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| Full name | Roberto Molina Carrasco | |||||||||||||
| Born | 5 June 1960 (age 62) Arrecife, Las Palmas, Spain | |||||||||||||
| Height | 176 cm (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | |||||||||||||
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Roberto Molina Carrasco [lower-alpha 1] (born 5 June 1960) is a Spanish sailor and Olympic champion. He won gold medal in the 470 class at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, together with Luis Doreste. [1]
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