Christian Nehammer


Hans-Christian Nehammer is an Austrian sailor, who specialized in the keelboat class. Together with his partner and five-time Olympian Hans Spitzauer, he was named one of the country's top sailors in the all-male keelboat for the 2008 Summer Olympics, finishing in twelfth place. A six-time Austrian champion in his pet event, Nehammer trained most of his sporting career at the Union Yacht Club in Attersee.
Nehammer competed for the Austrian sailing squad, as a 32-year-old crew member in the Star class, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. After missing the Olympic cut at the Worlds in 2007, he and skipper Spitzauer rebounded from their flimsy outcome in Cascais to punch the last of the four remaining tickets vying for qualification with a successful top 16 finish at the class-associated Worlds in Miami. The Austrian duo accumulated a triad of top-six marks throughout the ten-race course, but a disastrous feat on the last leg slipped their chances away from the medal round to the twelfth overall spot with 87 net points.