2024-08-21 14:10:27
The laser athlete was third in the Medal Race when the competition was suspended. After the competition restarted from scratch, the Chilean athlete remained in the top positions.
Clement Seguel continues to make history in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and achieved the Second diploma for Team Chile after finishing eighth in the overall sailing classification.
The Chilean athlete was placed in this position adding a total of 94 pointsafter finishing in the sixth place in the Medal Race.
As in the previous days, the race was not without problems. The final was already underway in the early hours of this morning, with the national athlete was third in the regatta and fifth in the overall classification.
However, the Medal Race was suspended due to weather conditions, specifically due to the lack of wind. After this, the competition resumed from scratch an hour later, whose stoppage did not benefit Clemente Seguel, who finally obtained the second Olympic diploma for Team Chile.
The sailing thus ended after suffering delays and rescheduling on three consecutive days due to the lack of wind in Marseille.
Clemente Seguel’s historic presentation at Paris 2024
With its historic participation in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Clement Seguel He improved the record of Luis Felipe Echenique, who finished 19th in Atlanta 1996. In this context, he achieved the second best sailing result in the history of Chile at the Olympics. He is only surpassed by the fourth place of Erich Wichmann-Harbeck, who finished fourth in one-design sailing in Berlin 1936.
Added to this, The representative of Team Chile surpassed what he did in Tokyo 2020, when he finished in 22nd place. In this context, Seguel became the first Chilean to compete in the Medal Race, since this format was established in Beijing 2008.