Axel Schmidt
Axel Frederik Preben Schmidt was a Brazilian sailor from Rio de Janeiro who competed in the Summer Olympic Games, the Pan American Games, the Snipe World Championships, the Star World Championships and the Lightning World Championships.
He is the son of Preben Tage Axel Schmidt and Helene Margrete Jelinski and brother of Ingrid, Margrete and Erik Schmidt, also competitive Brazilian sailors. Ingrid is the mother of Torben Grael and Lars Grael.
He and his twin brother Erik were known as "the sea twins" after winning 3 Snipe Worlds in a row. They also won the 1959 Pan American Games and finished 2nd in the 1963 Pan American Games in Lightning and third in the 1961 Lightning World Championships. In the Star class, they were 9th at the 1967 Star World Championships, and Axel was 22nd at the 1980 Star World Championships with Luiz Amaro as a crew.Axel Schmidt sailed at 2 different Pan American Games:
Axel Schmidt sailed at 2 different Olympic Games:
