Carolijn Brouwer
Carolijn Mariëlle Brouwer (born 25 July 1973 in Leiden, South Holland Province ) is a Dutch-Belgian sailor, Olympian and multiple World Champion. The athlete was a long time member of the Yacht Club WV Braassemermeer the homonymous lake in Roelofarendsveen, capital of the municipality in the province of South Holland Alkemade, and launched recently for the Ostend Racing & Sailing Club ( OSRC ) in Ostend, Belgium.
Life
Although Carolijn Brouwer was born in Holland, but spent her childhood in Brazil and for a short time in Zaire. In the age of 15 she returned to the Netherlands. After leaving school, she studied at Leiden University, which she left with a degree in languages and Latin American culture; next speaks Dutch Sportswoman Spanish, English, Portuguese, French and German.
To be with her Belgian friend Sébastien Godefroid in two-handed catamaran at the Summer Olympic Games can participate in Beijing 2008, she participated in the Belgian citizenship and started playing these games for Belgium. She had previously represented at the Olympics twice the Dutch team.
Sporting successes
International regattas and boat change
Your first big success as a sailor reached Carolijn Brouwer at the Youth World Championships 1991 ( ISAF Youth World Championship, Scotland ) in those days of non-Olympic boat class laser, a technically simple, but not unassuming single-handed dinghy. In the same class, they then won the 1993 sailing World Championships in Takapuna, Auckland. She was again in Palma de Mallorca before Karianne Eikeland from Norway world champions in 1996 and 1998, she repeated this success in Travemünde week before the double Olympic gold medalist Shirley Robertson, both in the Olympic single-handed dinghy Europe. In 1998, she was also the winner of the ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Award from the International Sailing Federation (ISAF ) Weltseglerin of the year. Brouwer took multiple part in the Volvo Ocean Race, a sailing regatta, which runs across the whole world. Among the many other competitions that denied Carolijn Brouwer, scored the biggest sailing event in the world, the Kieler Woche. In the Europe class, she won the race in 1998 and 2002.
Due to the strong competition in their own country by Margriet Matthijsse she was not nominated despite their World Champion title for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. As she faced the same fate for the games in 2000, she moved to the 470 dinghy, a two-man racing dinghy with trapeze and spinnaker. After they neither 2000 nor 2004 was able to win an Olympic medal in this class, she moved to in 2005 the boat class and formed with her Belgian friend Sébastien Godefroid a team in an open Tornado ( two-handed catamaran). After intense training, reached the couple who had since left on a private plane again, for 2007 in Cascais in the World Championship behind the Spanish crew Fernando Echavarri / Antón Paz Blanco.
Olympic participation
Brouwer participated in three Summer Olympics, scoring in 2008 with a 12th place her best result. She started for the first time at the Games in Sydney in 2000 and finished in the Olympic Sailing Shore in Rushcutters Bay, together with her partner Alexandra Verbeek the 13th place in the 470 dinghy. At the 2004 Games in Athens, she went into the handed dinghy Europe in the competition and came in Agios Kosmas Olympic Sailing Centre as 19 to the finish. Following the adoption of Belgian nationality they belonged then in Beijing in 2008 for the first time to the Belgian Olympic team. Here they reached the International Sailing Center in Qingdao, together with her partner and former boyfriend Sébastien Godefroid 12th in the open Tornado. In this regatta she was the only woman at the start.
Sporting competition with her new partner
Carolijn Brouwer has become close friends with Australian sailors Darren Bundock. The two-time Olympic silver medalist and six -time world champion will start in many competitions in direct competition with Brouwer. For example, at the Olympic Games 2008. Brouwer had located ( with Godefroid ) in qualifying as the second team still two places ahead of her new partner, she was beaten in the final and only came on the 12th place, while Bundock / Ashby the silver medal won. At the 2007 World Championships in Portugal, however, Brouwer hit her new partner and defending champion Bundock and became Vice World Champion; the team Bundock, who won again the following year, this did not reach medal. "I do not like it when she beats me. But I do not like it when someone else beat me, " Bundock said before the World Cup in Portugal, the newspaper The Australian. "I would like that it cuts really well here. To win gold and silver would be a dream. As long as we are there to win the gold. Out there on the water, we will give her an inch. And they are not. " About the competition of the sailors pair Stern magazine in 2008 under the headline relationship confusion in the tornado.
As President and Vice- President of the International Tornado Class Association ITA, the sailors pair strives to emphasize common to supersede the decision of the International Sailing Federation, the Tornado at the 2012 Games in London from the Olympic sailing program.