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Adriana Kostiw
Adriana Kostiw (born 16 March 1974, in São Paulo) is a Brazilian sports sailor. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's Laser Radial class, Women's Laser Radial class, finishing in 25th place. References External links * * * 1974 births Living people Brazilian female sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for Brazil Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – 470 Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Laser Radial Pan American Games bronze medalists for Brazil Pan American Games medalists in sailing Sailors at the 2007 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games Sportspeople from São Paulo {{Brazil-yachtracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sailing (sport)
The sport of sailing involves a variety of competitive sailing formats that are sanctioned through various sailing federations and yacht clubs. Racing disciplines include matches within a fleet of sailing craft, between a pair thereof or among teams. Additionally, there are specialized competitions that include setting speed records. Racing formats include both closed courses and point-to-point contests; they may be in sheltered waters, coast-wise or on the open ocean. Most competitions are held within defined classes or ratings that either entail one type of sailing craft to ensure a contest primarily of skill or rating the sailing craft to create classifications or handicaps. On water, a sailing competition among multiple vessels is a regatta, which usually consists of multiple individual races, where the boat crew that performs best in over the series of races is the overall winner. There is a broad variety of kinds of races and sailboats used for racing from large yacht to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
