Anton Carl Diderik Dahlberg (born 10 May 1985) is a Swedish sailor, who specializes in the 470 class, a two-person dinghy.[1][2] 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.[1]
Throughout his career he has been coached by Per Frykholm and Viktor Bergström.[1][3]
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.[13]
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.[14][15] 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.[16][17]
470 Olympic silver medal with Bergström (2013–2021)
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.[23] 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.[23] In May 2018, they won the 470 European Championships in Burgas.[24] The year after they defended their European Championship title in Sanremo in May.[25]
Dahlberg and Bergström represented Sweden in the men's 470 event at the 2020 Olympics.[28] On the first day of the Olympic regatta in Enoshima, the Swedish duo won the first race and finished 15th in the second.[29] 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.[30][28] The Australian duo Belcher and Ryan claimed the gold medal.[28]
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.[31] They made their first regatta together in the 2022 Semaine Olympique Française in Hyères, which they won.[32]
Anton Dahlberg is the son of Peder Dahlberg, who has won several Swedish championship titles in the 22m² Skerry cruiser class.[37] Anton Dahlberg is married to Danish sailor and coach Alberte Lindberg, with whom he has one child, and lives in Klagshamn.[38][39]
