Santiago Lange
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Full name | Santiago Raúl Lange | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | San Isidro |
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Santiago Raúl Lange (born September 22, 1961 in San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine Olympic sailor and a naval engineer.
Lange has competed in five editions of the Olympic Games, in 1988, 1996, 2000 and 2004. He won bronze in the latter in the Tornado class, along with teammate Carlos Espínola. He also represented represent Argentina again at the 2008 Summer Olympics, winning a bronze medal. Lange has also won the World Championships on four occasions, in 1985, 1993, 1995 and 2004.[1]
He is also a 4-times World Champion, with 3 Snipe World Championships (1985, 1993 and 1995) and 1 Tornado World Championship (2004), twice runner-up in 1987 (Snipe) and 2006 (Tornado), and third place in 2003 (Tornado).
He also won silver medals at the 1987 Pan American Games and the 1983 Pan American Games and bronze at the 1995 Pan American Games.
His father had competed at the 1952 Olympics, finishing fourth in his event.[1]
Santiago Lange is a member of Artemis Racing, the Swedish Challenger for the 34th America's Cup.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "A sailor's 5th Olympics after 40 years on the sea", Xinhua, July 28, 2008
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