Steve Benjamin (sailor)
Appearance
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Full name | Stephen DeLancey Benjamin | ||||||||||||||
Born | September 29, 1955 Glen Cove, New York, U.S. | (age 68)||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Stephen DeLancey "Steve" Benjamin (born September 29, 1955 in Glen Cove, New York) is an American competitive sailor and Olympic silver medalist.
Career
He was College Sailor of the Year in 1978. At the 1984 Summer Olympics, Benjamin finished in 2nd place in the 470 class Mixed Two-Person Dinghy along with his partner Chris Steinfeld.
Steve was named US Sailing’s 2015 Yachtsman of the Year
References
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Steve Benjamin". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2016-12-04. Retrieved 2010-06-09.
Categories:
- 1955 births
- American male sailors (sport)
- ICSA College Sailor of the Year
- Living people
- Olympic sailors of the United States
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States in sailing
- Sailors at the 1984 Summer Olympics – 470
- Yale Bulldogs sailors
- Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- American sailing Olympic medalist stubs