Tõnu Tõniste (born 26 April 1967) is an Estonian Olympic

sailor A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a person who works aboard a watercraft as part of its crew, and may work in any one of a number of different fields that are related to the operation and maintenance of a ship. While the term ''sailor'' ...

. He competed in four consecutive

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, 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 i ...

, for the Soviet Union (silver, 1988) and for Estonia (bronze, 1992). He did so with his twin brother Toomas Tõniste. Now he is sailing in team Lenny in the Melges 24 class.sports-reference
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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 Sailors (sport) 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