AREQUIPA, Peru – Nélido Manso, prominent Cuban sailboat, will enter the Hall of Fame of the International Snipe Class Association (SCIRA), a prestigious sports organization based in the United States.
The news, shared by HITinitially emerged on the entity’s website. The media points out that the decision was made with the objective of honoring those who have made outstanding contributions to Snipe class competitions worldwide.
Along with Manso, a native of Caibarién, province of Villa Clara, the Brazilian Bruno Bethlem, the Belgian Andre Callot, the Italian Enrico Michel and the American John Rose will also be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
SCIRA evaluated three fundamental categories when choosing the new “immortalized”: sailing, technical design and collaborators.
This marks the sixth time that the institution that represents that class within the International Sailing Federation has awarded its best exponents with this recognition.
“For the Cuban, world champion of the discipline and multiple Pan American medalist, this is a new award that comes to enhance his successful career sports, as he is the first Antillean residing in the country to achieve such a high award,” he emphasizes. HIT.
Founded in 1932, the International Snipe Class Association is currently part of the International Sailing Federation as an international class.
According to the official newspaper VanguardNélido Manso celebrated his 58th birthday on December 26, and among his achievements stands out that, together with his countryman Octavio Lorenzo Valdés, he won the only world title of the largest island in the Caribbean in this sport, in the event on the planet held in Murcia, Spain, in September 1999.
The Manso-Lorenzo pairing was also crowned in three editions of the Pan American Games: Havana 1991; Mar del Plata, Argentina (1995) and Winnipeg Canada (1999), as well as in the Central American and Caribbean Games, in Ponce, Puerto Rico, in 1993.
Subsequently, the successful duo won the silver medal in the New Continent competition held in Santo Domingo 2003. After retiring in 2004, Nélido returned to his old ways at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, 2019, where he had as a partner His daughter Iris Laura Manso Carrera competed in her fifth continental competition, in which she achieved a creditable fourth place.
The appointment of Nélido Manso as ambassador of the PL Sails brand, one of the most prestigious in the world, was recently announced.
