Duarte Manuel Bello

Duarte Manuel Bello
Personal information
Full name Duarte Manuel Pinto Coelho de Almeida Bello
Nationality Portuguese
Born (1921-07-26)July 26, 1921
Maputo, Mozambique
Died June 3, 1994(1994-06-03) (aged 72)
Lisbon, Portugal

Duarte Manuel Pinto Coelho de Almeida Bello (26 July 1921 3 July 1994) was a Portuguese competitive sailor and Olympic medalist. He won a silver medal in the Swallow class at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, together with his brother Fernando Pinto Coelho Bello.[1]

Bello also raced Star class keelboats, winning silver in the 1953 and 1962 World Championship, and bronze in the 1952 World Championship. Bello was also well known as an equipment innovator, inventing a number of items, including automatic "Bello bailers" in 1954, and the circular boom-vang track c. 1962.[2]

Olympic and World Championships

References

  1. "Duarte Manuel Bello". Sports-reference.com. Retrieved 20 February 2011.
  2. "A Pictorial History of the Star Class" (PDF). International Star Class Yacht Racing Association. pp. 1–2.


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