Felix Steiger

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Felix Steiger
Personal information
Full nameFelix Steiger
NationalityFlag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland
Born (1980-07-18) 18 July 1980 (age 44)
Uster, Zürich, Switzerland
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight73 kg (161 lb)
Sailing career
Class Dinghy
ClubSC Schloss Greifensee
Medal record
Men's sailing
Representing Switzerland
Summer Universiade
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 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. [3] [4] 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. [2] [8]

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