Fábio Pillar
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Fábio Silva Pillar |
| Nationality |
 Brazil |
| Born |
9 April 1986 Pôrto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) |
| Sailing career | |
| Class(es) | Dinghy |
| Club | Clube dos Jangadeiros[1] |
| Coach | Paulo Ribeiro[1] |
Fábio Silva Pillar (born April 9, 1986 in Pôrto Alegre) is a Brazilian sailor who specializes in the two-person dinghy (470) class.[2][1] He has been selected to compete for the Brazilian sailing team at the 2008 Summer Olympics, finishing seventeenth along with his partner Samuel Albrecht in the 470 regatta. Throughout his sailing career, Pillar trains full-time at Clube dos Jangadeiros in his native Pôrto Alegre under the tutelage of head coach Paulo Ribeiro.[3]
Pillar competed as a crew member for the Brazilian squad in the men's 470 class at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to his Games, he and crew member Samuel Albrecht managed to finish the series in a steady twenty-ninth and assure one of the eight available Olympic berths for their fleet at the 470 World Championships in Melbourne, Australia.[4] Throughout the eleven-race series, the Brazilian duo sailed away to a marvelous top ten finish at the very start of the regatta, but a haphazard maneuver on the succeeding leg and a pre-start side penalty on the midway saw them tumble down the leaderboard to seventeenth overall from a fleet of twenty-nine boats, recording a net grade of 139 points.[5][6]
References
- 1 2 3 "Fábio Pillar". Beijing 2008. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
- ↑ "Fábio Pillar". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Men's 470 Class". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. 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.