing twenty-second at the ISAF World Championships in Perth, Western Australia. [6] [7] Teaming with his older brother and skipper Joonas Lindgren in the opening series, the Finnish duo accumulated a net score of 167 to claim twenty-first spot in a fleet of twenty-seven boats. [8] [9]

At the 2016 Olympics, Lindgren again teamed with his brother Joonas to compete in the 470 class. The boat finished in 15th out of a total of 26 boats with a total of 123 points. [10]

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References

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  2. 1 2 "2008 Beijing: Sailing Profile – Niklas Lindgren". Finnish Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 9 May 2013. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
  3. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Niklas Lindgren". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  4. ↑ "Men's 470 Class". Beijing 2008 . NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 5 January 2014. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  5. ↑ "Lindgren ja Elomaa pitävät perää 470-luokassa" [Lindgren and Elomaa keep the truth in the 470 class] (in Finnish). Etelä-Suomen Sanomat. 12 August 2008. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
  6. ↑ "Finland's Lindgren brothers confirmed on Olympic startline". 470 World Championships. 25 May 2012. Archived from the original on 14 September 2013. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  7. ↑ "Finland expects Olympic success from its sailors". Helsingin Sanomat. 25 May 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  8. ↑ "Men's 470". London 2012 Olympic Games. London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 30 May 2013. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
  9. ↑ "Lindgrenien olympiaurakka päätökseen" [Lindgrens' Olympic contract concluded] (in Finnish). Yle. 7 August 2012. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
  10. ↑ "470 Men". Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. 24 August 2016. Archived from the original on 24 August 2016. Retrieved 1 August 2017.


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