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Full name | Cecilia Carranza Saroli | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Argentina | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Rosario, Argentina | 29 December 1986|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cecilia Carranza Saroli [lower-alpha 1] (born 29 December 1986) is an Argentine Olympic sailor. [1] [2] [3] At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's Laser Radial class, finishing in the 21st place. [4] At the 2008 Summer Olympics she finished 8th in the same event. [2] Cecilia won the gold medal at the 2011 Pan American Games. At the 2016 Summer Olympics she won the gold medal in the category Nacra 17 alongside fellow sailor Santiago Lange.
She qualified to represent Argentina with Lange at the 2020 Summer Olympics. [5] She and Lange were Argentina's flag bearers for the opening ceremony. [6]
She was born in Rosario, Argentina. [1] [2] She is openly lesbian. [7]
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