Hans-Christian Nehammer (born 26 May 1976) is an Austrian sailor, who specializes in the Star class. Together with his partner and five-time Olympian

Hans Spitzauer Johann "Hans" Spitzauer (, born 1 March 1965) is an Austrian former sailor, who specialized in both Finn and Star classes. He was named the country's top Finn sailor in the first three editions of his Olympic career (1988, 1992, and 1996) and c ...

, he was named one of the country's top sailors in the Star event for the

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, finishing in twelfth place. A seven-time Austrian champion in his pet event, Nehammer sailed all of his sporting career for the Union-Yacht-Club Attersee in Attersee.

Career

Looking to compete in the 2008 Summer Olympics, Nehammer and skipper Spitzauer missed the Olympic cut at the

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, but rebounded from their flimsy outcome to punch the last of the four remaining tickets vying for qualification with a successful top 16 finish at the 2008 Star World Championship in Miami. Nehammer, then 32 years old, competed as a crew member together with and Spitzauer for

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in the Star event at the

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. The Austrian duo accumulated a triad of top-six marks throughout the ten-race course, but a disastrous feat on the last leg slipped their chances away from the medal round to the twelfth overall spot with 87 net points. Christian Nehammer competed as skipper in the Star class between 2009 and 2019 in many Star European Championship and

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events, scoring several top 10 places together with Florian Urban. In 2019, Christian Nehammer switched back to sailing as a crew and won the Eastern Hemisphere Championship in his home waters together with Augie Diaz. In 2020, Spitzauer and Nehammer finished 3rd at the Star European Championship in

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. In the next European Championship in Split, Nehammer repeated the achievement, this time with Diaz. Later in the year, Spitzauer and Nehammer managed to claim the 3rd position at the World Championship in Kiel.

Personal life

In parallel to his sports career Christian Nehammer finished his studies on economics at the

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in 2002.

Achievements

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* * * * 1976 births Living people Austrian male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for Austria Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Star Sportspeople from Salzburg {{Austria-yachtracing-bio-stub