Duarte Manuel Bello

Duarte Manuel Pinto Coelho de Almeida Bello (26 July 1921 – 3 July 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]

Duarte Manuel Bello
Duarte and Fernando Bello in 1948
Personal information
Full nameDuarte Manuel Pinto Coelho de Almeida Bello
NationalityPortuguese
Born(1921-07-26)26 July 1921
Maputo, Mozambique
Died3 June 1994(1994-06-03) (aged 72)
Lisbon, Portugal
Height174 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight89 kg (196 lb)
Medal record
Sailing
Representing  Portugal
Olympic Games
1948 London Swallow
Star World Championships
1952 Cascais, Portugal Faneca
1953 Napoli, Italy Faneca
1962 Cascais, Portugal Faneca

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 c. 1962.[3]

Early Childhood

Duarte was born in colonial Maputo to Duarte Mendes de Almeida Bello and Maria do Pilar Pinto Coelho in 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
gollark: "Works if adjacent to exactly two Cupronickel coolers and a Tungsten cooler above it"
gollark: "1000H/t during full moons"
gollark: Are there even that many interesting rules?
gollark: Assuming you do it right, I assume 64 would lag more than 1 regardless of output.
gollark: So... why cast to a player?

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. https://starclass.org/history/duarte-bello-profiles-of-star-champions
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