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Juan Manuel Alonso Allende

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Nationality
  
Spain

Name
  
Juan Alonso-Allende

Club
  
Real Sporting Club


Weight
  
79 kg (174 lb)

Height
  
1.74 m (5 ft 8 ⁄2 in)

Died
  
March 10, 1984

Full name
  
Juan Manuel Alonso Allende y Allende

Born
  
8 December 1918 (
1918-12-08
)
Bilbao

Class(es)
  
Snipe, Star, Firefly, Flying Dutchman

Juan Manuel Alonso Allende y Allende (8 December 1918 – 10 March 1984) was a Spanish Olympic sailor that competed in three Olympic Games between 1948 and 1968. Alonso-Allende also was a world-class competitor in the Snipe, Star, Firefly and Flying Dutchman classes.

He won the Snipe class world championship in 1957. Besides, he won the first edition of the Spanish championship of the class in 1942 as a crew with his brother, José Maria, and as a skipper in 1956 and 1957.

In the Star class, he was Spanish national champion in 1943, 1945, 1947, 1966, 1967 and 1968.

Olympic Games

Alonso-Allende sailed at 3 different Olympic Games:

  • 19th place in Firefly at London 1948.
  • 11th place in Flying Dutchman at Rome 1960.
  • 18th place in Star at Mexico 1968.

    • References

    Juan Manuel Alonso-Allende Wikipedia
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