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:Royal Swedish Yacht Club

{{Short description|Yacht club in Sweden}}

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{{Infobox yacht club |

clubname = Kungliga Svenska Segel Sällskapet |

emblem = KSSS.png |

emblemcaption = Emblem |

burgee = Burgee of KSSS members.svg |

nickname = |

short name = KSSS |

founded = {{Start date and years ago|1830|5|15|df=y}} |

location = Hotellvägen 9, {{nowrap|Saltsjöbaden, Stockholm}} |

campus = Waterfront Saltsjöbaden and Sandhamn|

status = active |

chairman = |

commodore = Patrik Salén{{cite web | url=https://www.ksss.se/KSSS/styrelse--kommitteer/ | title=Styrelse & kommittéer }}|

website = http://www.ksss.se// |

}}

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The Royal Swedish Yacht Club ({{langx|sv|Kungliga Svenska Segelsällskapet}}, KSSS), is the largest and oldest yacht club in Sweden and one of the five oldest in the world, formed 15 May 1830. The Royal Swedish Yacht Club is also the oldest yacht club in Continental Europe.{{cite encyclopedia |last= |first= |encyclopedia = Nordisk familjeboks sportlexikon: uppslagsverk för sport, gymnastik och friluftsliv. Band 6 S–Övrevoll |title = Svenska Segel Sällskapet, Kungliga |trans-title = |url = https://runeberg.org/sportlex/6/0436.html |language = sv |year = 1946 |publisher = Nordisk familjeboks förlag |location = Stockholm |pages = 744–745}}

Activities include racing, training, education, squadron sailing, match racing and club activities. The Royal Swedish Yacht Club also operates the port and has its own ports in Saltsjöbaden and Sandhamn. Every year the yacht club organizes the Round Gotland Race sailed around Gotland, and the Sandhamsregattan at Sandön, in the Stockholm archipelago.

History

The Royal Swedish Yacht Club was founded on Skeppsholmen by O. Fresk, J. C. Fleming, C. F. Cimmerdahl, J. Falkenholm, G. E. Lundstedt, and P. A. Nordwall on 15 May 1830. In 1878, it received its royal title. The first regatta the club organised took place on 12 September 1833.

In the early 1850s Royal Swedish Yacht Club yachts Sverige and Aurora Borealis participated in races in England, and in 1854, the yacht club organised its first regatta with prizes. In 1895, Royal Swedish Yacht Club sailed together to Finland and participated in the Sinebrychoff Cup, which they won. In 1898, Royal Swedish Yacht Club sailors participated in a regatta in Norway, and in Kiel Week the year after. In 1912, the Royal Swedish Yacht Club organised the sailing event at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

The first Round Gotland Race was organised 7–9 July 1937 with 42 participating boats on a {{convert|250|nmi|km mi}} course starting and finishing in Visby.{{cite web | url=https://www.ksss.se/gotlandrunt/om-gotland-runt/historia/det-forsta-gotland-runt/ | title=Det första Gotland Runt }}

The yacht club took part founding the Swedish Sailing Federation in 1905 and Scandinavian Yacht Racing Union in 1915. Between 1893 and 1945, the Royal Swedish Yacht Club held lotteries on 65 boats to a combined worth of {{currency|420,000|SEK2}}. The Royal Swedish Yacht Club bought Lökholmen in 1945.

The Royal Swedish Yacht Club were the Challenger of Record for the 2013 America's Cup, where they were represented by Artemis Racing.{{cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10726338&ref=rss |title=Swedish yacht club becomes Challenger of Record |newspaper=The New Zealand Herald |date=18 May 2011}} Artemis Racing also completed in the 2017 America's Cup, where they were defeated by Emirates Team New Zealand in the Louis Vuitton Cup finals.

At the 2020 Summer Olympics, Royal Swedish Yacht Club sailors Anton Dahlberg and Fredrik Bergström finished second in the men's 470 event, while Josefin Olsson did the same in the Laser Radial event.{{cite web | url=https://www.ksss.se/KSSS/historia/ | title=Historia }}

Sailors

Sailors that have participated in the Summer Olympics while representing the Royal Swedish Yacht Club:

File:Sundelin brothers 1968b.jpg, Jörgen Sundelin and Ulf Sundelin]]

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Commodores

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  • Claes Cronstedt (1831–37){{cite book | url=https://issuu.com/ksss-sweden/docs/ksss_2022_zmag_hela | title=KSSS Årsbok 2022| author=Kungliga Svenska Segel Sällskapet| date=27 April 2022}}
  • Claes Fleming (1837–53)
  • Claes Annerstedt (1853–66)
  • Reinhold von Feilitzen (1866–75)
  • J. R. Lagercrantz (1875–96)
  • Herman af Petersens (1896–97)
  • Otto Lagerberg (1897–1900)
  • Louis Palander (1900–01)
  • F. W. Lennman (1901–05)
  • Jacob Hägg (1905–08)
  • none 1908–09
  • Prince Wilhelm (1909–10)
  • Oscar Holtermann (1910–25)
  • Rolf von Heidenstam (1925–35)
  • Otto Lybeck (1936–46)
  • Jacob Wallenberg (1946–55)
  • K. G. Hamilton (1955–59)
  • Gudmund Silfverstolpe (1959–67)
  • Per Gedda (1967–70)
  • Ola Wettergren (1970–75)
  • Sven H. Salén (1982–88)
  • Gunnar Ekdahl (1988–92)
  • Carl-Gustaf Piehl (1992–01)
  • Jacob Wallenberg (2011–18)
  • Staffan Salén (2011–2018){{cite web | url=https://www.ksss.se/nyheter/nyheter/2018/arsmotet-valde-ny-ordforande/ | title=Årsmötet valde ny ordförande | date=20 March 2018 }}
  • Patrik Salén (2018–present)

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See also

{{Portal|Sweden|Sports}}

References

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External links

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  • [http://www.ksss.se/ Official site]

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Swedish Yacht Club, Royal

Category:1830 establishments in Sweden

Category:Sports clubs and teams established in 1830

Category:Yacht clubs in Sweden

Category:Sports clubs and teams in Stockholm

Category:Saltsjöbaden

Category:Värmdö Municipality