Anton Dahlberg

Anton Dahlberg
Anton Carl Diderik Dahlberg (born 10 May 1985) is a Swedish sailor, who specializes in the 470 class, a two-person dinghy. He has represented Sweden, along with his partner Sebastian Östling, in two editions of the Olympic Games (2008 and 2012), and with Fredrik Bergström in 2016 and 2020, winning an Olympic silver in 2020. He has been representing the Royal Swedish Yacht Club throughout most of his career.
Throughout his career he has been coached by Per Frykholm and Viktor Bergström.
Sailing career
Early years
Dahlberg, born in Växjö, started sailing in Växjö Kappseglingsklubb on Helgasjön. He sailed the Optimist dinghy and finished 6th in both the 1999 and the 2000 Optimist World Championship, as well as fourth with the Swedish team in the team event at the 1999 edition. In 2000, he was a awarded the Gedda Trophy for the Swedish Junior Sailor of the Year by the Swedish Sailing Federation.
First two Olympic 470 campaigns, with Östling (2007–2012)
Anton Dahlberg and Sebastian Östling had gone to the same , but started to sail together first when they both were studying at the Stockholm School of Economics. Dahlberg and Östling finished 35th out of 112 in the men's 470 event at the 2007 ISAF Sailing World Championships in Cascais, taking in a bullet in the first race of the opening series.
Dahlberg made his Olympic debut at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, together with crew member Östling in the men's 470 event class. The Swedish duo finished 15th in a ten-round opening series with a net score of 111, trailing Israelis Gideon Kliger and Udi Gal by a narrow, three-point gap in the final standings.
Dahlberg qualified to compete for the second time as a skipper in the men's 470 class at the Olympics by finishing eleventh and receiving a nation spot at the ISAF World Championships in Perth, Western Australia. Teaming again with Östling in the opening series, the Swedish duo achieved four top 10 finishes to guarantee a spot in the final race, but fell short for the podium with an accumulated net score of 123 points and a tenth-place finish in a fleet of twenty-seven boats.
470 Olympic silver medal with Bergström (2013–2021)
After the 2012 Summer Olympics, Dahlberg instead joined forces with former 470 Junior World Championship champion Fredrik Bergström for a 2016 Summer Olympics campaign. The two finished second in the 2014 Trofeo Princesa Sofía. At the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships in Santander, they finished 15th.
In November 2015, Dahlberg and Bergström were among the first batch of athletes selected by the Swedish Olympic Committee to represent Sweden at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.At the Olympics, with a fourth place possible before the medal race, the Swedish duo finished sixth.
At the 2017 470 World Championships in Thessaloniki, Dahlberg and Bergström were in the lead before the medal race on the last day, ahead of Australian team Mathew Belcher and Will Ryan. Believing they were on the course side of the starting line at the time of the starting signal, they went back to start again and lost the race and the World championship title. In May 2018, they won the 470 European Championships in Burgas. The year after they defended their European Championship title in Sanremo in May.
At the 2021 470 World Championships in Vilamoura in March 2021, the Dahlberg and Bergström team won their first World championship title, ahead of Portuguese silver medallists Diogo Costa and Pedro Costa and Spanish bronze-medallist team Jordi Xammar and Nicolás Rodríguez.
Dahlberg and Bergström represented Sweden in the men's 470 event at the 2020 Olympics. On the first day of the Olympic regatta in Enoshima, the Swedish duo won the first race and finished 15th in the second. In the end of the series, Dahlberg and Bergström had taken the silver medal after securing the second place in the medal race ahead of Spanish duo Xammar and Rodríguez, who took the bronze. The Australian duo Belcher and Ryan claimed the gold medal.
Mixed 470 with Karlsson (since 2022)
After the 2020 Summer Olympics and the end of the men's 470 event in the Olympics, Dahlberg teamed up with Lovisa Karlsson, who had sailed in the women's event in the same Olympics, to campaign for the 2024 Summer Olympics. They made their first regatta together in the 2022 Semaine Olympique Française in Hyères, which they won.
In September 2022, Dahlberg and Karlsson won the 470 European Championships in Çeşme, Turkey. At the 2022 470 World Championship in Sdot Yam a month later, they finished 13th and therefore not qualified for the medal race.
Dahlberg and Karlsson successfully defended their 470 European Championships title in May 2023 in Sanremo, one point ahead of German crew Anna Markfort and Simon Diesch.
Personal life
Anton Dahlberg is the son of Peder Dahlberg, who has won several Swedish championship titles in the 22m² Skerry cruiser class. Anton Dahlberg is married to Danish sailor and coach Alberte Lindberg, with whom he has one child, and lives in Klagshamn.
Achievements
References
External links
1985 births
Living people
Swedish male sailors (sport)
Sportspeople from Växjö
Royal Swedish Yacht Club sailors
Olympic sailors for Sweden
Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – 470
Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – 470
Sailors at the 2016 Summer Olympics – 470
Sailors at the 2020 Summer Olympics – 470
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in sailing
Olympic silver medalists for Sweden
Optimist class sailors
470 class world champions