Santiago Grillo
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| Full name | Santiago Enrique Grillo Diez | |||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Colombia | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 May 1987 Cali, Colombia | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
| Sailing career | ||||||||||||||||||
| Class | RS:X | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | Velas y Vientos | |||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Manuel Fumagallo | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Santiago Enrique Grillo Diez (born May 27, 1987 in Cali), known as Santiago Grillo, is a Colombian windsurfer who specialized in RS:X class. A two-time Olympian (2008 and 2012), he is ranked no. 82 in the world for the sailboard class by the International Sailing Federation. Grillo also trains for Velas y Vientos in Cali under his Argentina-based personal coach Manuel Fumagallo.
Grillo made his debut at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he finished last out of thirty-five sailors in the men's RS:X class with a net score of 293.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, as a 25 year old, Grillo qualified for his second Colombian team in the RS:X class by attaining a 53rd-place effort and an automatic berth at the World Championships in Cádiz, Spain. Struggling to attain a top position in the opening series, Grillo accumulated a net score of 302 points for a 37th-place finish in a fleet of 38 windsurfers.