MAEGLI Juan

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
8	Laser	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
9	Laser	2012	London, GBR
33	Laser	2008	Beijing, CHN

World Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
32	Laser	2011	Fremantle, WA, AUS
33	Laser	2014	Santander, ESP
34	Laser	2018	Aarhus, DEN
138	Laser	2007	Cascais, POR

Class World Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
20	Laser	2020	Melbourne, VIC, AUS
22	Laser	2019	Sakaiminato, JPN
47	Laser	2017	Split, CRO

Pan American Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Laser	2019	Lima, PER

Class European Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
18	Laser	2020	Gdansk, POL

Class North American Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
5	Laser	2018	Long Beach, CA, USA

World Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
9	Laser	2021	Medemblik, NED
9	Laser	2019	Miami, FL, USA
32	Laser	2019	Enoshima, JPN
48	Laser	2020	Enoshima, JPN

Juani (sailing.org, 16 Jan 2016)

Athlete

Business Administration - College of Charleston, United States of America

Wife Majo Abascal

English, Spanish

His sister Isabella Maegli has represented Guatemala in sailing. She was ranked 51st in Laser Radial at the 2019 Class World Championships in Sakaiminato, Japan. His father Juan Maegli-Novella competed in sailing for Guatemala at three consecutive Olympic Games between 1976 and 1984. His grandfather Jose Aguero was a two-time National Collegiate Athletic Association [NCAA] tennis champion in the United States of America. (SportsDeskOnline, 21 Jan 2020; guatemotivate.com, 14 Apr 2016; sailing.org, 16 Jan 2016; sailingworld.com, 02 Aug 2012)

He suffered a back injury at the 2016 World Cup event in Miami, FL, United States of America. He returned to competition in March 2016 after missing nine weeks due to the injury. (Instagram profile, 28 Mar 2016; prensalibre.com, 03 Feb 2016)

In 2008 he began experiencing back problems due to a herniated disc. (prensalibre.com, 22 Feb 2016, 03 Feb 2016)

He began sailing at age five. (sailing.org, 16 Jan 2016)

He was inspired to take up the sport by his father Juan Maegli Novella, who represented Guatemala in sailing at the Olympic Games in 1976, 1980 and 1984. (prensalibre.com, 24 Mar 2014)

His father Juan Maegli Novella, and his grandfather Jose Aguero. (sailing.org, 16 Jan 2016)

His father. (sailing.org, 16 Jan 2016)

He was named the 2013 College Sailor of the Year by the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association [ICSA] in the United States of America. (sailing.org, 16 Jan 2016)

He was flag bearer for Guatemala at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games in London. (sailingworld.com, 02 Aug 2012)