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Nationality | Brazilian | |||||||||||||
Born | Rio de Janeiro | April 16, 1958|||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | |||||||||||||
Weight | 159 lb (72 kg) | |||||||||||||
Sailing career | ||||||||||||||
Class(es) | Soling | |||||||||||||
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Daniel Adler (born April 16, 1958) is a Brazilian sailor. [1] [2] [3] [4] He is Jewish. [1] [5] [6] His father Harry Adler and brother Alan Adler were also sailing Olympians.
Adler won a silver medal for Brazil at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles in yachting (Soling), with Torben Grael and Ronaldo Senfft. [1] [5] [7] [8] He also competed in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul (coming in 5th) where he sailed in Race 1 to 5 before being replaced by Christoph Bergman due to illness and the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona (coming in 13th). [4]
He is the brother of Olympian Alan Adler, who competed for Brazil in the 1984, 1988, and 1992 Olympics in the Mixed Two-Person Heavyweight Dinghy, and the son of Harry Adler, who was in the 1964 Olympics. [4] His niece is Brazilian Girl’s 29er Daniela Adler Pimentel Duarte. [9]
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