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| Full name | Alexandre Welter | |||||||||||||
| Born | 30 June 1953 (age 69) São Paulo, Brazil | |||||||||||||
| Height | 186 cm (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||
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Alexandre "Alex" Welter (born 30 June 1953) is a Brazilian sailor and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in the Tornado Class at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, [1] [2] alongside Lars Sigurd Bjorkstrom.
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