Personal information | |
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Nationality | ![]() |
Born | Piombino, Italy | 2 July 1986
Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) |
Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) |
Sailing career | |
Class | Sailboard |
Club | Fiamme Oro [1] [2] [3] |
Coach | Adriano Stella [2] |
Federico Esposito (born 2 July 1986) is an Italian windsurfer, who specialized in Neil Pryde RS:X class. He was born in Piombino. [2] [4] He represented Italy at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and has been currently training for Fiamma Oro Sport Club (Italian : Gruppo Sportivo Fiamme Oro ) under his personal coach and mentor Adriano Stella. [3] As of September 2013, Esposito is ranked no. 45 in the world for the sailboard class by the International Sailing Federation.
Esposito competed in the men's RS:X class at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London by finishing thirty-sixth and receiving a berth from the ISAF World Championships in Perth, Western Australia. [5] Struggling to attain a top position in the opening series, Esposito accumulated a net score of 269 points to pick up a thirty-fourth spot in a fleet of thirty-eight windsurfers. [6] [7]