Marc Pickel

German sailor Marc Pickel partnered Thomas Auracher in the two-person keelboat (star class) at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, finishing 12th. Both won the European Championships the same year. Pickel then sailed with Ingo Borkowski, but they finished a disappointing seventh at the 2008 Beijing Games. In 1997, Pikel won a bronze medal at the Europeans with the non-Olympian Carsten Witt.

Pickel was a trained boat builder by profession and worked with automobile manufacturer Daimler-Benz in the 1990s within the initiative Aerosail to support sailing sports in Germany. With the Crew “Astro” he won the Kiel Week in 1994. Later, he was named Chief National Coach in Germany.