Édgar Diminich (born April 29, 1991) is a world class sailor from Ecuador.

Édgar Diminich
Personal information
Full nameÉdgar Andres Diminich Orellana
Nationality Ecuador
Born (1991-04-29) 29 April 1991 (age 33)
Sailing career
Club Salinas Yacht Club
Medal record
Sailing
Representing  Ecuador
Optimist World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Montevideo Optimist
Sunfish World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2016 Cartagena Sunfish
Bolivarian Games
Gold medal – first place 2009 Sucre Sunfish
Gold medal – first place 2013 Trujillo Snipe
Bolivarian Beach Games
Bronze medal – third place 2012 Lima Snipe
Silver medal – second place 2014 Huanchaco Snipe

He began sailing Optimists and became Southamerican champion in 2004 when he was 12 years old.[1][2] Two years later, in 2006, he won the bronze medal at the Optimist World Championship.[3]

Next, he was the Laser Radial Cressy Champion in Florida in 2008, the Laser National Champion in Ecuador in 2009, and he placed 4th in the Laser South Americans in Brazil in 2010.[4]

In 2012 he won the Snipe North American Championship as a crew of Raúl Ríos and in 2016 he won the Snipe Western Hemisphere & Orient Championship as a skipper, with Jaime Flores.[5] In 2016, he also was second at the Sunfish Worlds.[6]

Bolivarian Games

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Bolivarian Beach Games

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  • Bronze medal at Lima 2012 in Snipe with Juan José Ferretti Ramírez.
  • Silver medal at Huanchaco 2014 in Snipe with Jaime Santos.

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