Nancy Rios
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Nancy Damian Rios |
| Nationality | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
| Born | April 26, 1988 |
| Height | 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m) |
| Weight | 115 lb (52 kg) |
| Sport | |
| Sailing career | |
| Class | Sailboard |
| Club | Banana River Windsurfing Resort |
| Coach | Brandon Sebald |
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Nancy Damian Rios (born April 26, 1988) is an American former windsurfer, who specialized in the RS:X class.[1] She finished fifth in her sporting discipline at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, and was eventually named the country's top female windsurfer for the 2008 Summer Olympics, finishing a lowly twenty-sixth place.[2][3] A member of the sailing roster at Banana River Windsurfing Resort in Cocoa Beach, Florida, Rios trained under the tutelage of her personal coach Brandon Sebald.[2]
Rios competed for the U.S. sailing squad in the inaugural women's RS:X class at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[4] Before securing one of the seven berths available at the Worlds in late January 2008, she topped the selection criteria in a three-way controversial battle against Karen Marriott and Farrah Hall at the U.S. Team Trials in Long Beach, California.[5] Following the last of the 16-race regatta, Rios protested that her collision with Marriott and Hall ripped her sail and slowed her down towards the near end of the fleet. US Sailing favored Rio's appeal for redress, raised her cumulative score, and awarded her a spot on the team.[6] During her maiden Games, Rios clearly struggled to catch a large fleet of windsurfers from behind under breezy conditions with marks lower than the top 20 and an unanticipated eighth-leg exit at the end of ten-race series, sitting her steadily in twenty-sixth overall with a net grade of 224. Moreover, Rios' cumulative score spared her from the bottom of the field by a slight, eight-point edge over Turkey's Sedef Köktentürk.[3][7]
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Nancy Damian Rios at World Sailing (archive)
- Nancy Rios at Olympics.comLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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- Nancy Rios at NBC 2008 Olympics website at the Wayback Machine (archived July 20, 2012)
- 1988 births
- Living people
- American female sailors (sport)
- American windsurfers
- Olympic sailors for the United States
- Pan American Games competitors for the United States
- Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – RS:X
- Sailors at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Sportspeople from Orange County, California
- 21st-century American sportswomen
- Female windsurfers
- American sailing biography stubs