Yannick Brauchli

Yannick Brauchli
Personal information
Full name Yannick Brauchli
Nickname(s) Yane[1]
Nationality   Switzerland
Born (1988-07-30) 30 July 1988
Zürich, Switzerland
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Weight 64 kg (141 lb)
Sailing career
Class(es) Dinghy
Club Segel Club Enge[1]
Coach Nicolas Novara[1]

Yannick Brauchli (born July 30, 1988 in Zürich) is a Swiss sailor, who specialized in two-person dinghy (470) class.[1][2] He represented Switzerland, along with his partner Romuald Hausser, at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and has also been training for Segel Club Enge throughout most of his sporting career under his personal coach Nicolas Novara.[1] As of September 2014, Brauchli is ranked sixteenth in the world for two-person dinghy class by the International Sailing Federation, following his successes at the North American Championships, European Championships and ISAF Sailing World Cup Series.[3]

Brauchli qualified as a skipper for the Swiss squad in the men's 470 class at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London by placing twenty-sixth and receiving a berth from the ISAF World Championships in Perth, Western Australia.[4][5] Teaming with crew member Romuald Hausser in the opening series, the Swiss duo recorded a score of 119 net points to establish a sixteenth-place finish in a fleet of twenty-seven boats.[6][7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Yannick Brauchli". London 2012. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
  2. ↑ "Yannick Brauchli". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
  3. ↑ "So feiert Deutschland seinen WM-Titel" [So Germany celebrates its first title at the World Cup series] (in German). Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen. 14 July 2014. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
  4. ↑ "102 Schweizer Athleten in London" [102 Swiss athletes in London] (in German). Neue Luzerner Zeitung. 23 July 2012. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
  5. ↑ "Doch ein Quotenplatz für Brauchli/Hausser" [Quota place for Brauchli and Hausser] (in German). News.ch. 13 December 2011. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
  6. ↑ "Men's 470". London 2012. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
  7. ↑ "Segel-Duo Brauchli/Hausser ausgeschieden" [Sailing duo Brauchli and Hausser eliminated] (in German). Blick. 7 August 2012. Retrieved 21 September 2014.

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