Govert Brasser

Govert Brasser

Personal information
Full name	Govert Jacob Willem Brasser
Nationality	Dutch
Born	(1957-04-24) 24 April 1957 The Hague
Height	1.88 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.

Sources

• "Govert Brasser Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympic Sports. Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 2014-01-09. Retrieved 2014-01-09.
• "Zeilers: ,We gaan'". De Telegraaf (in Dutch). De Telegraaf. 1980-05-16. Retrieved 2014-01-29.
• "Zeilploeg bleef buiten de medailles". Leeuwarder Courant : Hoofdblad van Friesland (in Dutch). De Telegraaf. 1980-07-30. Retrieved 2014-01-29.
• "Staartjes: "Het heeft niet meegezeten" Geen medailles voor Nederlandse zeilers". De waarheid (in Dutch). 1980-07-31. Retrieved 2014-01-29.
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• "Games of the XXII Olympiad,Volume II: Organisation" (PDF). Fizkultura i Sport Publishers. 1981. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-17. Retrieved 2014-01-29.
• "Games of the XXII Olympiad,Volume III: Participants and Results" (PDF). Fizkultura i Sport Publishers. 1981. Retrieved 2014-01-29.