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.

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.

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.^[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
• 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 by Sebastiano Gastaldi	Flagbearer for  Argentina Tokyo 2020 with Cecilia Carranza	Succeeded by Francesca Baruzzi Franco Dal Farra