Santiago Lange

Santiago Lange is an Argentine Olympic sailor and naval architect, born on 22 September 1961 in San Isidro, who competed in seven Summer Olympics over a span of 32 years and won one gold and two bronze medals, all in multi-hull classes. He took bronze in the Tornado in 2004 and 2008 and gold in the Nacra 17 with Cecilia Carranza at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, after surgery in 2015 to remove part of a lung because of cancer. A four-time world champion, he won the Snipe class in 1985, 1993 and 1995 and the Tornado class in 2004. He has twice sailed the Volvo Ocean Race, was a member of the Artemis Racing challenge for the 34th America's Cup, and was named World Sailing Sailor of the Year in 2016.