Alejandro Foglia

José Alejandro Foglia Costa ( born January 30, 1984 in Montevideo) is an Uruguayan sailors.

The 1.89 meter tall, Chino called athletes completed his school education at the German School in Montevideo. Foglia comes from the Barrio Parque Rodó montevideanischen and studied physical education at the Instituto Superior de Educación Física. He started at the age of seven years with the sailing. Three years later he took part in his first competition. His first boat was one of the Optimist class. The brother of the sailors Andrea Foglia and Mariana Foglia is a member of the Yacht Club Punta del Este. His laser trainer is Luis Chiapparro. For Foglias physique Oscar Gadea is responsible. In 1996 he made ​​his international debut at the Optimist South American Championship in Ecuador.

In the South America Championship 1998 in Cartagena he achieved a 3rd place with the team in the Optimist class. In the same year he was also the Uruguayan team squad for the South American Games in 1998. Moreover, he went into this competition division at two world championships and a total of four South Championships at the start. In the Snipe class, he was ninth at the Junior World Championships in Spain, third in the Junior Americas Championships and has also been more than 25 international competitions sailed in this boat class. In 2002 he again took part in the South American Games, a podium, he did not reach there, however.

After he was second in the 2005 Campeonato Hemisferio, he won it the following year. The Argentine Championship of 2006, he finished as runner-up. In the same year he was a member of the Uruguayan contingent in South America Games in 2006. The Pan American Games in 2007 in Rio de Janeiro, he finished on a sixth. In that year he exhibited at the Melbourne World Championships staged in 22nd place in the ranking and was fourth in the Americas Championship in Mar del Plata.

Also, the multiple Uruguayan master took (2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007) Foglia already at the 2004 Summer Olympics in part. There he finished second in the Finn dinghy class and No. 34 at the Olympic Games in 2008, he was again for Uruguay at the start and also acted as standard-bearer of the Uruguayan Olympic Team. In Beijing, he finished 17th place. Foglia was also participants in the Laser Standard class at the aligned in Montevideo and Punta del Este beach - I. South America Play 2010. Also at the South America Games 2010 in Medellín, he took part.

Foglia was again part of the banns of the Uruguayan team at the Pan American Games and 2011 for the Summer Olympic Games in 2012. In London he started in Laser competition. There he exceeded projections and expectations, secured with a second place in the medal race in the final eighth place, reaching the Olympic diploma. At the same time he was the best Latin Americans in this competition. Then his sister also participated at the Olympic Games in London, was represented after 1936 ( Miro Baldo and Gabriel Benquet ) and 2004 (Paul and Martín Kutscher ) a pair of siblings in Uruguay's team for the third time in the Olympic history of the country.

Awards

  • 2000-2001: Premio Charrúa

Achievements

  • Uruguayan champion: 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007
  • Winner of Campeonato Hemisferio: 2006
Snipe (dinghy) 2007 Pan American Games Finn (dinghy) Uruguay at the 2011 Pan American Games El Observador (Uruguay)
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