Édgar Diminich (born April 29, 1991) is a world class
sailor
A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a person who works aboard a watercraft as part of its crew, and may work in any one of a number of different fields that are related to the operation and maintenance of a ship.
The profession of the s ...
from
Ecuador
Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...
.
He began sailing
Optimists and became Southamerican champion in 2004 when he was 12 years old. Two years later, in 2006, he won the bronze medal at the Optimist World Championship.
Next, he was the
Laser Radial
The Laser Radial or ILCA 6 is a popular one-design class of small sailing dinghy, originally built by Laser Performance. It is a singlehanded boat, meaning that it is sailed by one person. The Laser Radial is a variant of the Laser standard, ...
Cressy Champion in Florida in 2008, the Laser National Champion in Ecuador in 2009, and he placed 4th in the Laser South Americans in Brazil in 2010.
In 2012 he won the
Snipe North American Championship as a crew of
Raúl RÃos
Raúl Andrés RÃos de Choudens (born 3 December 1993 in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico), is a world class sailor in the Optimist, Snipe, and Lightning classes.
He began sailing Optimists at the age of ten at the Club Náutico de San Juan, and became ...
and in 2016 he won the
Snipe Western Hemisphere & Orient Championship as a skipper, with Jaime Flores. In 2016, he also was second at the
Sunfish Worlds.
Sunfish Worlds
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Bolivarian Games
* Gold medal at Sucre 2009 in Sunfish.
* Gold medal at Trujillo 2013 in Snipe with Juan José Ferretti RamÃrez.
Bolivarian Beach Games
* Bronze medal at Lima 2012 in Snipe with Juan José Ferretti RamÃrez.
* Silver medal at Huanchaco 2014 in Snipe with Jaime Santos.
References
External links
Profile Juegos Panamericanos
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1991 births
Ecuadorian male sailors (sport)
Laser class sailors
Living people
Optimist class sailors
Pan American Games competitors for Ecuador
Sailors at the 2015 Pan American Games
Snipe class sailors
Sunfish class sailors