Siren Sundby
Siren Sundby ( born December 2, 1982 in Lørenskog ) is a Norwegian sailor, Olympic champion and two-time world champion.
2003 started off with the International Sailing Federation (ISAF ), the student of engineering to " Weltseglerin of the Year" (ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards ). The price represents the highest honor that could be given for her performance in the world of sailing a sailor, or a sailor. Siren Sundby achieved its greatest success in the Europe- class, single-handed dinghy that was olympic last time at Sundbys 2004 victory. After she was therefore switched to a new class of boat in 2005 and in this class figured no chance to take a place at the next Olympic Games, she had already announced in 2006 to the regret of the Norwegian Sailing Federation at the age of only 23 years, the end of her Olympic career, then took yet participate in the games in 2008.
Sailing as a family tradition and first successes
The home club of the sailor is the Yacht Club Soon ( Soon Seilforening ), located directly on the Oslo Fjord in Son, an ancient port town in the commune of the province Vestby Akershus.
Siren Sundby grew up in a family in which the sailing took a great tradition. Her older brother Christoffer Sundby operational sailing as a competitive sport and achieved his best result by winning the gold medal at the World Sailing Championships in 1997 in the Europe class. The brother, the Siren Sundby referred to as her idol and she especially motivated for sailing, left her first own boat, an Optimist. The Optimist is a small and lightweight dinghy for children and adolescents who serves as the entry class for the regatta next recreational purposes. In this boat they began at the age of six years with the sailing. At the age of ten she took in 1992 on her first sailing regatta. In 1995 her first major international regatta, the Optimist International Optimist Dinghy World Championships Association ( IODA ). A year later in 1996 she won the Optimist European Championships IODA the first major competition and in 1997 she finished this youth competition again with the first place.
Switch to the Europe class
After the success in the youth boat Siren Sundby rose in the boot class Europe, a single-handed dinghy, which was admitted as an Olympic women's boot class of 1992 to 2004. In this boat they took part in 1998 in Travemünde at the World Sailing Championships and came here on the 51st place. A year later she improved at the World Championships in Melbourne to 20 seats. Their first victory in this class, it reached in 2000 when Tuborg Spring Cup in Rungsted in the Øresund. Kiel Week, she finished in the same year on the 12th place, the World Championships in Salvador da Bahia on the 10th and the sailing European Championships on the Costa Calida in Murcia on the 13th Place. In the fall of took it at the age of 17 years at their first Olympics, the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and took part in the Olympic Sailing Shore in Rushcutters Bay on the 19th Place.
In 2001, Sundby pushed further forward and sailed for example, at the 2001 World Championships in Vilamoura as the seventh through the finish. In 2002 she improved again and missed at the European Championships in Nieuwpoort in fourth just the bronze medal. In the subsequent World Championships in Ontario on Lake Ontario, she won the silver medal at her first World Championship medal in this class of boat.
Breakthrough to the top
Her breakthrough to the top of Europe class was in 2003. Besides the logistical and organizational work, the sailor trained in this time 100 hours per month, sailing had become for them to full-time job. In this and the following year she took part in thirteen international regattas which are included in the rating scale of the ISAF, and won eleven of them, twice they came as third parties to the finish. They won the 2003 European Championships (2004 not discharged ), 2003/2004, both the World Championships and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. To their toughest rival, Finland's Sari Multala, but always remained behind their developed during these years.
At the European Championships in 2003 in Palma de Mallorca Siren Sundby won ahead of Sari Multala and Trine Julie Abrahamsen from Denmark. The 2003 World Championships in Cadiz, she won before Sari Multala and Meg Gaillard from the USA. The 2004 World Championships in Cagliari, she finished again in the first place, again in front of Sari Multala; The bronze medal went to the Berliner Petra Niemann. The highlight of their sporting careers then formed the victory at the Olympic sailing competition in 2004 in Agios Kosmas Olympic Sailing Centre. In this race, it referred the Czech Lenka Šmídová on the second and the Dane Signe Livbjerg to third place, Sari Multala came to fifth place.
Between Temporal End of career
At the successes of 2003 and 2004 Siren Sundby was not able in the subsequent period. Since the Europe- boat class at the decision of ISAF in 2004 was the last time olympian, she moved to the 470 dinghy, an Olympic two-man racing dinghy with trapeze and spinnaker. In this boat they formed a team with Karianne Melleby. The sailing European Championships 2005 in Gdynia, the crew sailed on the 12th Place. Since her partner Karianne Melleby 2006 pregnant, Sundby figured no chance to take a place at the Olympic Games in 2008 and ended at the age of 23 years her career.
The newspaper Aftenposten she said in July 2006: ". If you have ever won an Olympic gold medal, you have no interest in land on the 5th Place " Rather, they would now only once make extensive holiday with your parents in Son, then intensively devote her studies and her boyfriend Christopher Gunderson, the Norwegian world champion of 2004 in the Europe class, assist in the preparations for the Olympic Games in Beijing. Espen Guttormsen, athletic director of the Norwegian Sailing Federation ( Norges Seilforbund ), regretted her decision: " It's too bad that they do not continue to make, but I can understand it. She has found other values in their lives. "
Next in the Yngling and study
Contrary to its announcement came Siren Sundby then but in the sport of sailing back, took part in the Olympic Games in 2008 and did not rule in a speech in January 2009, their participation in the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
She continued her athletic career in the Yngling, a sailing yacht that can be performed by two people, but for which at international competitions, a three-person crew is required. ISAF had the boat class first approved in 2004 in Athens Olympic women's keelboat class. In this boat, in which they Lise Birgitte Fredriksen and Alexandra Koefoed formed a crew together, took Siren Sundby after a long break from competition for the first time in September 2006, again at a major international regatta. In the Yngling European Championship in Warnemünde, the team came in seventh place. The Yngling World Championships in February 2008 in Miami ended the crew on the tenth and the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing in Qingdao International Sailing Centre in ninth place.
Although Siren Sundby is sporty very active again, she wants to finish her studies as possible in 2010. She is studying engineering at Technical University of Denmark ( Danmarks Tekniske Universitet ), located in Lyngby near Copenhagen. My study focuses on the field of industrial design (Civil Enginnering Design & Innovation ). When asked about their hopes for the future are to the sailor that she can imagine a future career as a project manager in the field of bioenergy and wind power.
Survey
EM = Sailing Championships (only three places ), WM = World Sailing Championships (only three places ), OLY = Olympic Summer Games (all positions ).