Andreas Toba (born 7 October 1990 in Hanover) is a German gymnast.[1] He is a four-time Olympian, having represented Germany at the 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024 Olympic Games.
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| Country represented |  Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | October 7, 1990 Hanover, Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years on national team | 2008–present (GER) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | TK Hanover | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Andreas Hirsch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Personal life
editToba is the son of former Romanian-German gymnast Marius Toba, who competed at three Olympic Games from 1988 to 2000.[2]
Gymnastics career
edit2008–2012
editAt the 2008 Junior European Championships in Lausanne, Toba won the bronze medal with the German team. Individually he placed seventh on the high bar and ninth in the all-around respectively.
Toba joined the German senior national team in 2009. At the 2009 German Championships, he placed sixth in the all-around; the next year he placed seventh. In 2011 he won bronze on the high bar and placed fourth on the parallel bars and on the pommel horse.
He was selected to represent Germany at the 2012 Olympic Games alongside Philipp Boy, Fabian Hambüchen, Sebastian Krimmer, and Marcel Nguyen. Together they finished seventh as a team.[3]
2013–2016
editAt the 2013 European Championships Toba finished seventh in the all-around. He made his World Championships debut later that year; however he did not qualify for any finals. At the 2014 European Championships Toba helped Germany finish fourth. At the 2014 World Championships Toba helped Germany finish eighth as a team. Individually he finished sixteenth in the all-around.
In 2015 Toba competed at the São Paulo World Challenge Cup where he won bronze on pommel horse behind Xiao Ruoteng and Zhang Hongtao.[4] He next competed at the 2015 European Games where he helped Germany finish fifth. At the 2016 Olympic Test Event Toba helped Germany finish first as a team. As a result, they qualified a full team to the 2016 Olympic Games.[5]
At the 2016 Olympic Games, Toba competed in on floor exercise in which he sustained an anterior cruciate ligament injury. Later, though visibly injured, he completed a pommel horse routine and helped Germany qualify for the finals.[6]
2017–2021
editAndreas Toba celebrated his comeback as a member of German national team after long and hard rehabilitation period at the 2017 World Championships in October 2017. He has performed on 2 apparatus (pommel horse with 12,933 points and still rings with 12,900 points).[7]
Toba competed at the 2018 and 2019 World Championships; although Germany failed to qualify to the team final at both, they did manage to qualify a full team to the 2020 Olympic Games at the latter.[8]
In 2020 Toba was selected to compete at the American Cup, an event his father, Marius Tobă, won in 1988.[9] At the competition Toba placed twelfth.[10] The remainder of competitions in 2020 were either canceled or postponed, including the Olympic Games, due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Toba returned to competition at the 2021 European Championships. He won silver on horizontal bar behind David Belyavskiy.[11] In June Toba was selected for his third Olympic team alongside Lukas Dauser, Nils Dunkel, and Philipp Herder.[12] At the 2020 Olympic Games Toba helped Germany finish eighth during the team finals.[13]
2022–2024
editToba competed at the European Championships in 2022, 2023, and 2024. He competed at the 2023 DTB Pokal Mixed Cup where he helped Germany win silver behind the team from Japan.[14] During podium training at the 2023 World Championships, Toba injured his knee and was unable to compete.[15] Despite being unable to compete, Germany still managed to qualify a full team to the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris.
In June 2024 Toba competed at the German national championships where he placed second behind Lukas Dauser.[16] Later that month he was named to the team to compete at the 2024 Olympic Games alongside Dauser, Timo Eder, Nils Dunkel, and Pascal Brendel.[17] At the Olympic Games Germany finished eleventh as a team during qualifications.[18]
Competitive history
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Honours
edit- Bambi Award: 2016
- Sport personality of the year — Sparkasse Award for the cult-figure of sport: 2016[19]
- An athlete with a heart: 2016 [20]
- Solidarity Award of Manfred von Richthofen: 2016
References
edit- ^ "Andreas Toba - Gymnastics - Artistic - Olympic Athlete - London 2012". Archived from the original on 1 August 2012. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
- ^ Turner, Amanda (10 July 2016). "Scheder, Toba Lead German Olympic Squads". International Gymnast Magazine. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
- ^ "London 2012 Gymnastics Artistic Team Competition Men Results". International Olympic Committee.
- ^ "Brazilians, Chinese win big at São Paolo World Challenge Cup". International Gymnastics Federation. May 4, 2015.
- ^ "Final gymnastics berths filled at Rio 2016 test event". International Olympic Committee. April 25, 2016.
- ^ "German gymnast completes pommel horse despite torn ACL". The Score. 7 August 2016. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
- ^ "Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique". live.fig-gymnastics.com. Archived from the original on 3 October 2017. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ^ "Deutsches Männer-Team turnt auch in Tokio" [German men's team also competes in Tokyo]. Der Spiegel (in German). October 7, 2019.
- ^ "Q+A: Andreas and Marius Toba on American Cups past and present". International Gymnastics Federation. March 5, 2020.
- ^ "Hurd, Mikulak win American Cup titles". USA Gymnastics. March 8, 2020.
- ^ "Silber bei der Turn-EM: Andreas Toba ist reif für mehr" [Silver at the European Gymnastics Championships: Andreas Toba is ready for more]. Der Tagesspiegel (in German). April 25, 2021.
- ^ "Turnen: Andreas Toba Gewinnt Qualifikation Und Wird Für Olympia-team Benannt" [Gymnastics: Andreas Toba Wins Qualification and is Named For Olympic Team]. Lower Saxony Gymnastics Association (in German). June 13, 2021.
- ^ "2020 Olympic Games Men's Results". The Gymternet. August 18, 2021.
- ^ "2023 DTB Pokal Mixed Cup Results". The Gymternet. March 22, 2023.
- ^ "More bad news from German gymnastics Team: World Championship exit for Andreas Toba". Gym Media. September 28, 2023.
- ^ "Lukas Dauser ist Deutscher Mehrkampfmeister" [Lukas Dauser is German all-around champion]. German Gymnastics Federation (in German). June 8, 2024.
- ^ "DTB legt sich auf Turn-Team für Olympia fest" [DTB decides on gymnastics team for Olympics]. German Gymnastics Federation (in German). June 23, 2024.
- ^ "2024 Olympic Games Men's Results". The Gymternet. August 5, 2024.
- ^ "Sparkassenpreis für Vorbilder im Sport 2016 geht an Andreas Toba". www.dsgv.de. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ^ "Deutscher Sportpresseball – Sportler mit Herz". www.deutscher-sportpresseball.de. Archived from the original on 5 September 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
External links
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- Andreas Toba at the International Gymnastics Federation
- Andreas Toba at Olympedia (archive)
- Andreas Toba at Olympics.com
- Andreas Toba at Olympic.org (archived)
- Andreas Toba at Team Deutschland (in German)
- Andreas Toba at the Deutscher Turner-Bund (in German)
- Official website (in German)
