João Rodrigues (sailor)
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| Medal record | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Competitor for  Portugal |
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| Men's Sailing | |||
| World Championships | |||
| Gold | 1995 Port Elizabeth | Mistral | |
| Silver | 2008 Auckland | Neil Pryde RS:X | |
| Bronze | 1998 Brest | Mistral | |
| European Championships | |||
| Gold | 1996 Nice | Mistral | |
| Gold | 1997 Murcia | Mistral | |
| Gold | 2008 Brest | Neil Pryde RS:X | |
| Bronze | 2003 Mondello | Mistral | |
João Filipe Gaspar Rodrigues, better known as João Rodrigues, (born November 2, 1971) is a Portuguese windsurfer from Funchal, Madeira. He started sailing with nine years-old and racing competitively at the age of eleven.
In 1995, he won his first major title at the Mistral World Championships, in Port Elizabeth, South Africa; this year, he also graduated from a five-year course in engineering. In the following two years, Rodrigues won the European Championships in the Mistral class. In May 2008, he added a third European title to his record, this time in the Neil Pryde RS:X class.
He has participated in every Summer Olympic Games since the 1992 Summer Olympics and has already qualified for what will be his fifth consecutive Olympiad.
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