Alejandro Abascal
Appearance
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Full name | Alejandro Abascal García | ||||||||||||||
Born | Santander, Cantabria, Spain | 15 July 1952||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Alejandro Abascal García (born 15 July 1952) is a Spanish sailor and Olympic champion. He competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow and won a gold medal in the Flying Dutchman class, together with Miguel Noguer. This was Spain's third Olympic Gold Summer Medal, and their first since 1928.[1]
Previously, he was World champion in Vaurien in 1974 and Spanish Junior national champion in Snipe in 1971.
References
[edit]- ^ "Alejandro Abascal". SR/Olympic Sports. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 9 August 2009.
External links
[edit]- Alejandro Abascal at Olympedia
- Alejandro Abascal at the Spanish Olympic Committee (in Spanish)
Categories:
- 1952 births
- Sailors (sport) from Cantabria
- Living people
- Olympic gold medalists for Spain
- Olympic medalists in sailing
- Olympic sailors for Spain
- Sailors at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Flying Dutchman
- Sailors at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Flying Dutchman
- Sailors at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Flying Dutchman
- Spanish male sailors (sport)
- Snipe class sailors
- Vaurien class sailors
- Sportspeople from Santander, Spain
- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century Spanish people
- Spanish Olympic medalist stubs
- Spanish yacht racing biography stubs