Duarte de Almeida Bello
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| Full name | Duarte Manuel Pinto Coelho de Almeida Bello | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Portuguese | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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July 26, 1921 Maputo, Mozambique |
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| Died | June 3, 1994 (aged 72) Lisbon, Portugal |
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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.
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.
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