Duarte Manuel de Almeida Bello (26 July 1921 – 3 June 1994) was a Portuguese sailor who competed at the 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics.[1] He won a silver medal in the Swallow class in 1948, together with his brother Fernando Pinto Coelho Bello, and placed fourth in 1952 and 1956.[2]

Bello also raced Star class keelboats, winning silver medals at the 1953 and 1962 World Championship, and a bronze in 1952. He was known as an equipment innovator who invented several devices, including automatic "Bello bailers" in 1954, and the circular boom-vang track at the early 1960s.[3]

Early childhood

Duarte was born in colonial Maputo to Duarte Mendes de Almeida Bello and Maria do Pilar Pinto Coelho on 26 July 1921. Through a clerical error, the M which should have been Mendes as per his father became Manuel.

At 7 years of age his family moved back to Portugal,[4] where he began sailing the Sharpie.

In 1943, he married Maria Antonia Carneiro Bustorff Silva, daughter of one of Portugal's most prominent lawyers of the time, as well as a sailor. He was a Civil Engineer by education and worked in the national rail line Comboios de Portugal.

Olympic and World Championships

References

  1. ^ "Duarte Manuel Bello". Olympedia. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Duarte Manuel Bello". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 30 January 2012. Retrieved 20 February 2011.
  3. ^ "A Pictorial History of the Star Class" (PDF). International Star Class Yacht Racing Association. pp. 1–2.
  4. ^ "Star Class | History".
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duarte_Manuel_Bello
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