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Santiago Lange

Personal information
Full name	Santiago Raúl Lange
Born	(1961-09-22) 22 September 1961 (age 63) San Isidro, Argentina
Sailing career
Club	Club Náutico San Isidro
College team	Solent University
Competition record Sailing Representing  Argentina Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Nacra 17 2004 Athens Tornado 2008 Beijing Tornado World Championships 1985 Buenos Aires Snipe 1993 Porto Alegre Snipe 1995 Rimini Snipe 2004 Palma de Mallorca Tornado 1987 La Rochelle Snipe 2006 San Isidro Tornado 2014 Santander Nacra 17 1979 Torquay Cadet 2003 Cádiz Tornado 2018 Aarhus Nacra 17 Pan American Games 1987 Indianapolis Snipe 1995 Mar del Plata Laser

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

Sailing career

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.

Olympics

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

Pos.	Games	Class	Crew	Notes	Ref.
9	1988 - Busan (KOR)	Soling	Pedro Ferrero Raúl Lena
9	1996 - Savannah (USA)	Laser	N/A
10	2000 - Sydney (AUS)	Tornado	Mariano Parada
Bronze	2004 - Athens (GRE)	Tornado	Carlos Espínola
Bronze	2008 - Qingdao (CHN)	Tornado	Carlos Espínola
Gold	2016 - Rio (BRA)	Nacra 17	Cecilia Carranza
7	2020 - Enoshima (JPN)	Nacra 17 Foiling	Cecilia Carranza

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

World Championships

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).

Offshore Sailing

He has twice sailed the Volvo Ocean Race; in 2001–02 on Team SEB and in 2008–09 on Telefónica Black.

America Cup

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.

Other Events

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.

Awards

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

Personal life

Lange's sons Yago and Klaus are who are also Olympic sailors.

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 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.

References

1. Lange, Santiago (22 April 2021). "Chapter 3". Wind: The Journey of My Life Hardcover. PANTAURO. ISBN 9783710550096.
2. "Sailing-Five to watch at the Tokyo Olympics". Reuters. 2021-06-24. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
3. "Santiago Lange and Cecilia Carranza will be the Argentine flag bearers at the Olympic Games". Market Research Telecast. 2021-06-23. Archived from the original on 2021-06-27. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
4. "Santiago Lange: Snipe World Champion to Gold Medal Winner". 17 August 2016.
5. "Crew Changes All Around". 8 November 2001.
6. Myant-Best, Niall (14 July 2020). "Off Watch - A Conversation with Santiago Lange". YouTube. The Ocean Race. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
7. "Artemis Racing".
8. Sartori, Hernán (August 18, 2016). "Hijos de tigre: Yago y Klaus Lange". Clarín. Retrieved September 18, 2016.
9. Series 2 - Ep8 - Olympic Stories Part 2.
10. "Santiago Lange fights back after cancer battle".

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

External links

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

Olympic Games
Preceded bySebastiano Gastaldi	Flagbearer for  Argentina Tokyo 2020 with Cecilia Carranza	Succeeded byFrancesca Baruzzi Franco Dal Farra

• 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