Full name Fábio Silva Pillar Height 1.72 m (5 ft 7 ⁄2 in) Class(es) Dinghy | Nationality Brazil Weight 63 kg (139 lb) Club Clube dos Jangadeiros | |
Born 9 April 1986 (age 30) ( 1986-04-09 ) Pôrto Alegre, Rio Grande
do Sul, Brazil | ||
Fábio Silva Pillar (born April 9, 1986 in Pôrto Alegre) is a Brazilian sailor who specializes in the two-person dinghy (470) class. He has been selected to compete for the Brazilian sailing team at the 2008 Summer Olympics, 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.
Pillar competed as a crew member for the Brazilian squad in the men's 470 class at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to his 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. Throughout the eleven-race series, the Brazilian duo sailed away to a marvelous top ten finish at the very start of the regatta, but a haphazard maneuver on the succeeding leg and a pre-start side penalty on the midway saw them tumble down the leaderboard to seventeenth overall from a fleet of twenty-nine boats, recording a net grade of 139 points.