Rufino Rodríguez de la Torre

Rufino Rodríguez de la Torre medal table
Rufino Rodríguez de la Torre (1956)
sailing
Argentina Argentina
Olympic games
silver	London 1948	6 meter class

Rufino Rodríguez de la Torre Newton (* December 2, 1900 ; † unknown) was an Argentine sailor .

successes

Rufino Rodríguez de la Torre took part in the Olympic Games three times . In 1936 he completed the regatta in the Düsternbrook Olympic harbor in Kiel in the 8-meter class as the skipper of the Argentine boat Matrero II in seventh place. At the 1948 Olympic Games in London , he was a crew member in the 6-meter class of the Argentinian boat Djinn , skippered by Enrique Sieburger senior . Sieburger senior and his crew, which included Rodríguez de la Torre, Emilio Homps , Rodolfo Rivademar , Julio Sieburger and Enrique Sieburger junior , won with 5120 points , behind the US Olympic champions around skipper Herman Whiton and ahead of the Swedish one led by Tore Holm Boot the silver medal. In 1952 in Helsinki , Rodríguez de la Torre, again a crew member of the 6-meter boat Djinn under skipper Sieburger, finished fifth with 3393 points.

Rufino Rodriguez de la Torre in the database of World Sailing (English)
Rufino Rodríguez de la Torre in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

personal data
SURNAME	Rodríguez de la Torre, Rufino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rodríguez de la Torre Newton, Rufino (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Argentine sailor
DATE OF BIRTH	December 2, 1900
DATE OF DEATH	in the 20th century