Felix Steiger (born 18 July 1980) is a Swiss former sailor, who specialized in the two-person dinghy (

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) class. Together with his partner Tobias Etter, he was named one of the country's top sailors in the double-handed dinghy for the

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, finishing in a distant twenty-third place. Outside his Olympic career, he and Etter locked the podium spot with a bronze in the men's 470 at the

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. Steiger trained most of his sporting career at Schloss Greifensee Sailing Club in the outskirts of

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. Steiger competed for the Swiss sailing squad, as a crew member in the men's 470 class, at the

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. He and skipper Etter topped the Swiss Sailing Federation's selection criteria for a coveted spot on the Olympic team, based on their cumulative scores attained in a series of international regattas, including their top 40 finish at the Worlds nearly eight months earlier in

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. The Swiss duo successfully posted a triad of single-digit marks each in races 3, 5, and 9, but a random wave of substandard outcomes throughout the series pushed both Etter and Steiger to the middle of a 29-boat fleet, sitting them in twenty-third overall with 162 net points.

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* * * * 1980 births Living people Swiss male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for Switzerland Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – 470 People from Uster Sportspeople from Zürich Medalists at the 2005 Summer Universiade Universiade bronze medalists for Switzerland Universiade medalists in sailing 21st-century Swiss people {{Switzerland-yachtracing-bio-stub