Jesper Bank

Jesper Bank is a Danish sailor, born in Fredericia in 1957, who won Olympic gold in the three-person Soling keelboat class at the 1992 Barcelona Games and again at the 2000 Sydney Games, after taking bronze in the same class at Seoul in 1988. Across his career he collected eight world championship titles and three European titles, most of them as skipper of three-crew boats, and nine Danish national championships. He also raced in the America's Cup circuit, sailing for Victory Challenge in the 2003 Louis Vuitton Cup and for United Internet Team Germany in 2007. After competing he moved into sailmaking and became a widely used sailing adviser to teams and individual sailors at every level.