Santiago Lange

Santiago Lange in 2008

Santiago Lange (born September 22, 1961 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine marine engineer and Olympic sailor .

Lange began sailing at the age of six, influenced by his father, who at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki who finished in fourth place. He studied shipbuilding at the University of Southampton on the south coast of England and began his sailing career after graduating. As an engineer, he builds the one-handed dinghy Optimist , an entry-level class for children and young people, which is produced in Argentina, Denmark and the USA .

Lange took part in six Summer Olympic Games : 1988 in Seoul , 1996 in Atlanta , 2000 in Sydney , 2004 in Athens , 2008 in Beijing and 2016 in Rio de Janeiro . In 2004 and 2008 he won the bronze medal in the Tornado class , the fastest Olympic sailing class to date, at the Agios Kosmas Olympic Sailing Center and the Qingdao International Sailing Center . His boat partner in both competitions was Carlos Mauricio Espínola , who had won two Olympic silver medals for Argentina in windsurfing in 1996 and 2000 . At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, Lange and his sailing partner Cecilia Carranza Saroli crowned himself the first Olympic champion in this boat class in the Nacra 17 class ( catamaran ) after surviving lung cancer .

Santiago Lange also won the sailing world championships four times: 1985, 1993, 1995 in the snipe class and then in 2004 in the tornado class. In the Nacra 17, he won silver in the 2014 World Cup and bronze in 2018 . In 2003 he was listed as No. 2 in the world rankings of the International Sailing Federation (ISAF). In 2016 he was named World Sailing of the Year by World Sailing .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} "A sailor's 5th Olympics after 40 years on the sea" ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Xinhua, July 28, 2008  
2. ↑ sailing.org: World Sailor

Web links

• Santiago Lange in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )