Aarón Sarmiento Padilla (born 26 August 1986 in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria) is a Spanish sailor, who specialized in two-person dinghy (

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and

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) class. He represented Spain, along with his partner

Onán Barreiros Onán Barreiros Rodríguez (born 3 November 1981 in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria) is a Spanish sailor, who specialized in two-person dinghy (420 (dinghy), 420 and 470 (dinghy), 470) class. He represented Spain, along with his partner Aarón Sarmient ...

, in two editions of the Olympic Games (2008 and 2012), and has also been training for the Royal Nautical Club of Gran Canaria ( es, Real Club Náutico de Gran Canaria) throughout most of his sporting career under his personal coach and mentor Jorge Angulo. As of September 2013, Sarmiento is ranked no. 14 in the world for two-person dinghy class by the

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. Sarmiento made his official debut at the

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in Beijing, where he paired up with crew member

in the men's 470 class. Solid and confident, the Spanish duo finished outside the medals with a fifth-place effort on 87 points, trailing the feisty French tandem

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and Olivier Bausset by a nine-point margin. At the

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in London, Sarmiento qualified for an Olympics for the second time as a crew member in the men's 470 class by finishing ninth and receiving a berth at the ISAF World Championships in Perth, Western Australia. Teaming again with Barreiros in the opening series, Sarmiento narrowly missed a chance to sail for the medal race by a single point behind the Swedes, as the Spanish duo placed eleventh in a fleet of twenty-seven boats with an accumulated net score of 104 points.

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* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sarmiento, Aaron 1986 births Living people Spanish male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for Spain Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – 470 Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – 470 Real Club Náutico de Gran Canaria sailors Sportspeople from Las Palmas