Jesper Bank
Jesper Bank ( born April 6, 1957 in Fredericia ) is a Danish sailor, the world's one of the best match racing sailors. He is next to Paul Elvstrøm Denmark 's best-known and most successful professional sailor.
At the Olympic Games of Sydney 2000 Jesper Bank won his second gold medal in the match racing in the final against Jochen Schumann.
Jesper Bank was during the challenger round of the 32nd America 's Cup in 2007, the skipper of the German United Internet Team Germany. As the campaign had failed under his leadership, the ambitious goals far and Jesper Bank has been heavily criticized by the German press, he joined after the departure of the team from his post as skipper, helmsman and athletic director.
It was his second participation in the America's Cup. In the Cup on the Hauraki Gulf off New Zealand in 2003, he was helmsman for the Swedish syndicate Victory Challenge.
Jesper Bank bought in November 2008 together with the former CEO Claus Olsen, the sailmaker Elvstrøm Sails in Aabenraa (Denmark) by the owner Peter Jørgensen. In the company bank was already 1992 to 2001 served as a member of the Board. The sailmaker founded by repeated Danish Olympic champion Paul ELVSTROM be increasingly manufacture large sails for yachts over 70 feet in length and maxi - yachts in the future.
1992 Bank was chosen together with Jesper Seier and Steen Secher Denmark's athlete of the year and since 2009 he is a member of the Hall of Fame of the Danish Sports.