Dick Coster, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Dick Coster

Olympic sailor

Date of Birth: 19-Jun-1946

Place of Birth: Leiden, County of Holland, Netherlands

Profession: skipper

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Benedictus Antonius Maria "Dick" Coster (born June 19, 1946 in Leiden) is a sailor from the Netherlands.
Since the Netherlands did boycott the Moscow Olympic Games Coster represented his National Olympic Committee at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Tallinn, USSR under the Dutch NOC flag.
With Geert Bakker as helmsman and fellow crew member Steven Bakker, Coster took the 5th place in the Soling.
During the 1976 Olympics Coster was substitute for the Dutch Soling team. Dick Coster also represented The Netherlands during the 2008 Vintage Yachting Games in Medemblik as crew in the Soling with helmsman Steven Bakker and fellow crewmembers Sven Coster and Joost Houweling.
The team took silver.