Alfred Loomis (sailor)

Alfred Loomis

Medal record
Men's sailing
Representing the  United States
Olympic Games
	1948 London	6 metre class

Alfred L. Loomis, Jr. (April 15, 1913 – September 7, 1994) was a pioneering investment banker and an American sailor and Olympic champion. He won the Bermuda race twice. In 1977, he was manager of the Independence-Courageous syndicate, the yachting team that successfully defended the America's Cup that year.

He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, where he won a gold medal in the 6 metre class with the boat Uanoria, together with Herman Whiton, James Smith, Michael Mooney, who later married his daughter, Nancy, and James Weekes.^[1]

He graduated from Harvard University in 1935^[2] and from Harvard Law School in 1939.^[3]

Family

He was the son of Alfred Lee Loomis and Elizabeth Ellen Farnsworth. He was married to the late Virginia Davis and has three daughters, Nancy Chance, of Austerlitz, N.Y.; Sabra Loomis, of New York City, and Candace Lake DiLello, of Ross, CA; a son, Alfred L. "Chip" Loomis, III, of New York City; a brother, the late Henry Loomis, of Jacksonville, Fla.; and five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.^[3]

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