Santiago Lange

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

Lange began sailing at the age of six years, influenced by his father, who had occupied fourth place in Helsinki in the summer Olympics in 1952. At the University of Southampton on the south coast, he studied shipbuilding and after studying his sailing career. As an engineer, he builds single-handed sailing dinghy Optimist, an entry-level class for children and adolescents, which is produced in Argentina, Denmark and the USA.

Long attended five Summer Olympics in part: 1988 in Seoul, 1996 Atlanta, 2000 Sydney, 2004 Athens and 2008 in Beijing. In the last two games he won the bronze medal in the Tornado class, the previously fastest Olympic sailing class in Agios Kosmas Olympic Sailing Centre and the International Sailing Center in Qingdao. His boat partner was in both competitions Carlos Mauricio Espínola, who won two Olympic silver medals for Argentina in 1996 and 2000 in windsurfing.

Santiago Lange also won four times the sailing world championships: 1985, 1993, 1995 in the Snipeklasse and then in 2004 in the Tornado class. In 2003 he was listed as No. 2 in the world rankings of the International Sailing Federation (ISAF ).

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