Andreas Toba (born 7 October 1990 in

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) is a German gymnast. He is a three-time Olympian, having represented Germany at the

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, 2016, and

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Personal life

Toba is the son of former Romanian-German gymnast Marius Toba, who competed at three Olympic Games from 1988 to 2000. He's currently a student in Hannover.

Career

Toba started off for TK Hannover and is trained by Reinhard Rückriem. At the 2008 Junior European championship in

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, Toba won the bronze medal with his team and placed 7th on the high bar and 9th in the multiple stage-competition respectively. Toba entered the German national team in 2009. In the 2009 German championship, he placed 6th in the multiple stage competition and 7th one year later. In 2011, he won Bronze on the high bar and placed 4th on the bars and on the pommel horse. He placed 4th in the multiple-stage-competition again, but became runners-up on the high bar and on the rings, and second runner-up on the pommel horse. He placed 5th on the rings at the Challenge Cup in

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. He qualified for the Olympic Games 2012 in London as fourth-placed. In the

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, Toba competed in a floor event in which he sustained an

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. Later, though visibly injured, he completed a pommel horse routine and helped Germany qualify for the finals. Andreas Toba celebrated his comeback as a member of German national team after long and hard rehabilitation period at the

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in October 2017. He has performed on 2 apparatus (pommel horse with 12,933 points and still rings with 12,900 points).

Honours

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: 2016 * Sport personality of the year — Sparkasse Award for the cult-figure of sport: 2016 * An athlete with a heart: 2016 * Solidarity Award of Manfred von Richthofen: 2016 http://www.gymmedia.com/node/26257

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* * * * * German male artistic gymnasts 1990 births Sportspeople from Hanover Living people Olympic gymnasts of Germany Gymnasts at the 2012 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics German people of Romanian descent European Games competitors for Germany Gymnasts at the 2015 European Games Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics {{Germany-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub