{{Short description|Portuguese sailor (1921–1994)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2018}} {{Infobox sailor | name = Duarte Manuel Bello | image = Bello brothers sailing 1948.jpg | image_size = | caption = Duarte and Fernando Bello in 1948 | birth_name = | fullname = Duarte Manuel de Almeida Bello | nationality = [[Portugal|Portuguese]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1921|7|26}} | birth_place = [[Maputo]], [[Mozambique]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1994|6|3|1921|7|26}} | death_place = [[Lisbon]], Portugal | height = 174 cm | weight = 89 kg | classes = | club = | collegeteam = | coach = | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | [[Sailing (sport)|Sailing]] }} {{MedalCountry | {{flagu|Portugal}} }} {{MedalCompetition | [[Olympic Games]] }} {{MedalSilver | [[1948 Summer Olympics|1948 London]] | [[Sailing at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Swallow|Swallow]] }} {{MedalCompetition | [[Star World Championships]] }} {{MedalBronze | 1952 Cascais, Portugal | ''Faneca'' }} {{MedalSilver | 1953 Napoli, Italy | ''Faneca'' }} {{MedalSilver | 1962 Cascais, Portugal | ''Faneca'' }} | show-medals = yes | updated = }}
'''Duarte Manuel de Almeida Bello''' (26 July 1921 – 3 June 1994) was a Portuguese sailor who competed at the 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/61286 |title=Duarte Manuel Bello |work=Olympedia |access-date=2 June 2020}}</ref> He won a silver medal in the [[Swallow (keelboat)|Swallow class]] in 1948, together with his brother [[Fernando Pinto Coelho Bello]], and placed fourth in 1952 and 1956.<ref name=sref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/duarte-manuel-bello-1.html |title=Duarte Manuel Bello |publisher=Sports-reference.com |access-date=20 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120130220501/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/duarte-manuel-bello-1.html |archive-date=30 January 2012 }}</ref>
Bello also raced [[Star (sailboat)|Star]] class keelboats, winning silver medals at the 1953 and 1962 [[Star World Championships|World Championship]], and a bronze in 1952. He was known as an equipment innovator who invented several devices, including automatic "Bello bailers" in 1954, and the circular boom-vang track at the early 1960s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.starclass.org/history/ABPictorialHistory.pdf |title=A Pictorial History of the Star Class |publisher=International Star Class Yacht Racing Association |pages=1–2 }}</ref>
== Early childhood == Duarte was born in colonial [[Maputo, Mozambique|Maputo]] to Duarte Mendes de Almeida Bello and Maria do Pilar Pinto Coelho on 26 July 1921. Through a clerical error, the M which should have been Mendes as per his father became Manuel.
At 7 years of age his family moved back to Portugal,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://starclass.org/history/duarte-bello-profiles-of-star-champions|title=Star Class | History}}</ref> where he began sailing the Sharpie.
In 1943, he married Maria Antonia Carneiro Bustorff Silva, daughter of one of Portugal's most prominent lawyers of the time, as well as a sailor. He was a Civil Engineer by education and worked in the national rail line [[Comboios de Portugal]].
== Olympic and World Championships == * [[1947 Star World Championships]] – 10th place (with [[Fernando Pinto Coelho Bello|F. Bello]]) * [[1948 Star World Championships]] – 5th place (with [[Fernando Pinto Coelho Bello|F. Bello]]) * [[Sailing at the 1948 Summer Olympics|1948 Olympics]] – [[Sailing at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Swallow|Swallow]] – Silver Medal (with [[Fernando Pinto Coelho Bello|F. Bello]]) * [[1951 Star World Championships]] – 9th place (with [[Fernando Pinto Coelho Bello|F. Bello]]) * [[1952 Star World Championships]] – Bronze (with [[Fernando Pinto Coelho Bello|F. Bello]]) * [[Sailing at the 1952 Summer Olympics|1952 Olympics]] – [[Sailing at the 1952 Summer Olympics – 5.5 Metre|5.5 Metre]] – 4th (with [[Fernando Pinto Coelho Bello|F. Bello]] & [[Júlio de Sousa Leite Gourinho|Júlio Gourinho]]) * [[1953 Star World Championships]] – Silver (with [[João Miguel Tito]]) * [[1954 Star World Championships]] – 6th place (with [[João Miguel Tito|J. Tito]]) * [[1955 Star World Championships]] – 9th place (with J. Silva) * [[1956 Star World Championships]] – 7th place (with J. Silva) * [[Sailing at the 1956 Summer Olympics|1956 Olympics]] – [[Sailing at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Star|Star]] – 4th place (with [[José Bustorff Silva]]) * [[1957 Star World Championships]] – 28th place (with M. Ricciardi) * [[1960 Star World Championships]] – 12th place (with Oliveir) * [[Sailing at the 1960 Summer Olympics|1960 Olympics]] – [[Sailing at the 1960 Summer Olympics – 5.5 Metre|5.5 Metre]] – 16th place (with [[Fernando Pinto Coelho Bello|Fernando Bello]] & [[Júlio de Sousa Leite Gourinho|J. Gourinho]]) * [[1962 Star World Championships]] – Silver (with [[Fernando Pinto Coelho Bello|F. Bello]]) * [[1963 Star World Championships]] – 27th place (with [[Fernando Pinto Coelho Bello|F. Bello]]) * [[Sailing at the 1964 Summer Olympics|1964 Olympics]] – [[Sailing at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Star|Star]] – 8th place (with [[Fernando Pinto Coelho Bello|F. Bello]]) * [[1965 Star World Championships]] – 19th place (with [[Fernando Pinto Coelho Bello|F. Bello]]) * [[1966 Star World Championships]] – 41st place (with Antonio Rocha) * [[1972 Star World Championships]] – 31st place (with Manuel Espirito Santo) * [[1973 Star World Championships]] – 26th place (with Duke Robinson) * [[1974 Star World Championships]] – 18th place (with [[Fernando Pinto Coelho Bello|F. Bello]]) * [[1983 Star World Championships]] – 65th place (with Rui Roque de Pinho) * [[1986 Star World Championships]] – 70th place (with Fernando B. Bello)
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