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John Bertrand (Australian sailor)
John Edwin Bertrand
AM
(born 20 December 1946 in
Melbourne, Victoria
) is a yachtsman from
Australia
, who skippered
Australia II
to victory in the 1983
America's Cup
, ending 132 years of American supremacy. Bertrand won the bronze medal in the
Finn
competition at the
1976 Summer Olympics
in
Montreal
. He is a member of
Royal Brighton Yacht Club
in
Melbourne
Australia, and currently competes in the
Etchells
class boats. He has been married for many years to Rasa Bertrand, whom he met as a student.
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