Jorge Salas Chavez

Jorge Salas Chavez
Nationality:	Argentina
Birthday:	July 17, 1914
Place of birth:	Avellaneda
Size:	170 cm
Weight:	72 kg
Boat classes:	Dragons
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 0 × Pan American Games 2 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver Rome 1960 Dragons Pan American Games gold Chicago 1959 Dragons gold São Paulo 1963 Dragons

Jorge Alberto Salas Chávez (born July 17, 1914 in Avellaneda , † unknown) was an Argentine sailor .

successes

Jorge Salas Chávez took part in five Olympic Games in the dragon boat class . In 1948 he took seventh place in his Olympic debut at the regatta taking place in Torquay , while alongside Jorge del Río Salas he was a crew member of the Argentine boat Pampero, led by del Río Salas' brother-in-law Roberto Sieburger . Eight years later he just missed a medal win in Melbourne as the skipper of Pampero in fourth. At the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 he was the skipper of the Tango , whose crew consisted of del Río Salas and Héctor Calegaris . With the Tango they finished second with 5715 points, only eleven points ahead of the Italian boat Venilia , and thus won the silver medal. The Greeks in the Nirefs became Olympic champions .

With Calegaris and del Río Salas, Salas Chavez had already won the gold medal a year earlier at the Pan American Games in Chicago . At the Pan American Games in São Paulo in 1963 , Salas Chavez won another gold medal in the kite with Rodolfo Rivademar and Fernando Sanjurjo . At the Olympic Regatta in Tokyo in 1964 , however, he only finished tenth with the Tango . His crew again included del Río Salas and Rodolfo Rivademar. When he last participated in the Olympics , Salas Chavez did not get past 23rd and last place.

Jorge Salas Chávez was the nephew of the Olympic sailor Julio Sieburger .

Web links

• Jorge Salas Chávez in the database of World Sailing (English)
• Jorge Salas Chávez in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )