Tobias Etter (born 27 October 1980) is a Swiss former sailor, who specialized in the two-person dinghy (470) class.[1] Together with his partner Felix Steiger, he was named one of the country's top sailors in the double-handed dinghy for the 2008 Summer Olympics, finishing in a distant twenty-third place.[2] Outside his Olympic career, he and Steiger locked the podium spot with a bronze in the men's 470 at the 2005 Summer Universiade in İzmir, Turkey.[3][4] Etter trained most of his sporting career at Schloss Greifensee Sailing Club in the outskirts of Zürich.[5]
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| Full name | Tobias Etter | ||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Toby | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Switzerland | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 October 1980 Egg, Zürich, Switzerland | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Sailing career | |||||||||||||||
| Class | Dinghy | ||||||||||||||
| Club | SC Schloss Greifensee | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Etter competed for the Swiss sailing squad, as a skipper in the men's 470 class, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[6] He and crew member Steiger topped the Swiss Sailing Federation's selection criteria for a coveted spot on the Olympic team, based on their cumulative scores attained in a series of international regattas, including their top 40 finish at the Worlds nearly eight months earlier in Melbourne, Australia.[7] The Swiss duo successfully posted a triad of single-digit marks each in races 3, 5, and 9, but a random wave of substandard outcomes throughout the series pushed both Etter and Steiger to the middle of a 29-boat fleet, sitting them in twenty-third overall with 162 net points.[2][8]
References
edit- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Tobias Etter". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
- ^ a b "Schweizer Starboot-Duo muss sich steigern" [Swiss Star duo vows to improve] (in German). Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 16 August 2008. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
- ^ "Campbell Wins Gold and Tunnicliffe Silver". World Sailing. 22 August 2005. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- ^ "Bronze für 470er-Segler" [Bronze for 470 sailors]. News.ch (in German). 16 August 2008. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
- ^ ""Hat etwas an der Technik gefehlt"" ["Something went missing from the technology"] (in German). Züriost. 18 August 2008. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
- ^ "Event Guide: Men's Two Person Dinghy – 470". World Sailing. 9 August 2008. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
- ^ "Zwei Quotenplätze für Schweizer Segler" [Two quota places for Swiss sailors] (in German). Volksblatt. 30 January 2008. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
- ^ "Beijing 2008: Men's 470 Class". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 5 January 2014. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
External links
edit- Tobias Etter at World Sailing
- Tobias Etter at Olympics.com
- Tobias Etter at Olympic.org (archived)
- Tobias Etter at Olympedia
- Tobias Etter at NBC 2008 Olympics website at the Wayback Machine (archived 20 July 2012)
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