Afonso Manuel Costa Gaspar da Silva Domingos (born 29 July 1969 in

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) is a Portuguese sailor, who specialized in mixed multihull (

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) and two-person keelboat (

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) classes. He represented his nation

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in three editions of the Olympic Games (2000, 2008, and 2012), and has been training throughout his sailing career for Cascais Naval Club ( pt, Clube Naval de Cascais) in his current residence

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, under his personal coach Andy Zawija. Domingos made his Olympic debut at the

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, where he and his partner Diogo Cayolla sailed a marvelous stretch to seal a seventh-place finish in the 49er class with a net grade of 93. Despite missing out a place on the Portuguese team in Athens 2004, Domingos returned from an eight-year absence to compete for his second bid at the

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. Sailing with skipper Bernardo Santos in their new boat

, the Portuguese duo started the race on a blistering third-place effort, but fell short to eighth by a late caution in the middle of the series with a score of 72 net points. At the

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, Domingos teamed up with new partner

Frederico Melo Frederico Ricciardi Pinheiro de Melo (born 13 July 1987 in Azusa, California, United States) is a Portuguese sailor, who specializes in heavyweight one-person dinghy ( Finn) and two-person keelboat ( Star) classes. He represented his nation Por ...

on his third Olympic appearance in the

class, after having secured a berth and placing thirteenth from the ISAF World Championships in

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. Domingos and Melo failed to improve their feat from the previous Games throughout the ten-race series with a mediocre, fifteenth-place effort, posting a net grade of 108.

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Domingos, Afonso 1969 births Living people Portuguese male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors of Portugal Sailors at the 2000 Summer Olympics – 49er Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Star Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Star Sportspeople from Maputo Mozambican people of Portuguese descent Portuguese people of Mozambican descent