Andreas Toba (born 7 October 1990 in
Hanover) is a German gymnast. He is a three-time Olympian, having represented Germany at the
2012
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2016
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, and
2020 Olympic Games
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Personal life
Toba is the son of former Romanian-German gymnast
Marius Toba
Marius may refer to:
People
*Gaius Marius (157 BC-86 BC), Roman statesman, seven times consul.
Arts and entertainment
* ''Marius'' (play), a 1929 play by Marcel Pagnol
* "Marius" (short story), a 1957 story by Poul Anderson
* ''Marius'' (193 ...
, who competed at three Olympic Games from 1988 to 2000. He's currently a student in Hannover.
Career
Toba started off for TK Hannover and is trained by Reinhard Rückriem. At the 2008 Junior European championship in
Lausanne, Toba won the bronze medal with his team and placed 7th on the high bar and 9th in the multiple stage-competition respectively.
Toba entered the German national team in 2009. In the 2009 German championship, he placed 6th in the multiple stage competition and 7th one year later. In 2011, he won Bronze on the high bar and placed 4th on the bars and on the
pommel horse. He placed 4th in the multiple-stage-competition again, but became runners-up on the high bar and on the
rings, and second runner-up on the pommel horse. He placed 5th on the rings at the Challenge Cup in
Doha. He qualified for the
Olympic Games 2012 in London as fourth-placed.
In the
2016 Summer Olympics
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, Toba competed in a floor event in which he sustained an
anterior cruciate ligament injury
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. Later, though visibly injured, he completed a
pommel horse routine and helped Germany qualify for the finals.
Andreas Toba celebrated his comeback as a member of German national team after long and hard rehabilitation period at the
World Gymnastics Championships in October 2017. He has performed on 2 apparatus (pommel horse with 12,933 points and still rings with 12,900 points).
Honours
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Bambi Award: 2016
* Sport personality of the year — Sparkasse Award for the cult-figure of sport: 2016
* An athlete with a heart: 2016
* Solidarity Award of Manfred von Richthofen: 2016
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References
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German male artistic gymnasts
1990 births
Sportspeople from Hanover
Living people
Olympic gymnasts of Germany
Gymnasts at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics
German people of Romanian descent
European Games competitors for Germany
Gymnasts at the 2015 European Games
Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics
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