Benjamín José Grez Ahrens (born 3 December 1992 in

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) is a Chilean sailor, who specialized in two-person dinghy (

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) class. He represented

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, along with his partner Diego González, at the

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, and has also been training throughout most of his sporting career for Team VTR Yacht Club in his native

, under his personal coach Cristian Noe. As of June 2015, Grez is ranked among the top 200 sailors in the world for the two-person dinghy class by the

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. Being one of the youngest members of the Chilean team, Grez qualified in the men's 470 class at the

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by having achieved a berth and finishing thirty-first from the World Championships in

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. Teaming up with his partner and crew member González in the opening series, the Chilean duo recorded a grade of 196 net points to establish a last position in a fleet of twenty-seven boats.

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