Tõnu Tõniste (born 26 April 1967) is Estonian Olympic sailor. He competed in four consecutive

Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'été), also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inau ...

, starting in 1988, winning a silver and a bronze medal in the men's

470 class The 470 (Four-Seventy) is a double-handed monohull planing dinghy with a centreboard, Bermuda rig, and centre sheeting. Equipped with a spinnaker, trapeze and a large sail-area-to-weight ratio, it is designed to plane easily, and good teamwork is ...

, for the Soviet Union (silver, 1988) and for Estonia (bronze, 1992). He did so with his twin brother

Toomas Tõniste Toomas Tõniste (born 26 April 1967) is an Estonian sailor and politician, and the former Minister of Finance. Career in sports Tõniste competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988. He won a silver and a bronze medal in the ...

. Now he is sailing in team Lenny in the

Melges 24 The Melges 24 is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by Reichel/Pugh as a one-design racer and first built in 1993. The design became an accepted World Sailing international class in 1997. Production The design has been buil ...

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Melges 24 Hall of Fame, Corinthian Melges 24 European Champions by Year
melges24.com ** 2011 Aarhus, Denmark Tõnu Tõniste (EST) ** 2014 Balatonfüred, Hungary Tõnu Tõniste (EST) * * * * 1967 births Living people Sportspeople from Tallinn Estonian male sailors (sport) Soviet male sailors (sport) Estonian twins Olympic sailors for the Soviet Union Olympic sailors for Estonia Sailors at the 1988 Summer Olympics – 470 Sailors at the 1992 Summer Olympics – 470 Sailors at the 1996 Summer Olympics – 470 Sailors at the 2000 Summer Olympics – 470 Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic bronze medalists for Estonia Olympic medalists in sailing Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics {{Estonia-yachtracing-bio-stub