Toni Wilhelm (born 5 February 1983) is a German competitive
windsurfer
Windsurfing is a wind propelled water sport that is a combination of sailing and surfing. It is also referred to as "sailboarding" and "boardsailing", and emerged in the late 1960s from the aerospace and surf culture of California. Windsurfing ga ...
. He was born in
Lörrach
Lörrach () is a town in southwest Germany, in the valley of the Wiese, close to the French and the Swiss borders. It is the capital of the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg. It is the home of a number of large employers, including t ...
. He competed in
windsurfing
Windsurfing is a wind propelled water sport that is a combination of sailing and surfing. It is also referred to as "sailboarding" and "boardsailing", and emerged in the late 1960s from the aerospace and surf culture of California. Windsurfing ga ...
at the
2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and at the
2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he finished in 4th place.
At the
2016 Summer Olympics in
Rio de Janeiro
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, he finished in 6th place.
References
1983 births
Living people
People from Lörrach
Sportspeople from Freiburg (region)
German windsurfers
Olympic sailors for Germany
German male sailors (sport)
Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Mistral One Design
Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – RS:X
Sailors at the 2016 Summer Olympics – RS:X
Summer World University Games medalists in sailing
FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Germany
Medalists at the 2005 Summer Universiade
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