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Full name | James Peter Jaffe | ||||||||||||||
Nationality | Great Britain | ||||||||||||||
Born | 22 November 1913 Richmond, Greater London, Great Britain | ||||||||||||||
Died | 20 August 1982 Orange, California, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Sailing | ||||||||||||||
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James Peter Jaffe (22 November 1913 – 20 August 1982, in Orange, California) was a British competitive sailor and Olympic medalist.[1][2]
He won a silver medal in the Star class mixed two-person keelboat at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, at the age of 18.[3][4][5]
Jaffe was Jewish, and was born in Richmond, in Greater London.[4][6][7]