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Gary Jobson
Alma materToms River High School South
Occupation(s)Retired racing sailor, television commentator, book author
SpouseJanice Jobson
Children3

Gary Jobson is a retired racing sailor, television commentator, and author based in Annapolis, Maryland, and a former vice president of the International Sailing Federation. Jobson has authored 19 sailing books and is editor-at-large of Sailing World and Cruising World magazines. He is currently president of the National Sailing Hall of Fame.

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Raised in Toms River, New Jersey,[1] Jobson graduated from Toms River High School (now Toms River High School South) in 1969 and was inducted into the school district's hall of fame in 1990.[2]

While attending college at SUNY Maritime, he won the Men's Singlehanded National Championship in 1972 and 1973 and the Sloop National Championship in 1973. He was an All-American sailor three times, and was twice named College Sailor of the Year.[citation needed]

Jobson covered the 34th America's Cup for NBC. In 1988 he won an Emmy for his production of sailing at the Olympic Games in South Korea and later an Emmy for the 2005–06 Volvo Ocean Race on PBS.[citation needed]

He has won many championships, the America's Cup with Ted Turner, the Fastnet Race, and many of the world's ocean races.[3]

He was a tactician for Ted Turner on Courageous during the 1977 America's Cup and also during the 1980 defender trials. In 1983, he was the founder and tactician of the Courageous/Defender syndicate.[clarification needed][4]

Jobson was inducted into the National Sailing Hall of Fame (2011)[5] and the America's Cup Hall of Fame (2003) by the Herreshoff Marine Museum. In 1999 he won the Nathanael G. Herreshoff Trophy, US Sailing's most prestigious award.[citation needed]

Jobson has been the National Chairman of the Leukemia Cup Regatta program since 1994. These events have raised over $50 million to date.[when?] In 2012 the University of Maryland Medical School established the Gary Jobson Professorship in Medical Oncology. Jobson was named a Doctor of Letters from the State University of New York Maritime College in 2005 and a Doctor of Human Letters from Lakeland College in 2013.[citation needed] He was president of US Sailing (2009-2012).[6]

In 2021, Jobson was NBC's official commentator for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Sailing events.[7] He reprised this role at the 2024 Paris Olympics.[8]

Jobson is a lymphoma survivor.[9]

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  1. ^ Wallace, William N. "Patience of Dobson May Be the Key To Turner's Success at Cup Trials", The New York Times, July 31, 1977. Accessed November 22, 2017. "Gary Jobson, a 27‐year‐old teacher of sailing from Toms River, N.J.. has the stickiest job of all among the 77 sailors competing for the America's Cup here this summer."
  2. ^ Hall of Fame: Gary A. Jobson, Toms River Regional Schools. Accessed November 22, 2017. "Toms River High School Class of 1969; Inducted in 1990"
  3. ^ "The Maryland State Athletic Hall of Fame Turns 60". Baltimore Magazine. 2016-10-26. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
  4. ^ "Herreshoff Marine Museum & America's Cup Hall of Fame". www.herreshoff.org. Archived from the original on 2009-11-29.
  5. ^ "Gary Jobson 2011 Inductee". Nshof.org. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
  6. ^ "Gary Jobson to be nominated as next US Sailing president". www.sail-world.com. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
  7. ^ "RECORD 180 COMMENTATORS JOIN NBC OLYMPICS' COVERAGE OF THE GAMES OF THE XXXII OLYMPIAD FROM TOKYO, JAPAN". NBC Sports Pressbox. 20 July 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-07-29. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  8. ^ "Hall of Fame sailor, NBC commentator Gary Jobson previews Olympic sailing". 18 July 2024. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  9. ^ "Vanity Fair Nominates Gary Jobson". Vanity Fair. 2008-10-14. Retrieved 2024-01-18.
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