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Felix Steiger

Felix Steiger is a Swiss former sailor, who specialized in the two-person dinghy (470) class. Together with his partner Tobias Etter, he was named one of the country's top sailors in the double-handed dinghy for the 2008 Summer Olympics, finishing in a distant twenty-third place. Outside his Olympic career, he and Etter locked the podium spot with a bronze in the men's 470 at the 2005 Summer Universiade in İzmir, Turkey. Steiger trained most of his sporting career at Schloss Greifensee Sailing Club in the outskirts of Zürich.

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Felix Steiger
Personal information
Full nameFelix Steiger
Nationality Switzerland
Born (1980-07-18) 18 July 1980
Uster, Zürich, Switzerland
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight73 kg (161 lb)
Sailing career
SportSailing
ClubSC Schloss Greifensee
ClassDinghy
Medal record
Men's sailing
Representing Switzerland
Summer Universiade
Bronze medal – third place 2005 İzmir 470

Felix Steiger (born 18 July 1980) is a Swiss former sailor, who specialized in the two-person dinghy (470) class.1 Together with his partner Tobias Etter, he was named one of the country's top sailors in the double-handed dinghy for the 2008 Summer Olympics, finishing in a distant twenty-third place.2 Outside his Olympic career, he and Etter locked the podium spot with a bronze in the men's 470 at the 2005 Summer Universiade in İzmir, Turkey.34 Steiger trained most of his sporting career at Schloss Greifensee Sailing Club in the outskirts of Zürich.5

Steiger competed for the Swiss sailing squad, as a crew member in the men's 470 class, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.6 He and skipper Etter topped the Swiss Sailing Federation's selection criteria for a coveted spot on the Olympic team, based on their cumulative scores attained in a series of international regattas, including their top 40 finish at the Worlds nearly eight months earlier in Melbourne, Australia.7 The Swiss duo successfully posted a triad of single-digit marks each in races 3, 5, and 9, but a random wave of substandard outcomes throughout the series pushed both Etter and Steiger to the middle of a 29-boat fleet, sitting them in twenty-third overall with 162 net points.28

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  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Felix Steiger". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  2. "Schweizer Starboot-Duo muss sich steigern" [Swiss Star duo vows to improve] (in German). Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 16 August 2008. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  3. "Campbell Wins Gold and Tunnicliffe Silver". World Sailing. 22 August 2005. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  4. "Bronze für 470er-Segler" [Bronze for 470 sailors]. News.ch (in German). 16 August 2008. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  5. ""Hat etwas an der Technik gefehlt"" ["Something went missing from the technology"] (in German). Züriost. 18 August 2008. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  6. "Event Guide: Men's Two Person Dinghy – 470". World Sailing. 9 August 2008. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  7. "Zwei Quotenplätze für Schweizer Segler" [Two quota places for Swiss sailors] (in German). Volksblatt. 30 January 2008. Archived from the original on 12 April 2020. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  8. "Beijing 2008: Men's 470 Class". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 5 January 2014. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
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