# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tonu-toniste
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:56:13.655Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tonu-toniste"
name: "Tõnu Tõniste"
slug: "tonu-toniste"
description: "Tõnu Tõniste is an Estonian Olympic sailor. He competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988, winning a silver and a bronze medal in the men's 470 class, for the Soviet Union and for Estonia. He did so with his twin brother Toomas Tõniste. Now he is sailing in team Lenny in the Melges 24 class."
tagline: "Estonian sailor and sportsperson (born 1967)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/T%C3%B5nu_T%C3%B5niste_2017.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1967-04-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.89
  momentum:             0.8571428571428571
  historical:           13.73851733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Тину Тиністе"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tõnu Tõniste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%B5nu_T%C3%B5niste"
    title: "Tõnu Tõniste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%B5nu_T%C3%B5niste"
    title: "Tõnu Tõniste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%B5nu_T%C3%B5niste"
    title: "Tõnu Tõniste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%B5nu_T%C3%B5niste"
    title: "Tõnu Tõniste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D9%88_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%87"
    title: "تونو تونیسته"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tõnu Tõniste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%B5nu_T%C3%B5niste"
    title: "Tõnu Tõniste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8F%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%B8%D6%82_%D5%8F%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%AB%D5%BD%D5%BF%D5%A5"
    title: "Տինու Տինիստե"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tõnu Tõniste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%84%B0%EB%88%84_%ED%84%B0%EB%8B%88%EC%8A%A4%ED%85%8C"
    title: "터누 터니스테"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%B5nu_T%C3%B5niste"
    title: "Tõnu Tõniste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%B5nu_T%C3%B5niste"
    title: "Tõnu Tõniste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%8B%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%2C_%D0%A2%D1%8B%D0%BD%D1%83"
    title: "Тынисте, Тыну"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%B5nu_T%C3%B5niste"
    title: "Tõnu Tõniste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q620855"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump