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Andreas Toba

Andreas Toba
Toba in 2017
Personal information
Born (1990-10-07) October 7, 1990 (age 34)
Hanover, Germany
Height1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Gymnastics career
Country represented Germany
Years on national team2008–present (GER)
ClubTK Hanover
Head coach(es)Andreas Hirsch
Medal record
Men's artistic gymnastics
Representing  Germany
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2021 Basel Horizontal Bar
FIG World Cup
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
World Challenge Cup 0 0 1

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.

Personal life

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Toba is the son of former Romanian-German gymnast Marius Toba, who competed at three Olympic Games from 1988 to 2000.[2]

Gymnastics career

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2008–2012

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At 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

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At 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

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Andreas 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

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Toba 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.

Toba competing on pommel horse at the 2022 European Championships

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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Year Event Team AA FX PH SR VT PB HB
2008
European Championships (junior) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 7
2009 German Championships 6
2010 German Championships 7
2011 German Championships 4 4 4 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2012 Doha World Challenge Cup 5
German Championships 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Olympic Games 7
2013 German Championships 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
European Championships 7
World Championships 27 35
2014 Cottbus World Challenge Cup 6 8
German Championships 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
European Championships 4
World Championships 8 16
2015 German Championships 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
São Paulo World Challenge Cup 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 5 8 4
European Games 5
World Championships R1
2016 Cottbus World Cup 8 6
Olympic Test Event 1st place, gold medalist(s)
European Championships 5
German Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Olympic Games 7
2017
World Championships 47
Cottbus World Challenge Cup 8
2018
European Championships 4
German Championships 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
World Championships R2
2019
European Championships 11
German Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
World Championships 12 19
Swiss Cup 4
2020 American Cup 12
2021
European Championships 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
German Championships 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Olympic Games 8
2022 German Championships 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
European Championships 7
World Championships 9
2023 DTB Pokal Team Challenge 12 6
DTB Pokal Mixed Cup 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
European Championships 5
German Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2024 DTB Pokal Team Challenge 5 6
European Championships 9
German Championships 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Olympic Games 11

Honours

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References

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  1. ^ "Andreas Toba - Gymnastics - Artistic - Olympic Athlete - London 2012". Archived from the original on 1 August 2012. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
  2. ^ Turner, Amanda (10 July 2016). "Scheder, Toba Lead German Olympic Squads". International Gymnast Magazine. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  3. ^ "London 2012 Gymnastics Artistic Team Competition Men Results". International Olympic Committee.
  4. ^ "Brazilians, Chinese win big at São Paolo World Challenge Cup". International Gymnastics Federation. May 4, 2015.
  5. ^ "Final gymnastics berths filled at Rio 2016 test event". International Olympic Committee. April 25, 2016.
  6. ^ "German gymnast completes pommel horse despite torn ACL". The Score. 7 August 2016. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
  7. ^ "Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique". live.fig-gymnastics.com. Archived from the original on 3 October 2017. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  8. ^ "Deutsches Männer-Team turnt auch in Tokio" [German men's team also competes in Tokyo]. Der Spiegel (in German). October 7, 2019.
  9. ^ "Q+A: Andreas and Marius Toba on American Cups past and present". International Gymnastics Federation. March 5, 2020.
  10. ^ "Hurd, Mikulak win American Cup titles". USA Gymnastics. March 8, 2020.
  11. ^ "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.
  12. ^ "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.
  13. ^ "2020 Olympic Games Men's Results". The Gymternet. August 18, 2021.
  14. ^ "2023 DTB Pokal Mixed Cup Results". The Gymternet. March 22, 2023.
  15. ^ "More bad news from German gymnastics Team: World Championship exit for Andreas Toba". Gym Media. September 28, 2023.
  16. ^ "Lukas Dauser ist Deutscher Mehrkampfmeister" [Lukas Dauser is German all-around champion]. German Gymnastics Federation (in German). June 8, 2024.
  17. ^ "DTB legt sich auf Turn-Team für Olympia fest" [DTB decides on gymnastics team for Olympics]. German Gymnastics Federation (in German). June 23, 2024.
  18. ^ "2024 Olympic Games Men's Results". The Gymternet. August 5, 2024.
  19. ^ "Sparkassenpreis für Vorbilder im Sport 2016 geht an Andreas Toba". www.dsgv.de. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  20. ^ "Deutscher Sportpresseball – Sportler mit Herz". www.deutscher-sportpresseball.de. Archived from the original on 5 September 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
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