Pär Nyman is a Swedish sailor and a doctor by profession. He trained young in the Navy's youth corps and later worked as a sailing instructor. He has owned an Albin Vega 26 and an Olle Enderlein 32, and has sailed the ARC and other passages with friends.
In July 2025 he bought the Rustler 36 Lazy Otter, a boat that had entered both previous editions of the Golden Globe Race. His qualifying passage covered 2,123 miles in 16 days, going to Fair Isle and Iceland and back.
He started the 2026 Golden Globe Race from Les Sables d'Olonne on 6 September 2026. Soon after the start he returned to port after losing a rigging component overboard, and later found a rudder problem.
