Roland Gabler

Background

Roland Gäbler grew up in Bremen, where he started sailing on the river Weser.

Career

He competed in five Olympic Games. During the rough regatta Roland Gäbler suffered a fracture of his hand. Job reasons forced Hans-Jürgen Pfohe to quit sailing in 1989.

Also the cooperation with Frank Parlow was fruitful: they qualified for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona (11 place) and the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta (7 place).

In 2001 Roland Gäbler became German head coach of the Deutscher Segler-Verband for the Tornado and 49er class. Roland Gäbler together with the adventurer and balloonist Steve Fossett also established a world record in high-speed sailing on the catamaran PlayStation (34m length) in 2001.

Together they sailed the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 (11 place). Together they are 6 times Mixed World Champions and 6 times Mixed European Champions in a row, and in 2013 and 2015 they also become European Champions in the Open Tornado (sailboat).

In 2010 Roland Gäbler wins the biggest blue ribbon race on lake Balaton with the Ventilo M2 multihull with the boatowner Rolf Hufnagel.

In the season 2011 Roland Gäbler is skipper on the Extreme 40 named Team Extreme in Extreme Sailing Series.

Achievements

• At the age of 14 he competed in his first regatta, one year later he won his first sailing competition. During his career in the Laser dinghy, Roland Gäbler won two European Championships and 14 international Championships. Both competed in the Kiel Week and qualified straightaway for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, however they won no medal. The team won four European Tornado Championships and the World Championship in 1996 for the first time. They won two further World Championships and three European Championships as well as a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. In 1995 and 1997 Roland Gäbler was awarded the title German Sailor of the Year as well as two times the award Silbernes Lorbeerblatt. Together with Gunnar Struckmann as crew Roland Gäbler won the German championship, the Volvo Champions Race and the Kiel Week 2005 - Gäblers fifth success in this competition. They straightaway won the Travemünde Week and the German championship 2009. In 2010 they won the World Championship in Tornado sailing - as first mixed team ever. In 2015 Roland has won 10 times Gold medals in Tornado World Championships in 2015. Besides several national and international titles, they also become winner of the Kiel Week in Tornado (sailboat) 2012 Kiel, Germany and winner of the Blue Ribbon of Round Fehmarn - Open class 2010. In 2011 he is also winner of the Gorla race 2011 under 30 foot - Ventilo M2 with the boatowner Rolf Hufnagel and his wife Nahid Gäbler as crew.

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