Imre Taveter (born 21 April 1967, in

Keila Keila (german: Kegel) is a town and an urban municipality in Harju County in north-western Estonia, 25 km southwest of Tallinn. Keila is also the location of administrative buildings of the surrounding Keila Parish, a rural municipality sep ...

) is a retired Estonian sailor who specialized in the Finn class. He started sailing in the Optimist class in 1976 at Kalev Yacht Club, in the

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district of

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. Taveter won U18 Youth Championships titles of Soviet Union in the Finn class in 1984 and in 1985. He won the European U21 Junior Championships title in the Finn class (Çeşme, Turkey) in 1987. Taveter has won 9 Estonian Championships titles in the Finn class (1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003). He ended his career as a full time athlete in 1996. Since then he continued to practice sailing sport as an amateur. He has been selected to compete for

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in two editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2004), and has trained on years 1999-2004 at

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Yacht Club. Taveter made his Olympic debut, as a 33-year-old yachtsman, at the

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, where he finished twenty-second in the Finn class with a grade of 102. In 2001 he started as a co-founder and CEO a company Frontier Hockey OÜ producing sports equipment for ice hockey players. At the

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, Taveter had been offered an invitational place from the

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to compete on his second Estonian team in the men's Finn class. Taveter recorded a net grade of 221 to round out the fleet of twenty-five sailors in last place, trailing Italy's Michele Marchesini in the overall standings by a twenty-point margin.

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1967 births Living people Estonian male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for Estonia Sailors at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Finn Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Finn People from Keila {{Estonia-yachtracing-bio-stub