Career
With crew Pieter Keijzer and Harald de Vlaming Bakker took the 5th place in the Soling. Since in 1980 The Netherlands did boycott the Moscow Olympic Games Bakker again in the Soling represented his National Olympic Committee under the Dutch NOC flag. From 1976 till 1979 Geert was president of the International Soling Association.
After a brain stroke in 1983 he specialized in judging.
Several countries did boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics, others like France did not go since they found the competition devaluated. As result only half of the expected fleet was present during the Olympic regattas.
lieutenant was the effort of Bakker and Ben Staartjes that the Dutch Olympic Sailing Team went to Talinn.