Anton Dahlberg

Anton Dahlberg
Personal information
Full name Anton Carl Diderik Dahlberg
Nickname(s) Antonio Montana[1]
Nationality  Sweden
Born (1985-05-10) 10 May 1985
Växjö, Sweden
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Weight 63 kg (139 lb)
Sailing career
Class(es) 470
Club Royal Swedish Yacht Club[1]
Coach Per Frykholm[1]

Anton Carl Diderik Dahlberg (born 10 May 1985 in Växjö) is a Swedish sailor, who specialized in two-person dinghy (470) class.[1][2] He represented Sweden, along with his partner Sebastian Östling, in two editions of the Olympic Games (2008 and 2012). He has also been training for the Royal Swedish Yacht Club (Swedish: Kungliga Svenska Segel Sällskapet) throughout most of his sporting career under his personal coach and mentor Per Frykholm.[1] As of September 2013, Dahlberg was ranked no. 28 in the world in the two-person dinghy class by the International Sailing Federation.

Dahlberg made his official debut at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he paired up with crew member Sebastian Östling in the men's 470 class. The Swedish duo finished fifteenth in a ten-round opening series with a net score of 111, trailing Israelis Gideon Kliger and Udi Gal by a narrow, three-point gap in the final standings.[3]

Dahlberg qualified to compete for the second time as a skipper in the men's 470 class at the Olympics by finishing eleventh and receiving at the ISAF World Championships in Perth, Western Australia.[4][5] Teaming again with Ostling in the opening series, the Swedish duo achieved four top 10 finishes to guarantee a spot in the final race, but fell short for the podium with an accumulated net score of 123 points and a tenth-place finish in a fleet of twenty-seven boats.[6][7]

Achievements

As of 27 September 2015[8]
Year Competition Venue Position Event
1999Optimist World ChampionshipsMartinique, France6thOptimist class
4thTeam racing
2000Optimist World ChampionshipsLa Coruna, Spain6thOptimist class
2007ISAF Sailing World ChampionshipsCascais, Portugal35th470 class
2008470 World ChampionshipsMelbourne, Australia51st470 class
Olympic GamesQingdao, China15th470 class
2009470 World ChampionshipsRungsted, Denmark24th470 class
2010470 World ChampionshipsHague, the Netherlands14th470 class
2011ISAF Sailing World ChampionshipsPerth, Australia11th470 class
2012Olympic GamesWeymouth and Portland, UK10th470 class
2013470 World ChampionshipsLa Rochelle, France20th470 class
2014ISAF Sailing World ChampionshipsSantander, Spain15th470 class

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Anton Dahlberg". London 2012. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
  2. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Anton Dahlberg". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
  3. ↑ "Men's 470 Class". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 5 January 2014. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  4. ↑ "Swedish 470 Teams Confirmed For Olympics". 470 World Championships. 31 January 2012. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
  5. ↑ "Four Different Race Winners Enjoy a Cracking Opening in Perth". 470 World Championships. 5 December 2011. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
  6. ↑ "Men's 470". London 2012. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
  7. ↑ "Svenskarna sänkte sina medaljchanser" [Swedes lowered their medal chances] (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. 7 August 2012. Archived from the original on 12 August 2012. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
  8. ↑ https://members.sailing.org/sailors/biog.php?memberid=68455


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