Simon Korver

Simon Korver
Personal information
Full name Simon Willem Korver
Nationality Dutch
Born (1940-06-11) 11 June 1940
Amsterdam
Height 1.83 m (6.0 ft)
Sailing career
Class(es) Flying Dutchman
Club Watersport Vereniging
De Koenen
Coach Jacques Stap 1968 & 1972
Updated on 2013-12-28.

Simon Willem Korver (born June 11, 1940, Amsterdam) is a sailor from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Kiel, Germany. With helmsmen Fred Imhoff Korver took the 10th place in the Flying Dutchman. After the Munich massacre during the 1972 Summer Olympics Korver was in doubt if and how to continue. Jacques Stap the course area coach finally made him to continue to finish the series.

Korver was the substitute for the Flying Dutchman during the 1968 Olympics.

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