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
Summer Olympics
The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens, then part of the King ...
, 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.
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References
External links
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)
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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
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