Kristine Roug
Kristine Roug ( born March 12, 1975 in Hørsholm ) is a former Danish sailor, Olympic champion and three times World Champion.
By winning the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta at the age of 21, she set several Danish Records: she was of all Danish sportsmen and women the youngest Olympian in the Summer Games, the ever won a gold medal; she was the first Danish woman to receive this medal in sailing and she was the first Olympic champion of Denmark in 48 years.
Sporting career
Kristine Roug was a member of the Yacht Club Furesøen ( Yachtklubben Furesøen ) located in the same municipality is situated on the Furesø Furesee ( Furesø ) on the northeastern Zealand in their youth. The home waters of the sailor is the deepest lake in Denmark.
On the Furesee the athlete started at the age of six years with the sailing. At first she sat in the Optimist, a small and lightweight dinghy for children and adolescents who serves as the entry class for the regatta next recreational purposes. With this boat, she qualified in 1990 at the age of 15 years for the Nordic Championships in front of the Åland Islands, and sailed on the 26th place. In this competition, she came in contact with dinghy sailors and took particular interest in Europe, a single-handed dinghy, which was admitted as an Olympic women's boat class from 1992 to 2004. In 1990, she received her first Europe- dinghy. She quickly proved an extraordinary development potential in this boat and won some races, so the Danish Association had temporarily withdrawn their Olympic participation into consideration already for 1992. In the years 1992 to 1996, she won almost all the major championships, including the World Sailing Championships in 1994 and 1995 and the Summer Olympics in 1996. These successes prompted the Danish media to draw parallels to the Danish exception sailors and four -time Olympic champion Paul Elvstrøm.
The highly screwed it fell short Kristine Roug in the subsequent period. The 1997 World Championships, she finished in second place and the 1998 World Championships in third place. In 2000 she won the World Cup again and eased to a tenth place finish at the Olympic Summer Games 2000 finish her international career. Your experience in sailing they were then as a trainer on. In addition, it leads sailing -related courses at the Sports Institute ( Institute for Idræt ) of the University of Copenhagen and in further education for teachers. Since moving to Copenhagen it is a member of the Sailing Club Vallensbæk ( Vallensbæk Sejlklub ) in Vallensbæk beach, a commune in the western suburbs of Copenhagen.
World Championships and Olympic Games
All the successes achieved Kristine Roug in the Europe class. Her toughest competitors on the international level were the two Dutch women Margriet Matthijsse and Carolijn Brouwer and the British Shirley Robertson. Could they defeat their rivals in the first years of her career mostly, she sailed them especially after 1996 often afterwards.
In their first appearance at World Sailing Championships in 1992 in Izola the sailor landed in fifth place. At the World Championships in 1994 in La Rochelle, she won her first gold medal. Your biggest rival this year, Margriet Matthijsse, came in third place. A year later in North Shore City, she won again at the World Championships. Margriet Matthijsse came on a silver rank right behind her to the finish. The same result, there were sailing area of Savannah at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta: a gold medal for Kristine Roug and the Silver Medal for Margriet Matthijsse. At the 1997 World Championships in San Francisco Matthijsse could turn the order and referred Roug to second place.
In the following years, Carolijn Brouwer and Shirley Robertson pushed forward. The 1998 World Championships ended in Travemünde Roug with the bronze medal, gold went to Brouwer and silver on Robertson.1999 in Melbourne they had no world championship medal, while their toughest rivals with gold ( Matthijsse ) and bronze ( Robertson) went out of the competition. The following year, Kristine Roug tied again at their very great success and won her third World Championship gold medal. In this World Cup 2000 in Salvador da Bahia, the two Dutch women were out of the medals, Shirley Robertson was second. At the Summer Olympics in Sydney in 2000 by the Danish " sailor of the year " in 1994 and 1996, the tenth place remained, were honored during the Olympic Sailing Shore in Rushcutters Bay Robertson with the gold medal and Matthijsse with the silver medal.
To Kristine Rougs successes at the Olympics and the World Championships to Win joined in many other races, including gains of the Kieler Woche in the years 1997, 1999 and 2000 ( between 1998, Carolijn Brouwer had won the Kieler Woche ).
Survey
WM = World Sailing Championships (only three places ), OLY = Olympic Summer Games (all positions ).