Tõnu Tõniste
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| Born | 26 April 1967 Tallinn, Estonia | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Tõnu Tõniste (born 26 April 1967) is Estonian Olympic sailor, he competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988, winning a silver and a bronze medal in the men's 470 class, 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 Melges 24 class.
References
- Profile at ESBL (in Estonian)
- sports-reference
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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Categories:
- 1967 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Tallinn
- Estonian male sailors (sport)
- Soviet male sailors (sport)
- Twin people from Estonia
- Olympic sailors of the Soviet Union
- Olympic sailors of 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
- Twin sportspeople
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Soviet Olympic medalist stubs
- Estonian Olympic medalist stubs
- European yacht racing biography stubs
- Estonian sportspeople stubs