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Alexander Hagen

German yacht racer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ4719039 ↗
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Alexander Hagen (born 1 January 1955 in Lübeck) is a German sailor. He won the world championship in the Star class in 1981 and 1997. He also won 7 Continental Championships (silver stars) and the European Championship in OK-Dinghy in 1975.

Hagen competed at the 1988 and 2004 Olympics. He invented a mathematical formula that limits the crew weight in the Star class.

References

Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Alexander Hagen". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1955, 1981, 1997, 1975—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Alexander, Hagen and German is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Alexander Hagen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.