Carlos de Cardenas Culmell
| Carlos de Cárdenas Culmell medal table |
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 Cuba
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 Olympic games
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| silver | London 1948 | star |
 Sailing world championships
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| bronze | Great South Bay 1943 | star |
| gold | Cascais 1954 | star |
| gold | Havana 1955 | star |
Carlos Teodor de Cárdenas Culmell (born January 2, 1904 in Havana , † September 24, 1994 in Miami , United States ) was a Cuban sailor .
successes
Carlos de Cárdenas Culmell took part in the Olympic Games three times . At the Olympic Games in London in 1948 , he won the silver medal in the star boat with his son Carlos de Cárdenas Plá . They scored 4849 points and finished the competition behind the father-son duo Hilary and Paul Smart from the United States and ahead of the Dutch Bob Maas and Edward Stutterheim in second place. In 1952 in Helsinki, however , the two just missed another medal win as fourth. Four years later , Carlos de Cárdenas entered the regatta in Melbourne in the star boat with his younger son Jorge , with whom he finished sixth.
In 1954 in Cascais and 1955 in Havana, Carlos de Cárdenas Culmell and his son Carlos de Cárdenas Plá were both world champions in the star boat . As early as 1943 he won the bronze medal at the world championship in the star boat in the Great South Bay in New York .
Web links
- Carlos de Cárdenas Culmell in the database of World Sailing (English)
- Carlos de Cárdenas Culmell in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Cárdenas Culmell, Carlos de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cárdenas Culmell, Carlos Teodor de (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Cuban sailor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 2, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Havana , Cuba |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 24, 1994 |
| Place of death | Miami , United States |