Santiago Lange

Santiago Raúl Lange (born September 22, 1961 in San Isidro, Argentina) is an Argentine Olympic sailor and a naval architect.

He studied Naval Architecture at Southampton College of Higher Education (now known as Solent University) he did a degree in yacht design. He went on to work for Argentina designer German Frers for a couple of years before concentrating on competitive sailing.^[1]

Representing Argentina over a 32-year period, he competed seven times in the Summer Olympics, winning a gold and two bronze medals.

He qualified to represent Argentina at the 2020 Summer Olympics.^[2] He was one of Argentina's flag bearers for the opening ceremony at the 2020 Olympic Games.^[3]

He is a four-time World Champion, with 3 Snipe World Championships (1985, 1993 and 1995) and 1 Tornado World Championship (2004), twice runner-up in 1987 (Snipe) and 2006 (Tornado), and three times third place in 1979 (Cadet), 2003 (Tornado) and 2018 (Nacra 17).^[4]

He has twice sailed the Volvo Ocean Race; in 2001–02 on Team SEB and in 2008–09 on Telefónica Black .^{[5] [6]}

He sailed for Victory Challenge in the 2007 Louis Vuitton Cup.

For the 34th America's Cup was a member of Artemis Racing the Swedish Challenger.^[7]

He also won the silver medal at the 1987 Pan American Games (Snipe) and the 1995 Pan American Games (Laser).

In 1985, he won the Snipe South American Championship.

In 2016, he was named Sailor of the Year by World Sailing.

Lange's sons Yago and Klaus are who are also Olympic sailors.^[8]

One of the most remarkable things is that in 2015 following a repeatable illness, he was diagnosed with cancer in his lung, which required 25% removal of one of his lungs^{[9] [10]} he battled back quickly to take gold despite the loss of fitness and time on the water so close to the games in which he won gold.

• "A sailor's 5th Olympics after 40 years on the sea". xinhuanet. Xinhua, July 28, 2008. Archived from the original on October 21, 2012.

• official website
• Santiago Lange at World Sailing Edit on Wikidata
• Santiago Lange at World Sailing (archived)Edit on Wikidata
• Santiago Lange at Olympics.com Edit on Wikidata
• Santiago Lange at the Argentine Olympic Committee (in Spanish)Edit on Wikidata
• Santiago Lange at the Argentine Olympic Committee (in Spanish)Edit on Wikidata

• 1961 births
• Living people
• Alumni of Southampton Solent University
• Argentine people of German descent
• Argentine male sailors (sport)
• Artemis Racing sailors
• Club Náutico San Isidro
• Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
• Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
• Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
• Olympic bronze medalists for Argentina
• Olympic gold medalists for Argentina
• Olympic medalists in sailing
• Olympic sailors for Argentina
• Sailors at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Soling
• Sailors at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Laser
• Sailors at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Tornado
• Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Tornado
• Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Tornado
• Sailors at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Nacra 17
• Sailors at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Nacra 17
• Pan American Games silver medalists for Argentina
• Pan American Games bronze medalists for Argentina
• Sailors (sport) from Buenos Aires
• Tornado class world champions
• Open Snipe class world champions
• World champions in sailing for Argentina
• ISAF World Sailor of the Year (male)
• Pan American Games medalists in sailing
• 2013 America's Cup sailors
• 2007 America's Cup sailors
• Volvo Ocean Race sailors
• Extreme Sailing Series sailors
• Sailors at the 1983 Pan American Games
• Sailors at the 1987 Pan American Games
• Sailors at the 1995 Pan American Games
• Medalists at the 1987 Pan American Games
• Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games
• Sportspeople from San Isidro, Buenos Aires
• 20th-century Argentine sportsmen
• 21st-century Argentine sportsmen

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