Fábio Pillar
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Fábio Silva Pillar |
| Nickname | cachopa |
| Nationality |  Brazil |
| Born | 9 April 1986 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) |
| Sailing career | |
| Class(es) | laser radial and 470 |
| Club | Clube dos Jangadeiros[1] |
| Coach | Paulo Ribeiro[1] |
Fábio Silva Pillar (born 9 April 1986 in
Pôrto Alegre under the tutelage of head coach Paulo Ribeiro.[3]
Leading up to the Games, he and crew member
Melbourne, Australia.[4] In this eleven-race series, the Brazilian duo sailed to a top ten finish at the very start, but a haphazard maneuver on the succeeding leg and a pre-start side penalty on the midway saw them move down the leaderboard to seventeenth out of twenty-nine, recording a net grade of 139 points.[5][6]
Fabio finished 11th in the laser radial world championship in Fortaleza (2005) and after a year of intense training Fabio won the laser radial world championship in Los Angeles (2006)
References
- ^ a b c "Fábio Pillar". Beijing 2008 Olympics. Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games. Archived from the original on 3 September 2008. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Fábio Pillar". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 23 January 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
Full name: Fábio Silva Pillar
- ^ "Fábio Pillar fala sobre a campanha olímpica" [Fábio Pillar talks about his Olympic campaign] (in Portuguese). Clube dos Jangadeiros. 2 January 2014. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
- ^ "Universo Online Olympic Profile – Samuel Albrecht" (in Portuguese). Universo Online. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
- NBC Olympics. Archived from the originalon 5 January 2014. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
- ^ "Fabio Pillar e Samuel Albrecht em 17º na classe 470" [Fabio Pillar and Samuel Albrecht finished seventeenth in the 470] (in Portuguese). Universo Online. 16 August 2008. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
External links
- Fábio Pillar at World Sailing
- Fábio Pillar at Olympedia
- Fabio Silva at Olympics.com
- Fabio Silva at NBC 2008 Olympics website at the Wayback Machine (archived 4 January 2014)
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