Fernando León

Fernando León medal table
sailing
Spain
Olympic games
gold	Atlanta 1996	tornado
World championships
gold	Båstad 1994	tornado
bronze	Kingston 1995	tornado
silver	Brisbane 1996	tornado
silver	Hamilton 1997	tornado
bronze	Búzios 1998	tornado

Fernando León Boissier (born May 28, 1966 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria ) is a former Spanish sailor .

successes

Fernando León took part in the Olympic Games four times . With Francisco Sánchez , he just missed a medal win in the 470 dinghy in 1988 in Seoul . In 1992 he started in Barcelona in Soling , with which he finished the competition in sixth place. Among his two crew members was Felipe VI. Four years later , he took first place in the Tornado boat class in Atlanta , after he and José Luis Ballester always finished among the top five boats in nine of the eleven races and finished second three times. They were Olympic champions with 30 points ahead of the Australian and Brazilian boats . The Sydney Olympics in 2000 ended León and Ballester in ninth place. At world championships , León and Ballester secured five joint medals: in 1994 they first won the title in Båstad , before winning two silver and two bronze medals each in the following four years.

Web links

• Fernando León in the database of World Sailing (English)
• Fernando León in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )