Ferdinand Gerz (born 17 November 1988 in

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) is a German sailor, who specialized in two-person dinghy (

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) class. He represented

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, along with his partner

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, in the men's 470 class at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and has also been training throughout most of his sporting career at Deutscher Touring Yacht Club in

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Career

He also obtained a career best result with a single victory for the German squad at the 2012

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Tournament in

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. As of September 2014, Gerz is ranked no. 13 in the world for two-person dinghy class by the

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. Coming from a sporting pedigree, Gerz is the son of legendary sailor and 1983 world champion, Wolfgang Gerz, who finished fifth under the former West German sailing team in the

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class at the 1984 Summer Olympics in

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. Gerz qualified as a crew member for the German squad in the men's 470 class at the 2012 Summer Olympics in

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by placing fifteenth and receiving a berth from the ISAF World Championships in

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. Teaming with skipper

in the opening series, the German duo recorded a score of 105 net points to establish a thirteenth-place finish in a fleet of twenty-seven boats.

References

External links

* * * * 1988 births Living people German male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for Germany Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – 470 Sportspeople from Munich Sailors at the 2016 Summer Olympics – 470 {{Germany-yachtracing-bio-stub