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Roy Heiner

Personal information
Full name	Roy Heiner
Nationality	Dutch
Born	(1960-11-22) 22 November 1960 (age 64) Virginia, Free State, South Africa
Height	1.93 m (6.3 ft)
Sailing career
Class(es)	Finn Star Soling
Competition record Representing  Netherlands Olympic Games 1996 Savannah Finn
Updated on 19 February 2014

Roy Heiner (born 22 November 1960, in Virginia, Free State, South Africa) is a sailor from the Netherlands, who represented his country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Pusan. Heiner took 7th place in the Finn. In 1992 Summer Olympics, Barcelona Heiner helmed the Dutch Soling. With crew members Peter Burggraaff and Han Bergsma Heiner took 18th place. Heiner switched back to the Finn for the 1996 Summer Olympics, Savannah and took the bronze medal. His last Olympic appearance was in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. With crew members Peter van Niekerk and Dirk de Ridder Heiner took 4th place in the Soling.

Sailing career

Besides his Olympic sailing career Heiner competed on professional basis in:

• Three years in the World Matchrace circuit
• Three Volvo Ocean Races,
  • Skipper of Brunel Sunergy (1997–1998)
  • Skipper of Assa Abloy (2002) for the first leg (sacked in Cape Town)
  • Technical Director of the winning Team ABN AMRO campaign (2005–2006)
• BMW Oracle (America's Cup 2003) in new Zealand as:
  • Training boat helmsman
  • Afterguard coach of the racing team

Professional life

Heiner holds a BSc in Civil Engineering from the University of Durban-Westville (1980–1985). In 1996 Heiner founded his Sailing academy: Team Heiner nowadays located in Lelystad.

References

1. "Roy Heiner Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympic Sports. Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
2. "Heiner: van civiel ingenieur tot tweede bij WK-Finnjollen". Leeuwarder courant : hoofdblad van Friesland (in Dutch). 12 February 1988. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
3. "Worrell wil opheldering over Roy Heiner". Het vrije volk : democratisch-socialistisch dagblad (in Dutch). 14 July 1988. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
4. "De Nederlandse olympische zeilploeg". De Telegraaf (in Dutch). 10 September 1988. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
5. "Nederlandse zeilploeg met lege handen naar huis". De Telegraaf (in Dutch). 28 September 1988. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
6. "Verbond mikt op vier Olympische zeilmedailles". De Volkskrant. 4 December 1997. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
7. "Zwarte dag voor Nederlandse Zeilploeg in Sydney". Nieuwsbank. 26 September 2000. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
8. "Jaarverslag KNWV 2000". Koninklijk Nederlands Watersport Verbond. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
9. "Roy Heiner". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
10. "Team Heiner". www.teamheiner.nl. Retrieved 19 February 2014.

Further reading

• Official Report,Volume 1: Organization and Planning (PDF). Seoul: Olympic Organizing Committee. 1989. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
• Official Report,Volume 2: Competition, Summary and Results (PDF). Seoul: Seoul Olympic Organizing Committee. 1989. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
• "Official Report of the Games of the XXV Olympiad Barcelona 1992, Volume I The Challenge: From the idea to the nomination" (PDF). Barcelona: COOB'92 S.A. 1992. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
• "Official Report of the Games of the XXV Olympiad Barcelona 1992, Volume II The Means: Objectives, resources and venues" (PDF). Barcelona: COOB'92 S.A. 1992. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
• "Official Report of the Games of the XXV Olympiad Barcelona 1992, Volume III The Organisation: The preparation of the Games" (PDF). Barcelona: COOB'92 S.A. 1992. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
• "Official Report of the Games of the XXV Olympiad Barcelona 1992, Volume IV The Games: Sixteen days in summer" (PDF). Barcelona. 1992. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
• "Official Report of the Games of the XXV Olympiad Barcelona 1992, Volume V The Results" (PDF). Barcelona: COOB'92 S.A. 1992. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
• "The Official Report of the Centennial Olympic Games, Volume I Planning and Organization" (PDF). Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers. 1997. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 June 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
• "The Official Report of the Centennial Olympic Games, Volume II The Centennial Olympic Games" (PDF). Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers. 1997. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 July 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
• "The Official Report of the Centennial Olympic Games, Volume III The Competition Results" (PDF). Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers. 1997. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
• Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad, Volume One -Preparing for the Games (PDF). Manufactured in Australia: Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. 2001. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
• Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad, Volume Two – Celebrating the Games (PDF). Manufactured in Australia: Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. 2001. Retrieved 19 February 2014.

External links

• Roy Heiner at World Sailing
• Roy Heiner at Olympics.com
• Roy Heiner at Olympedia (archive)

v t e Soling Dutch Championship Winners

Fleet racing

1971: Klein, S. Bakker & J. Schäfer 1972: G. Bakker, Lucas & F. Bakker 1973:  East Germany Below, Engelhardt & Zachries 1974: Blok, Vandenberg & Kurpershoek 1975 - 77 Not held 1978: G. Bakker 1979:  United Kingdom Simonds 1980:  Denmark Kantman 1981: G. Bakker, Coster & Behrend 1982:  Denmark Bandolowski, Palm & Hansen 1983:  West Germany Kuhweide 1984 - 85 Not held 1986:  West Germany Jungblut 1987:  West Germany Jungblut 1988:  Italy Lamaro, Della Vecchia, Romano 1989: Heiner 1990: Heiner 1991: Kimman, Keijser & Unger 1992: den Outer, Samdahl  Norway & Ruys 1993: W. Potma, G. Potma, Hettinga 1994: W. Potma, G. Potma, Hettinga 1995: den Outer, de Zeeuw & Determan 1996 - 97 Not held 1998: den Outer, Offermans & den Arend 1999: den Outer, Determan & den Arend 2000: den Outer, de Lange & Determan 2001: Not held 2002: Offermans, Schoof & Copper 2003:  United States Walker, Zijlstra & Brown 2004 - 07 Not held 2008: den Outer, Determan, den Arend 2009 - 10 Not held 2011: den Outer, Determan, Lidlow 2012: den Outer, Lidlow, D. Bakker 2013: Offermans, Hillige & van Braam 2014: den Outer, lidlow, Souli 2015: den Outer, lidlow, Souli 2016: den Outer, de Lange & Souli 2017: Heinonen  Finland, Helmhout & Werf 2018: Heinonen  Finland, Helmhout & Palmu  Finland 2019: den Outer, de Lange & Bosch 2020: NOT held because of COVID-19 2021: den Outer, de Lange & Souli

v t e Soling German Championship Winners

Fleet racing

1991 Schümann, Flach, Jäkel 1992  Netherlands Heiner 1993 J. Hermann 1994 Batzill, Lang 1995 Schümann, Flach, Jäkel 1996  Ukraine Pichuhin, Khaindrava, Korotkov 2002 Winkler, S. Wenzel, Niemann 2003 Winkler, S. Wenzel, H.Wenzel 2004 Winkler, S. Wenzel, Niemann 2005 Weigert, Scheel, Feller 2006 Koch, Koch, Bornemann 2007 R. Koch, M. Koch, Bornemann 2008 R. Koch, M. Koch, Bornemann 2009 Weigert, Scheel, Setzkorn 2010 K. Haist, I. Haist, Lindner 2011 K. Haist, I.Haist, Zeileis 2012 Weigert, Scheel, Setzkorn 2013 Steingroß, Eller, Giesecke 2014 K. Haist, I. Haist, Zeileis 2015 K. Haist, I. Haist, Zeileis 2016 Dietzel, Zeileis, Ramoser 2017 K. Haist, I. Haist, Zeileis 2018 K. Haist, I. Haist, Zeileis 2019  United States Collins, Baumüller  Germany, Strauch  Germany 2020 COVID-19 2021 COVID-19 2022 K. Haist, I. Haist, Zeileis

v t e <1984 1988 Dutch Olympic Sailing Team 1992>
Division II Male	Surfer: Bart Verschoor
Finn	Helmsman: Roy Heiner
470 Female	Helmsman: Henny Vegter Crew: Marion Bultman
470 Male	Helmsman: Robert Drontmann Crew: Mark Drontmann
Flying Dutchman	Helmsman: Henry Koning Crew: Hans Schelling
Tornado	Helmsman: Willy van Bladel Crew: Cees van Bladel
Star	Helmsman: Steven Bakker Crew: Kobus Vandenberg
Soling	No Dutch Representation
Substitutes	Division II Male: Paul Tellier 470 Female: Ester de Block van Kuffeler 470 Male/Flying Dutchman/Tornado: Guido Alkemade Finn/Star Peter Peet
Officials	Chef d'équipe: André du Pon Coach: Henri van der Aat
Team size	Female: 3 Male: 13 Officials: 2 Total: 18
Medals	: 0 : 0 : 0 Total: 0
Sources	"OLYMPISCHE PLOEG NAAR RECORDOMVANG". De Telegraaf (in Dutch). 1988-08-05. Retrieved 2014-01-21.

v t e <1988 1992 Dutch Olympic Sailing Team 1996>
Lechner A-390 Female	Surfer: Dorien de Vries
Lechner A-390 Male	Surfer: Stephan van den Berg
Europe Female	Helmsman: Martine van Leeuwen
Finn	No Dutch Representation
470 Female	No Dutch Representation
470 Male	Helmsman: Ben Kouwenhoven Crew: Jan Kouwenhoven
Flying Dutchman	Helmsman: Willem Potma Crew: Gerhard Potma
Tornado	Helmsman: Ron van Teylingen Crew: Paul Manuel
Star	Helmsman: Mark Neeleman Crew: Jos Schrier
Soling	Helmsman: Roy Heiner Crew: Peter Burggraaff Han Bergsma
Substitutes	Unknown
Officials	Chef d' équipe: Nick de Jong Coach: Jeroen Pels Equipment: Henk Tebbertman
Team size	Female: 2 Male: 12 Officials: 3 Total: 16
Medals	: 0 : 0 : 1 Total: 1
Sources	"Veertien zeilers naar Barcelona". Limburgsch dagblad (in Dutch). 1992-06-01. Retrieved 2014-02-01. "Assenaar klusjesman Olympische zeilploeg Op weg naar Barcelona". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden (in Dutch). 1992-07-17. Retrieved 2014-02-01.

v t e <1992 1996 Dutch Olympic Sailing Team 2000>
Mistral One Design Female	Surfer: Dorien de Vries
Mistral One Design Male	Surfer: Martijn van Geemen
Europe Female	Helmsman: Margriet Matthijsse
Laser	Helmsman: Serge Kats
Finn	Helmsman: Roy Heiner
470 Female	No Dutch Representation
470 Male	Helmsman: Ben Kouwenhoven Crew: Jan Kouwenhoven
Tornado	Helmsman: Ron van Teylingen Crew: Herbert Dercksen
Star	No Dutch Representation
Soling	Helmsman: Willem Potma Crew: Frank Hettinga Gerhard Potma
Substitutes	Unknown
Officials	Unknown
Team size	Female: 2 Male: 10 Officials: 0 Total: 12
Medals	: 0 : 1 : 1 Total: 2
Reference

v t e <1996 2000 Dutch Olympic Sailing Team 2004>
Mistral One Design Female	No Dutch Representation
Mistral One Design Male	No Dutch Representation
Europe Female	Helmsman: Margriet Matthijsse
Laser	Helmsman: Serge Kats
Finn	No Dutch Representation
470 Female	Helmsman: Carolijn Brouwer Crew: Alexandra Verbeek
470 Male	No Dutch Representation
Tornado	No Dutch Representation
Star	Helmsman: Mark Neeleman Crew: Jos Schrier
Soling	Helmsman: Roy Heiner Crew: Peter van Niekerk Dirk de Ridder
Substitutes	Unknown
Officials	Chef d' équipe: Kart Hut Coach: Jaap Zielhuis
Team size	Female: 2 Male: 7 Officials: 1 Total: 10
Medals	: 0 : 1 :0 Total: 1
Reference	"Jaarverslag KNWV 2000". Koninklijk Nederlands Watersport Verbond. Retrieved 2014-02-11.

• 1960 births
• Living people
• People from Matjhabeng Local Municipality
• Dutch male sailors (sport)
• Sailors at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Finn
• Sailors at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Soling
• Sailors at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Finn
• Sailors at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Soling
• Olympic sailors for the Netherlands
• Olympic medalists in sailing
• Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
• Volvo Ocean Race sailors
• Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
• Oracle Racing sailors
• 2003 America's Cup sailors
• Soling class sailors
• 20th-century Dutch sportsmen