Xavier Torres, Santiago Lange and Julia Casanueva.

The names of the best regatists of 2016 are already known. The event that took place in Barcelona coinciding with the World Sailing Annual Conference - the International Federation of Veles - announced in its gala that the Argentine Santiago Lange and the British Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark, have been the best regatists of the year in the male and female category.

Lange's career in the sailing world is very extensive but this year has been special for him as he has not only won the gold medal at the last Rio Olympic Games in Nacra 17 next to Cecilia Carranza, but this same year he overcame a lung cancer, with operation included. And things from the destination, the 2016 best regatist award has been received in the city where he was saved a few months ago: Barcelona. As a rule, the best always come to this type of ending, and all for some reason or another, you can consider that they are worthy of the prize, but you can only win it one, in this case two, one by gender. But Santi's is perhaps a prize shared by all, he is probably the most important Argentine regatist in history, for his career and also for his successes, but not only in Olympic sailing - two bronces and one or- but in cruise sailing, oceanic, Copa América and so on. His 55 is already a world sailing hero and now the World Sailing has recognized him as such.