Florencia Gutiérrez

Florencia Gutiérrez (born 21 November 1970) is an Argentine former windsurfer, who specialized in the RS:X class.[1] She won a bronze medal at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro and eventually represented her nation Argentina at the 2008 Summer Olympics, finishing in the top twenty-five of her signature sailboard.[2] While sailing competitively for the national team, Gutiérrez was a member of San Isidro Nautical Club in the outskirts of her hometown Buenos Aires.

Florencia Gutiérrez
Personal information
Full nameFlorencia Gutiérrez
Nationality Argentina
Born (1970-11-21) 21 November 1970
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight60 kg (132 lb)
Sailing career
Class(es)Sailboard
ClubClub Nautico San Isidro
Medal record
Women's sailing
Representing Argentina
Pan American Games
2007 Rio de Janeiro RS:X

Gutiérrez competed for the Argentine sailing squad, as a 37-year-old, in the inaugural women's RS:X class at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Building up to her Olympic selection, she finished twentieth out of 38 entrants in the silver fleet to lock one of the seven places available at the class-associated Worlds nearly eight months earlier in Auckland, New Zealand.[3][4] Gutiérrez clearly struggled to catch a large fleet of windsurfers from behind under breezy conditions with marks lower than eighteenth place at the end of ten-race series, sitting her steadily in the twenty-fifth spot with 216 net points.[5]

References
  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Florencia Gutiérrez". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  2. "El único bronce del día llegó con los bolos" [The only bronze of the day came from bowling] (in Spanish). Ámbito Financiero. 26 July 2007. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  3. "Down To The Wire At RS:X Worlds". World Sailing. 18 January 2008. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  4. "Nueva Zelanda: Florencia Gutiérrez se clasificó para ir a Beijing" [New Zealand: Florencia Gutiérrez qualifies for Beijing] (in Spanish). La Nueva Provincia. 19 January 2008. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  5. "Beijing 2008: Women's RS:X Class". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 5 January 2014. Retrieved 5 September 2013.


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