Oscar Galíndez

Oscar Galíndez is an Argentine triathlete born on 5 June 1971 in Río Tercero, Córdoba. He started in triathlon at sixteen, won the Trofeu Brasil de Triatlo hexa-championship and the 1995 Duathlon World Championship, and moved to Brazil in 1995 because training and racing conditions there were better than in Argentina. He competed in the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics and finished 28th in 1:50:59.48. He won Pan American Games bronze medals in triathlon in 1995 and 2003, took silver at the 2007 Ironman World Championship, was named best athlete of Córdoba province for 1994, and was ranked among the top 100 Argentine athletes of all time by the Konex Foundation in 2010. He also founded the sportswear brand OG Design.