Santiago Lange
Santiago Raúl Lange is an Argentine Olympic sailor and a naval architect.
Lange competed in six editions of the Summer Olympics representing Argentina in: 1988, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2016. He obtained two bronze medals in the category Tornado along with teammate Carlos Espínola and the gold medal in the category Nacra 17 alongside Cecilia Carranza Saroli in 2016.
He is 4 times World Champion, with 3 Snipe World Championships and 1 Tornado World Championship, twice runner-up in 1987 and 2006, and 3 times third place in 1979, 2003 and 2018.
He also won the silver medal at the 1987 Pan American Games and the 1995 Pan American Games.
In 1985 he won the Snipe South American Championship.
He has twice sailed the Volvo Ocean Race; in 2001–02 on Team SEB and in 2008–09 on Telefónica Black.
He sailed for Victory Challenge in the 2007 Louis Vuitton Cup. Santiago Lange was a member of Artemis Racing, the Swedish Challenger for the 34th America's Cup.
Lange's sons Yago and Klaus are also Olympic sailors.
In 2016, he was named Sailor of the Year by World Sailing.
