Aaron McIntosh (born 7 January 1972 in

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) is a

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from New Zealand who won a Bronze medal at

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. He had previously just missed out on a medal at the

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in Atlanta finishing a close fourth. At the World

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Championships he finished third in 1993, second in 1995 and won three times in 1994, 1997 and 1998. McIntosh attempted to qualify for a third Olympics at Beijing in the Soling class but was unsuccessful. He did qualify—with Mark Kennedy—for the two-man Tornado multihull class, but New Zealand did not send them to the games. He is the coach of Dorian van Rijsselberghe, who won gold at the

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and

2016 Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro ...

, as well as

Kiran Badloe Kiran Badloe (born 13 September 1994) is a Dutch windsurfer. He won the gold medal in the men's event at the 2019 RS:X World Championships and 2020 RS:X World Championships. In October 2020, he competed at the iQFoil International Games held ...

who won gold at the

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.Badloe had het zonder 'Dor' en Aaron niet gered: 'Niet ik, maar we hebben goud'
NOS.nl, 31 July 2021.

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* * * * 1972 births Living people New Zealand windsurfers New Zealand male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for New Zealand Olympic bronze medalists for New Zealand Olympic medalists in sailing Sailors at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Mistral One Design Sailors at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Mistral One Design Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Sailors (sport) from Auckland {{Windsurfing-bio-stub