FLORENCIA

Our Brand Ambassador Florencia Chiarella is a high-performance athlete/dinghy sailor studying business administration. She's an active, determined, competitive, and adventurous person with a great motivation that drives her to learn. Sailing has become more than her passion; she's always doing things related to it, starting from when she wakes up until she falls asleep.

HER STORY

Florencia was born and raised in Lima, Peru. She started sailing at eight years old on a sailboat called Optimist. Since then, Florencia has represented her club (Club Regatas Lima) and home country (Peru) in multiple national and international championships. In 2017, she became the first woman to win an Optimist South American Championship in Paraguay. The year after (2018), she led the Peruvian national team and championed again together.

After closing a successful cycle at Optimist, together with one of her former Optimist colleagues, she started sailing a new boat called Nacra 15. Likewise, after multiple defeats, she learned to lose with dignity, which prompted her to rethink her goals and gain resilience. Florencia never Stopped dreaming big. Following Nacra 15, she started competing in the most sailed boat globally called ILCA, which she continues practicing until this day.

In 2021, she made history again and became the first Peruvian ever to win a Youth Sailing World Championship. At the age of eighteen, she continues training and competing to accomplish her goals. For the next few years, she aims to represent Peru in the Olympic circuit to qualify for the 2023 Pan American Games to be held in Chile and the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.