Santiago Raúl Lange (born September 22, 1961 in San Isidro, Argentina) is an Argentine Olympic sailor and a naval architect.

Sailing career

He studied Naval Architecture at Southampton College of Higher Education (now known as Solent University) he did a degree in yacht design. He went on to work for Argentina designer German Frers for a couple of years before concentrating on competitive sailing.

Olympics

Representing Argentina over a 32-year period, he competed seven times in the Summer Olympics, winning a gold and two bronze medals. He qualified to represent Argentina at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He was one of Argentina's flag bearers for the opening ceremony at the 2020 Olympic Games.

World Championships

He is a four-time World Champion, with 3 Snipe World Championships (1985, 1993 and 1995) and 1 Tornado World Championship (2004), twice runner-up in 1987 (Snipe) and 2006 (Tornado), and three times third place in 1979 (Cadet), 2003 (Tornado) and 2018 (Nacra 17).

Offshore Sailing

He has twice sailed the Volvo Ocean Race; in 2001–02 on Team SEB and in 2008–09 on Telefónica Black.

America Cup

He sailed for Victory Challenge in the 2007 Louis Vuitton Cup. For the 34th America's Cup was a member of Artemis Racing the Swedish Challenger.

Other Events

He also won the silver medal at the 1987 Pan American Games (Snipe) and the 1995 Pan American Games (Laser). In 1985, he won the Snipe South American Championship.

Awards

In 2016, he was named Sailor of the Year by World Sailing.

Personal life

Lange's sons Yago and Klaus are who are also Olympic sailors. One of the most remarkable things is that in 2015 following a repeatable illness, he was diagnosed with cancer in his lung, which required 25% removal of one of his lungs he battled back quickly to take gold despite the loss of fitness and time on the water so close to the games in which he won gold.