Samuel Albrecht (born 2 September 1981) is a Brazilian sailor who specializes in both two-person dinghy (

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) and mixed multihull (

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) classes. He has been selected to compete for the Brazilian sailing team at the 2008 Summer Olympics, finishing seventeenth along with his partner Fabio Pillar in the 470 regatta. After missing out on the Olympic selection in 2012, Albrecht decided to turn his attention and eventually teamed up with Olympic bronze medalist

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on the newly instated Nacra 17 catamaran for a chance to compete at his possible second Games in

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. As of April 2015, Albrecht is ranked forty-fourth in the world for the mixed multihull class by the International Sailing Federation. Albrecht competed as a crew member for the Brazilian squad in the men's 470 class at the 2008 Summer Olympics in

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. Leading up to his Games, Albrecht and skipper Fabio Pillar managed to finish the series in a steady twenty-ninth and assure one of the eight available Olympic berths for their fleet at the 470 World Championships in

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, Australia. Throughout the eleven-race series, the Brazilian duo sailed away to a marvelous top ten finish at the very start of the regatta, but a haphazard maneuver on the succeeding leg and a pre-start side penalty on the midway saw them tumble down the leaderboard to seventeenth overall from a fleet of twenty-nine boats, recording a net grade of 139 points. Having missed the selection for his 2012 Olympic bid in the 470, Albrecht had shifted his immediate focus to the newly instated Nacra 17 catamaran. In 2015, Albrecht and his partner

had put together a solid feat with two best races at the Brazil Cup to secure the place on the host nation's sailing squad for their second Olympic Games in

. Albrecht would return in the Nacra 17 at the

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* 1981 births Living people Brazilian male sailors (sport) Sportspeople from Rio Grande do Sul Pan American Games medalists in sailing Pan American Games bronze medalists for Brazil Sailors at the 2019 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Olympic sailors of Brazil Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – 470 Sailors at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Nacra 17 Sailors at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Nacra 17 {{Brazil-yachtracing-bio-stub