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About Alexander Hagen
- Alexander Hagen (born 1 January 1955 in Lübeck) is a German sailor.
- Hagen won the world championship in the Star Class in 1981 and 1997.
- He also won 7 Continental Championships (silver stars) and the European Championship in OK-Dinghy in 1975.
- The 1981 Star World Championships were held in Marblehead, United States in 1981.
- It was the first time since Pim von Huetschler in the 40th that non american sailors won the prestigious Worlds Title.
- It were Alexander Hagen and Vincent Hoesch from Germany that rocked the Star Class in the early 80th with Laser like downwind technics and light body weight.
- They were struggling upwind because of minor crew weight.
- They managed to reach the 1st mark in 10th position but were "flying" on the reach to call for room at the jibing mark into 1st position.
- They were rocking the boat and pumping sails like sitting on a Laser to extend their lead.
- Then it was easy to defend the lead from the front despite of their poor upwind speed.
- 2 Years later rocking and pumping was forbidden by the IYRU-Racing Rules.
- 16 Years later Alex Hagen won the Star Worlds again in Marblehead.
- This time Marcelo Ferreira (crew of Torben Grael) was crewing. Hagen also competed at the 1988 and 2004 Olympics.
- He invented a mathematic formula that limits the crew weight in the Star Class nowadays.
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