Fabian Heidegger (born 4 August 1988) is an Italian former windsurfer, who specialized in the RS:X class. He represented his country

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at the

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, finishing among the top twenty windsurfers in his signature sailboard. Heidegger trained most of his competitive sporting career, as a member of the sailing roster for A.V.L. Caldaro, under the tutelage of his personal coach Paolo Ghione. Heidegger competed for the Italian sailing squad, as a 20-year-old, in the inaugural men's RS:X class at the

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. Building up to his Olympic selection, he scored a commendable, eleventh-place finish at the 2007 ISAF Worlds in

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to lock the country's top RS:X spot for the Games. Heidegger started the series comfortably with a superb top-eight mark on the third leg, before fading steadily towards the middle of the 35-man fleet and never looked back, sitting him in the top twenty overall position with 138 net points. Heidegger sought to bid for his second consecutive trip to the Games in

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, but he lost the domestic selection to Federico Esposito, abruptly prompting him to retire from the sport.

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Athlete Bio – CONI
{{DEFAULTSORT:Heidegger, Fabian 1988 births Living people Italian male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for Italy Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – RS:X Sportspeople from Bolzano Italian windsurfers 21st-century Italian sportspeople