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Full name | Marcelo Bastos Ferreria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 26 September 1965||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 104 kg (229 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Class(es) | Star, Volvo 70 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Marcelo Bastos Ferreria[a] (born 26 September 1965) is a Brazilian sailor and Olympic champion. He received a gold medal in the Star Class at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta with Torben Grael.[1][2] He received a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney,[3] and won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[4]
Ferreira is World champion from 1990 and 1997, and seven times Brazilian champion (1989, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003).
In 2005-06, he was a crewmember on Brasil 1 in the Volvo Ocean Race.[5]
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