John Sebastian Östling (born 2 June 1984 in Onsala,

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) is a Swedish sailor, who specializes in the

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class, a two-person dinghy. He represented

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, along with his partner

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, in two editions of the Olympic Games (2008 and 2012), and has also been training representing Royal Swedish Yacht Club throughout most of his sporting career under his personal coach and mentor Per Frykholm.

Saling career

Olympic 470 campaigns with Dahlberg (2007–2012)

Sebastian Östling and

had gone to the same ( sv, riksidrottsgymnasium), but started to sail together first when they both were studying at the Stockholm School of Economics. Dahlberg and Östling finished 35th out of 112 in the men's 470 event at the

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, taking in a bullet in the first race of the opening series. Östling made his Olympic debut at the

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in Beijing, where he paired up with skipper Dahlberg in the men's 470 class. The Swedish duo finished 15th in a ten-round opening series with a net score of 111, trailing Israelis Gideon Kliger and Udi Gal by a narrow, three-point gap from the final standings. At the

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in London, Östling competed for the second time as a crew member in the men's 470 class by finishing eleventh and receiving a berth from the ISAF World Championships in Perth, Western Australia. Teaming again with Dahlberg in the opening series, the Swedish duo mounted four top 10 finishes to guarantee a spot in the final race, but fell short for the podium with an accumulated net score of 123 points and a tenth-place finish in a fleet of twenty-seven boats.

Olympic 470 campaign with Molund

Östling then paired with Johan Molund aiming for the

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. The duo won the 2015 Delta Lloyd Regatta in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ostling, Sebastian 1984 births Living people Swedish male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for Sweden Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – 470 Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – 470 People from Kungsbacka Municipality Royal Swedish Yacht Club sailors Sportspeople from Halland County 21st-century Swedish people