Fábio Pillar

Fábio Pillar
Personal information
Full name	Fábio Silva Pillar
Nickname	cachopa
Nationality	Brazil
Born	9 April 1986 (age 38); 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
Coach	Paulo Ribeiro

Fábio Silva Pillar (born 9 April 1986 in Porto Alegre), also known as Fábio Dutra Pillar e Silva, is a Brazilian sailor who competes in the two-person dinghy (470) class.^[2]^[1] He was a member of the Brazilian sailing team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, 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]

Leading up to the 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] 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.
^ "Men's 470 Class". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 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.