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Full name | Alexandre Tinoco do Amaral | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 3 December 1982||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Class | Snipe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Mahón Yacht Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alexandre Tinoco do Amaral (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3 December 1982) is a Brazilian-Dutch competitive sailor and sailing coach. [1]
He was world champion of snipe in 2011, South American champion in 2012, he won gold at the 2011 Pan American Games and silver medal at the 2010 South American Games. [2] [3]
In 2024 he won the Snipe European Cup as a crew member of the Belgian Manu Hens. [4]
He is the brother of Mário Tinoco do Amaral, who is also an accomplished sailor, who has been a world junior champion twice (2007 and 2009), and South American champion in 2013. [5] [3]
Since 2024 he is the coach of the ILCA 4 and 6 teams of the Mahón Yacht Club (Club Marítimo de Mahón) after the departure of long standing olympic coach Damián Borrás from the position. [6]