Joonas Lindgren, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Joonas Lindgren

Olympic sailor

Date of Birth: 31-May-1986

Place of Birth: Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Profession: sailor

Nationality: Finland

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Joonas Lindgren

  • Joonas Lindgren (born 31 May 1986 in Helsinki) is a Finnish sailor, who specialized in two-person dinghy (470) class.
  • He represented Finland at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and has also been training for the Helsinki Sailing Club (Helsingfors Segelklubb) throughout most of his sporting career.
  • His father and personal coach Jouko Lindgren shared bronze medals with Georg Tallberg in the same program at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
  • As of September 2013, Lindgren is ranked no.
  • 33 in the world for two-person dinghy class by the International Sailing Federation. Lindgren competed as a skipper in the men's 470 class at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London by finishing twenty-second and receiving a berth from the ISAF World Championships in Perth, Western Australia.
  • Teaming with his younger brother and skipper Niklas Lindgren in the opening series, the Finnish duo accumulated a net score of 167 to claim a twenty-first spot in a fleet of twenty-seven boats.

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