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Full name | Tara Pacheco van Rijnsoever | ||||||||||||||
Nationality | Spanish | ||||||||||||||
Born | Arucas, Spain | 3 October 1988||||||||||||||
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Tara Pacheco van Rijnsoever (born 3 October 1988 in Arucas) is a Spanish sports sailor. [1] [2] At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's 470 class with Berta Betanzos. At the 2016 Olympics, she and Fernando Echavarri competed in the Nacra 17 class. [3]
She was runner-up at the 2006 420 Female World Championships. Pacjeco first teamed with Iker Martinez to win European Nacra 17 title in 2014. [4]
At the 2017 Nacra 17 World Championship, she and Echavarri won a silver medal. [5] [4] They were beaten by Ben Saxton and Katie Dabson [6] She and Echavarri also won the silver medal at the 2017 European Championships. [4]
Born in Spain, Pacheco is of Dutch descent through her mother. [7]