Anne-Sophie Thilo
Swiss sailor
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Anne-Sophie Thilo (born 3 December 1987) is a Swiss former sailor, who specialized in the two-person dinghy (470) class.[1] Together with her partner Emmanuelle Rol, she won a silver medal at the Europeans in Riva del Garda, Italy and was named one of the country's top sailors in the double-handed dinghy for the Summer Olympics a few months later in Beijing, finishing in a lowly seventeenth place.[2][3] A member of her native Pully's local sailing club (French: Club Nautique de Pully), Thilo trained most of her sporting career under the federation's head coach for 470, French-born Nicolas Novara.[4]
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Nickname | Anso | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Switzerland | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 December 1987 | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 66 kg (146 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Class | Dinghy | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Club Nautique de Pully | ||||||||||||||
| Coach | Nicolas Novara (FRA) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Thilo competed for the Swiss sailing squad, as a crew member in the women's 470 class, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She and skipper Rol topped the Swiss Sailing Federation's selection criteria for a coveted spot on the Olympic team, based on their cumulative scores attained in a series of international regattas, including their runner-up finish at the Europeans a few months earlier.[3][5] The Swiss duo seized their advantage at the initial half of the series by taking the top-ten spots each in races 2 to 4, but a series of unanticipated technical errors towards the final legs pushed both Thilo and Rol to the near end of the fleet, sitting them in a lowly seventeenth overall with 114 net points.[2][6]
When she and Rol split their partnership in late 2008, Thilo teamed up with several Swiss sailors at various international regattas until her sporting career came to a fruitful end in 2013.[7] Thilo currently served as a chairman and sports development consultant for the Athletes' Council at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne.[8]
