Florencia Gutiérrez

{{short description|Argentine windsurfer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}

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| name = Florencia Gutiérrez

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| nationality = {{ARG}}

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|11|21|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Buenos Aires, Argentina

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| height = {{height|m=1.65|abbr=on}}

| weight = {{convert|60|kg|lb|0|abbr=on}}

| classes = Sailboard

| club = Club Nautico San Isidro

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{{MedalSport | Women's sailing}}

{{MedalCountry | Argentina }}

{{MedalCompetition|Pan American Games}}

{{MedalBronze | 2007 Rio de Janeiro | RS:X}}

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Florencia Gutiérrez (born 21 November 1970) is an Argentine former windsurfer, who specialized in the RS:X class.{{cite Sports-Reference |title=Florencia Gutiérrez |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gu/florencia-gutierrez-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203065601/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gu/florencia-gutierrez-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 December 2016 |access-date=8 April 2020}} She won a bronze medal at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro and eventually represented her nation Argentina at the 2008 Summer Olympics, finishing in the top twenty-five of her signature sailboard.{{cite news |title=El único bronce del día llegó con los bolos |trans-title=The only bronze of the day came from bowling |language=es |url=https://www.ambito.com/deportes/el-unico-bronce-del-dia-llego-los-bolos-n3442458 |publisher=Ámbito Financiero |date=26 July 2007 |accessdate=8 April 2020}} While sailing competitively for the national team, Gutiérrez was a member of San Isidro Nautical Club in the outskirts of her hometown Buenos Aires.

Gutiérrez competed for the Argentine sailing squad, as a 37-year-old, in the inaugural women's RS:X class at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Building up to her Olympic selection, she finished twentieth out of 38 entrants in the silver fleet to lock one of the seven places available at the class-associated Worlds nearly eight months earlier in Auckland, New Zealand.{{cite news |title=Down to the Wire at RS:X Worlds |url=https://www.sailing.org/3929.php#.Xo2SOdMza8r |publisher=World Sailing |date=18 January 2008 |accessdate=8 April 2020}}{{cite news |title=Nueva Zelanda: Florencia Gutiérrez se clasificó para ir a Beijing |trans-title=New Zealand: Florencia Gutiérrez qualifies for Beijing |language=es |url=https://www.lanueva.com/nota/2008-1-19-18-6-0-nueva-zelanda-florencia-gutierrez-se-clasifico-para-ir-a-beijing |publisher=La Nueva Provincia |date=19 January 2008 |accessdate=8 April 2020}} Gutiérrez clearly struggled to catch a large fleet of windsurfers from behind under breezy conditions with marks lower than eighteenth place at the end of ten-race series, sitting her steadily in the twenty-fifth spot with 216 net points.{{cite web |title=Beijing 2008: Women's RS:X Class |url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/sailing/resultsandschedules/rsc=SAW102000/standings.html |work=Beijing 2008 |publisher=NBC Olympics |accessdate=5 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140105145933/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/sailing/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DSAW102000/standings.html |archivedate=5 January 2014}}