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| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Nationality |  Germany | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1981-05-07)7 May 1981 (age 44) | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 86 kg (190 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sailing career | |||||||||||||||
| Class | Keelboat | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Norddeutscher Regatta Verein[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Coach | Alan Smith[1] | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Robert Stanjek (born 7 May 1981 inRüdersdorf,Brandenburg) is a German sailor, who specialized in two-person keelboat (Star) class.[1][2] He representedGermany, along with his partnerFrithjof Kleen in the Star class at the2012 Summer Olympics, and also captured a silver medal at the2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships inPerth, Australia.[3] Stanjek has also been training throughout most of his sporting career for the North German Sailing Regatta (German:Norddeutscher Regatta Verein) inHamburg under his personal coach Alan Smith.[1][4] As of November 2014, Stanjek is ranked eighth in the world for the two-person keelboat by theInternational Sailing Federation, following his first-place effort at the ISAF World Cup Series andStar World Championship inMalcesine,Italy.[5]
Stanjek qualified as a skipper for the German squad in theStar class at the2012 Summer Olympics inLondon by placing second and receiving a berth from theISAF World Championships inPerth, Western Australia.[3][6] Teaming with his partnerFrithjof Kleen in the opening series, the German duo recorded a net score of 70 points throughout the entire race, but came up short for the medal podium in sixth position against a fleet of sixteen boats.[7][8]
