[CUCBC Contacts] Fwd: America's Cup winner John Bertrand to speak in Cambridge 7th April

[Thomas Walton]

Forwarded message below - please don't reply to me!

Thomas

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From: Anne Hinton <annehint at googlemail.com>
Date: 2009/4/1
Subject: America'c Cup winner John Bertrand to speak in Cambridge 7th April
To: cucbc at cucbc.org


Hi,

I sent this email to CUBC, but am not sure if it will have reached all
Colleges too. Can you please forward urgently? Thanks.

All Cam Uni rowers might be interested in this:

John Bertrand, AM, who as skipper and helmsman of Australia II ended
132 years of American domination of the America's Cup sailing off
Newport, Rhode Island, in 1983, is addressing the CU Australia and New
Zealand Society annual dinner at Fitzwilliam College on 7th April.
John is also an Olympic medallist and World Champion - and is still at
the top of his sport, finishing on the podium at the World
Championships of one of the most competitive sailboat classes earlier
this month, with Britain's most decorated Olympic sailor, Ben Ainslie,
on the three-man crew.

In the America's Cup "there is no second" place - winning is
everything, as epitomised in John's autobiography 'Born to Win'. These
days rowers often compete in the America's Cup - where they are
usually used for brawn rather than brain, as grinders. (An example is
Rob Waddell, who sails with Team New Zealand. Rob was Gold medallist
in the single sculls at the Sydney Olympics.)

John Bertrand is speaking on 'Sport, Academia and Sponsorship' at the
dinner on 7th April, but I am sure he'd be happy to answer more
broadly-based questions, although he has requested not to be
pigeon-holed!

I thought that rowers in Cambridge might be interested to attend the
dinner. Tickets are available to all, priced £30, until Friday, 3rd April,
or until sold out (if this is earlier). Contact Tim Benseman,
tb312 at cam.ac.uk, for tickets and further information.

Don't contact me for more info - I won't be at the dinner, unfortunately!

Anne