Nélido Manso López (CUB)

Born in Caibarién, Cuba.  Nélido is a Snipe World Champion, Pan American Games gold and silver medalist, and a gold medalist at the Central American and Carribean Games. 

Nélido won the 1999 Snipe World Championship in Santiago de la Ribera. He has also won gold in 3 Pan American Games in the Snipe Class. 1991 in Havana, Cuba, 1995 in Mar del Plata, Argentina, and 1999 in Winnipeg, Canada. In 1993 he won gold at the Central American and Carribean Games in Ponce, Puerto Rico. 

In 2019, after a 16 year break, he sailed in the Pan American Games in  Lima, Peru, with his daughter and finished 4th. 

In 2022 Nélido once again sailed in the Snipe Worlds, finishing 2nd in the last race and 21st overall.