Oscar Galíndez

Oscar Galíndez
Medal record

Men's Triathlon
Competitor for Argentina
Pan American Games
	1995 Mar del Plata	Individual
	2003 Santo Domingo	Individual
Duathlon World Championship
	1995 Cancun	Elite Individual
Ironman World Championship 70.3
	2007 Clearwater	Elite Individual

Oscar Saul Galíndez (born June 5, 1971 in Río Tercero, Córdoba, Argentina) is a triathlete. He competed in the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics, obtaining the twenty-eighth place with a total time of 1:50:59.48.

Galíndez, began in triathlon when his was 16 year old. He soon was able to win the Hexa-championship "Trofeu Brasil de Triatlo" and Duathlon World Championship. In 1995, Galíndez decided to move and live in Brazil, where the training and races conditions were better than in Argentina.

Oscar has won innumerable victories that have made him build a great sporting career with more than 29 years of victories, becoming the foremost Argentinean in his specialty and one of the best triathletes in Latin America, as well as in the world.

In 2000, Galíndez had a good performance at the Olympic games in Sydney. By the year 2001 he started his preparation for long distance races, as Ironman.

Oscar is the creator and founder of OG Design (Sports brand of high-performance and style to be using in races and training), in addition to his brilliant career as triathlete, is the principal researcher and field test pilot, where with his extremely demanding perfectionist and approves every new product that will launch the brand.

He won almost all the Argentine triathlon, Brazilian triathlon, and several triathlon competitions around the world Pan American bronze medal in 1995 and 2003, Duathlon World Championship in 1995 and silver medal in Ironman 70.3 World Championship 2007.Oscar Galindez main titles

He was also awarded best athlete of the province of Cordoba 1994 and awarded by the Konex Foundation within the top 100 athletes of Argentina of all time.

World Champions in men's ITU Duathlon

Kenny Souza (1990) Matt Brick (1991-1992) Greg Welch (1993) Normann Stadler (1994) Oscar Galíndez (1995) Andrew Noble (1996) Jonathan Hall (1997) Yann Millon (1998-1999) Benny Vansteelant (2000-2001) Tim Don (2002) Benny Vansteelant (2003-2004) Paul Amey (2005) Leon Griffin (2006) Paul Amey (2007-2008) Jarrod Shoemaker (2009) Bart Aernouts (2010) Sergio Silva (2011) Emilio Martin (2012) Rob Woestenborghs (2013) Benoit Nicolas (2014)

(women)

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