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Stefano Peschiera | |
Nationality: | Peruvian |
Birth Date: | 16 January 1995 |
Birth Place: | Lima, Peru |
Sport: | Sailing |
Event: | ILCA 7, ILCA 6, ILCA 4, Optimist |
Turnedpro: | 06/05/2018 |
South Americans: | 1 |
Usnationals: | 5 |
Olympics: | 1 |
Highestranking: | 8 |
Stefano Peschiera (born 16 January 1995) is a Peruvian competitive sailor and Olympic medal winner.
He finished 4th in Laser Standard and 1st in Laser Radial at the 2014 South American Championships; 58th at the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships; 3rd at the 2014 Laser Standard Men's Under-21 World Championship; 7th at the 2014 Laser North American Championship; 5th at the 2014 South American Games; and 2nd at the 2013 Bolivarian Games.[1]
In 2022, he won the Peruvian Nationals in the Snipe class.[2]
He won the ICSA Men's Singlehanded National Championship twice, in 2015 and 2018, the ICSA Coed Dinghy National Championship in 2018, and the ICSA Team Racing National Championship in 2017-18 sailing for the College of Charleston, and was named ICSA College Sailor of the Year in 2018.
He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, in the men's Laser class,[3] after getting Peru the first out of the 9 berths offered at the Laser World Championship in Kingston, Canada. He is currently Ranked number 8 in the World Sailing Rankings and qualified for the Olympic Games in 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He represented Peru again in the Paris 2024 Olympics where he won the bronze medal in the men's Laser class.[4]