| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Fábio Silva Pillar |
Nickname | cachopa |
| Nationality |  Brazil |
| Born | (1986-04-09)9 April 1986 (age 39) Porto Alegre,Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft7+1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sailing career | |
| Class(es) | laser radial and 470 |
| Club | Clube dos Jangadeiros[1] |
| Coach | Paulo Ribeiro[1] |
Fábio Silva Pillar (born 9 April 1986 inPorto Alegre), also known asFábio Dutra Pillar e Silva, is a Brazilian sailor who competes in the two-person dinghy (470) class.[2][1] He was a member of the Brazilian sailing team at the2008 Summer Olympics inBeijing, finishing seventeenth along with his partnerSamuel Albrecht in the 470 regatta. Throughout his sailing career, Pillar trains full-time at Clube dos Jangadeiros in his nativePorto Alegre under the tutelage of head coach Paulo Ribeiro.[3]
Leading up to the Games, he and crew memberSamuel 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 inMelbourne, Australia.[4] In this eleven-race series, the Brazilian duo sailed to a top ten finish at the very start, but a haphazard maneuver on the succeeding leg and a pre-start side penalty on the midway saw them move down the leaderboard to seventeenth out of twenty-nine, recording a net grade of 139 points.[5][6] Fabio finished 11th in the laser radial world championship in Fortaleza (2005) and after a year of intense training Fabio won the laser radial world championship in Los Angeles (2006)
Full name: Fábio Silva Pillar
