Alejandro Abascal

Alejandro Abascal medal table
sailing
Spain Spain
Olympic games
gold	Moscow 1980	Flying Dutchman
World championships
bronze	Hayling Island 1978	Flying Dutchman
silver	Kiel 1979	Flying Dutchman

Alejandro Tomás Abascal García (born July 15, 1952 in Santander ) is a former Spanish sailor .

successes

Alejandro Abascal took part in three Olympic Games in the Flying Dutchman boat class . With José María Benavides he finished seventh in his Olympic debut in Montreal in 1976 , before he achieved his greatest success four years later at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow . Together with Miguel Noguer , he won three of the total of seven races and, thanks to three further placements among the top four, he was already the Olympic champion with 19 total points before the final seventh race . They received the gold medal ahead of David Wilkins and James Wilkinson from Ireland and the Hungarian brothers Szabólcs and Zsolt Detre . Also in 1984 in Los Angeles Abascal and Noguer formed a sailing team, but did not get past eleventh place in this regatta. At world championships , he and Noguer won bronze medals in Hayling Island in 1978 and the silver medal the following year in Kiel .

From 1996 to 2015 he was sports director at the Spanish sailing association Real Federación Española de Vela . In October 2015 he became the technical director of the Spanish Olympic team.

Web links

Alejandro Abascal in the database of World Sailing (English)
Alejandro Abascal in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Alejandro Abascal at the Comité Olímpico Español (Spanish)

Individual evidence

↑ Guillem Ruisánchez: Julia Casanueva fulmina a Jan Abascal en el CEAR de Vela. In: elfaradio.com. October 10, 2015, accessed March 18, 2020 (Spanish).
↑ Marcos Menocal: Casanueva saca a Jan Abascal del CEAR y le coloca al frente de la formación de los olímpicos. In: eldiariomontanes.es. October 10, 2015, accessed March 18, 2020 (Spanish).

personal data
SURNAME	Abascal, Alejandro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Abascal García, Alejandro Tomás (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish sailor
DATE OF BIRTH	July 15, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH	Santander , Spain

[1] Guillem Ruisánchez: Julia Casanueva fulmina a Jan Abascal en el CEAR de Vela. In: elfaradio.com. October 10, 2015, accessed March 18, 2020 (Spanish).

[2] Marcos Menocal: Casanueva saca a Jan Abascal del CEAR y le coloca al frente de la formación de los olímpicos. In: eldiariomontanes.es. October 10, 2015, accessed March 18, 2020 (Spanish).