Miguel Seijas

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Miguel Seijas , full name Miguel Ángel Seijas Cuestas , (born May 20, 1930 in Montevideo ) is a former Uruguayan rower .

Seijas was a member of the Montevideo Rowing Club . He was a member of the Uruguayan squad at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki . At the Games in Finland on July 23, 1952, he won the bronze medal in a rowing double scull alongside Juan Rodríguez, behind the Olympic champions Tranquilo Cappozzo and Eduardo Guerrero from Argentina and the second-placed boat of the Soviet Union with Georgi Schilin and Igor Jemtschuk . He also took part in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne . There he also started in a double scull with Paulo Carvalho . The Uruguayan duo was eliminated in the hope race on Lake Wendouree when they had to admit defeat to the Germans Thomas Schneider and Kurt Hipper , who were fourth at the end of the competition .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historia. In: www.montevideorowing.com. Archived from the original on January 25, 2014 ; Retrieved January 3, 2015 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ Miguel Seijas in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ), accessed on January 3, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Seijas, Miguel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seijas Cuestas, Miguel Ángel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan rower
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo , Uruguay