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Mike Gebhardt (Michael William Gebhardt) was born on 25 November, 1965 in Columbus, Ohio, U.S., is an American windsurfer. Discover Mike Gebhardt's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 58 years old?

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Age 58 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 25 November, 1965
Birthday 25 November
Birthplace Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1965

Michael William "Gebi" Gebhardt (born November 25, 1965) is a former professional and Olympic windsurfer from the United States, who competed in five consecutive Summer Olympics, in the Olympic sailing discipline/event of windsurfing.

He was born in Columbus, Ohio.

1981

In the summer of 1981, at the age of 15, Gebhardt learned to windsurf in his back yard in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.

Living on Okaloosa Islands waterfront, Gebi spent most of his adolescent days in the water; swimming, surfing, waterskiing, freediving, fishing and sailing Hobie beach cats and weekend cruising on his dad's 50 foot all wooden schooner sailboat, "The Pele".

When Gebi's younger brother Jon sailed home on a windsurfer, Gebhardt knew he had found the perfect wind and wave powered sport to take his love of the ocean to the next level.

1984

Gebi's Olympic Windsurfing career started in 1984, with the 17-year-old grom windsurfer finished 3rd in the 1984 L.A. US Olympic Trials.

Only the winner, Scott Steele earned the right to represent the US in the first ever Olympic Windsurfing Medal Event, which was now part of Olympic yachting for the first time in Olympic history.

Gebhardt was Scott Steele's- (1984 Olympic Windsurfing Silver medalist); training partner and was instrumental in Scott winning the US's first Olympic Windsurfing Medal.

In Los Angeles, Stephan van den Berg of the Netherlands won the Gold Medal and Bruce Kendall of New Zealand won the Bronze Medal.

"Gebi" as he is known to friends, competed in the 1984 Olympic Exhibition Windsurfing Event, which ran alongside the first ever Olympic windsurfing medal event.

Gebhardt finished 5th in the Olympic Exhibition event which showcased windsurfing's other disciplines, besides course racing; including slalom, long-distance racing and longboard freestyle on the original windsurfer brand board.

Gebi had to beat both the 1984 Olympic Gold Medalist, Stephan van den Berg and 1988 Olympic Gold Medalist (and 1984 Olympic Bronze Medalist) Bruce Kendall to secure his second Olympic Medal.

1988

At the 1988 US Olympic Trials, Gebhardt won the right to represent the US in the 1988 Seoul Korea Summer Olympics.

In a very stormy high wind regatta, Gebhardt survived 45 knot puffs in the last race to win his first Olympic Medal, a Bronze.

After the 1988 Olympics, Gebhardt turned Pro joiningh the PWA Tour(Professional Windsurfers Association) and competed in PWA World Cup events as a professional windsurfer worldwide.

Gebhardt, a consummate tweaker of gear, also ran hundreds of tech talk clinics and wrote technical "How To" coaching articles for multiple Windsurfing magazines (educating the masses of poleboarders) when not testing/developed windsurfing gear for his sponsors and enjoyed helping to modernize the sports equipment through constant innovation.

1992

In Gebhardt's third Olympics, the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics, winning the regatta going into the last race, Gebi ended up losing the Gold Medal by .4 of a point!!, to reigning World Champion Franck David of France, ultimately winning his second Olympic Medal, a Silver Medal.

1996

Gebhardt competed in two more Olympics, the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics, finishing 6th, having two bad races is all it takes to not medal;as well as his last Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia's 2000 Summer Olympics, where he finished 11th and at the time being the oldest competitor at 34 in a physically grueling sport.

Gebhardt, one of the most decorated American windsurfers of all time, competed in over 310 competitions in over 60 countries worldwide, amassing a sizable pile of bling; including 6 World Championship Titles, 23 National Championship Titles, Pan Am Games- Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals, scoring over 200 wins in regattas and contests in racing, slalom and freestyle... and holds the World Record for kiting across from Ft. Lauderdale, FL to Bimini Island in the Bahamas covering over 60 mile of rough open ocean in 3.5 hours while kiteboarding with teammate Kent Marinkovich.

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2000

Olympic Windsurf Coaching: After retiring from his 5th Olympics in 2000, Gebi started his Olympic Windsurf coaching career, culminating in coaching Olympic Gold Medalist Gal Fridman, Israel's only Olympic Gold Medalist, at the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Gebhardt has coached Olympic athletes from more than 25 countries.

2005

Olympic Kiting legacy: Elite Kite coaching since 2005, Gebhardt was politically instrumental in bringing kitesurfing into the Olympic family, campaigning with the likes or Richard Branson and Bill Tai to entice the IOC (International Olympic Committee) into putting Kitesurfing into the Summer Olympic Games and Youth Olympic Games.

Men's and women's Olympic Kite Racing will debut as a Summer Olympic Sailing Medal event in the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, where kite foil racing will be the discipline, raced in Marseille, France.

Coach Gebi, a pro level kiter himself, has mentored and coached dozens of aspiring pro and Olympic kitesurfers: including World Speed Record holder Robbie Douglas to multiple world championship titles in kitesurfing and breaking/holding Sailing's Outright World Speed Record.

2008

Olympic WIndsurfing legacy: Known for being one of the most technical coaches in Windsurfing and Kiting, Gebhardt's Olympic Windsurfing legacy includes developing, testing and overseeing the selection of the 2008 Olympic Windsurf Equipment and rig for World Sailing.

The new kit called the "Windsurfing RSX" built by Neil Pryde, has been used in Olympic Windsurfing since the 2008 Summer Olympics.

The Olympic RSX equipment was used from the 2008 Olympics up to its last appearance in the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics.

Currently men's and Women's Olympic Windsurfing equipment will switch to the incredibly fast and high performance iQ Foil windsurf foil kit at the 2024 Olympics.

Gebhardt competed in the first ever "X Games" has been a guest on the LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN SHOW and was a guest athlete on MTV Sports show with Pamela Anderson and honored to be photographed by Annie Liebovitz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Leibovitz

2018

In kite foilboard racing coach Gebhardt has coached World Champions Daniela Moroz and Nico Parlier, besides coaching 2 athletes at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Kitesurfing Twin Tip Racing- USA's Cameron Maramenides finished 4th and Antigua's Tiger Tyson who finished 5th.

Gebhardt also prepared Youth Olympic Silver Medalist, the Philippines Christian Tio and also supported Dominican Republic's Youth Olympic Gold Medalist Deury Corniel.

Gebhardt currently helps a

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