Andreas Toba

Andreas Toba (born 7 October 1990 in Hanover) is a German gymnast. He is a three-time Olympian, having represented Germany at the 2012, 2016, and 2020 Olympic Games.

Personal life
Toba is the son of former Romanian-German gymnast Marius Toba, who competed at three Olympic Games from 1988 to 2000.

2008–2012
At the 2008 Junior European Championships in Lausanne, Toba won the bronze medal with the German team. Individually he placed seventh on the high bar and ninth in the all-around respectively.

Toba joined the German senior national team in 2009. At the 2009 German Championships, he placed sixth in the all-around; the next year he placed seventh. In 2011 he won bronze on the high bar and placed fourth on the parallel bars and on the pommel horse.

He was selected to represent Germany at the 2012 Olympic Games alongside Philipp Boy, Fabian Hambüchen, Sebastian Krimmer, and Marcel Nguyen. Together they finished seventh as a team.

2013–2016
At the 2013 European Championships Toba finished seventh in the all-around. He made his World Championships debut later that year; however he did not qualify for any finals. At the 2014 European Championships Toba helped Germany finish fourth. At the 2014 World Championships Toba helped Germany finish eighth as a team. Individually he finished sixteenth in the all-around.

In 2015 Toba competed at the São Paulo World Challenge Cup where he won bronze on pommel horse behind Xiao Ruoteng and Zhang Hongtao. He next competed at the 2015 European Games where he helped Germany finish fifth. At the 2016 Olympic Test Event Toba helped Germany finish first as a team. As a result, they qualified a full team to the 2016 Olympic Games.

At the 2016 Olympic Games, Toba competed in on floor exercise in which he sustained an anterior cruciate ligament injury. Later, though visibly injured, he completed a pommel horse routine and helped Germany qualify for the finals.

2017–2021
Andreas Toba celebrated his comeback as a member of German national team after long and hard rehabilitation period at the 2017 World Championships in October 2017. He has performed on 2 apparatus (pommel horse with 12,933 points and still rings with 12,900 points).

Toba competed at the 2018 and 2019 World Championships; although Germany failed to qualify to the team final at both, they did manage to qualify a full team to the 2020 Olympic Games at the latter.

In 2020 Toba was selected to compete at the American Cup, an event his father, Marius Tobă, won in 1988. At the competition Toba placed twelfth. The remainder of competitions in 2020 were either canceled or postponed, including the Olympic Games, due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Toba returned to competition at the 2021 European Championships. He won silver on horizontal bar behind David Belyavskiy. In June Toba was selected for his third Olympic team alongside Lukas Dauser, Nils Dunkel, and Philipp Herder. At the 2020 Olympic Games Toba helped Germany finish eighth during the team finals.

2022–2024
Toba competed at the European Championships in 2022, 2023, and 2024. He competed at the 2023 DTB Pokal Mixed Cup where he helped Germany win silver behind the team from Japan. During podium training at the 2023 World Championships, Toba injured his knee and was unable to compete. Despite being unable to compete, Germany still managed to qualify a full team to the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris.

In June of 2024 Toba competed at the German national championships where he placed second behind Lukas Dauser. Later that month he was named to the team to compete at the 2024 Olympic Games alongside Dauser, Timo Eder, Nils Dunkel, and Pascal Brendel.

Honours

 * Bambi Award: 2016
 * Sport personality of the year — Sparkasse Award for the cult-figure of sport: 2016
 * An athlete with a heart: 2016
 * Solidarity Award of Manfred von Richthofen: 2016