Marcelo Ferreira

Marcelo Ferreira medal table
Marcelo Ferreira (2006)
sailing
Brazil
Olympic games
gold	Atlanta 1996	star
bronze	Sydney 2000	star
gold	Athens 2004	star
World championships
gold	Cleveland 1990	star
silver	Cannes 1991	star
bronze	San Diego 1994	star
silver	Laredo 1995	star
bronze	Rio de Janeiro 1996	star
gold	Marblehead 1997	star
silver	Portorož 1998	star
silver	Marina del Rey 2002	star
silver	Buenos Aires 2005	star
bronze	Rio de Janeiro 2010	star

Marcelo Bastos Ferreira (born September 26, 1965 in Niterói ) is a former Brazilian sailor .

successes

Marcelo Ferreira took part in four Olympic Games with Torben Grael in the Star boat class . The two first occupied in 1992 in Barcelona , first to eleventh place before four years on the regatta in Atlanta finished in first place. With 25 points, they became Olympic champions ahead of the Swedish and Australian boats . At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 , they managed to jump into the medal ranks again with third place. Also in 2004 in Athens were successful Ferreira and Grael: before the final eleventh race they stood as Olympic champion firm and won the regatta with 42 total points.

At world championships Ferreira won a total of ten medals between 1990 and 2010, nine of them with Torben Grael. In 1990 they became world champions together in Cleveland , and they also secured five silver and three bronze medals. In 1997 he competed with Alexander Hagen and became world champion in Marblehead with him . In 1989, 1991 and 2003 he won the title at the open European championships with Torben Grael.

In the Volvo Ocean Race 2005-2006 he was a crew member of the Brasil 1 team , which finished third.

Web links

Commons : Marcelo Ferreira  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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