Félix Fructuoso Sienra Castellanos (21 January 1916 – 30 January 2023) was a Uruguayan
sailor
A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a person who works aboard a watercraft as part of its crew, and may work in any one of a number of different fields that are related to the operation and maintenance of a ship. While the term ''sailor'' ...
who competed in the
1948 Summer Olympics
The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and officially branded as London 1948, were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus cau ...
finishing sixth.
He was a lawyer by profession.
In the 1948 Olympic Games, he sailed in the Firefly class and placed sixth out of 21 participants.
Sienra
turned 100
A centenarian is a person who has reached the age of 100. Because life expectancies at birth worldwide are well below 100, the term is invariably associated with longevity. The United Nations estimated that there were 316,600 living centenarian ...
in January 2016, and died on 30 January 2023, at the age of 107.
On January 17 2023, he became the oldest known Olympian to have ever lived, overtaking
Walter Walsh, who had died just short of his 107th birthday in 2014. Sienra died about two weeks later on, aged 107 and 9 days. He is the only known Uruguayan Olympic centenarian.
See also
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List of centenarians (sportspeople)
The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as sportspeople — known for reasons other than their longevity. For more lists, see lists of centenarians.
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1916 births
2023 deaths
Uruguayan male sailors (sport)
Olympic sailors for Uruguay
Sailors at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Firefly
Uruguayan men centenarians
Sailors (sport) from Montevideo
20th-century Uruguayan sportsmen
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