Kristine Roug

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Kristine Roug (born March 12, 1975 in Hørsholm ) is a former Danish sailor , Olympic champion and three-time world champion .

By winning the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta at the age of 21, she set several Danish records: of all Danish sportsmen and women, she was the youngest summer Olympian to ever win a gold medal; she was the first Danish woman to receive this medal in sailing and she was Denmark's first Olympic champion in 48 years.

Athletic career

Furesee (Furesø), home of the sailor

In her youth Kristine Roug was a member of the yacht club Furesøen (Yachtklubben Furesøen) , which is located on Furesee (Furesø) in the municipality of Furesø on northeastern Zealand . The home water of the sailor is the deepest lake in Denmark.

The sportswoman began sailing on the Furesee at the age of six. At first she sat in the Optimist , a small and light dinghy for children and adolescents, which, in addition to leisure purposes, serves as an entry-level class for regattas . With this boat she qualified in 1990 at the age of 15 for the Nordic Championships off the Åland Islands and sailed to 26th place. During this competition, she came into contact with dinghy sailors and was particularly interested in the Europe , a single-handed dinghy that was approved as an Olympic women's boat class from 1992 to 2004 . In 1990 she received her first own Europe dinghy. She quickly demonstrated an extraordinary development potential in this boat and won several regattas , so that the Danish federation had temporarily considered participating in the Olympics for 1992. From 1992 to 1996 she won almost all major championships, including the 1994 and 1995 World Sailing Championships and the 1996 Summer Olympics. These successes prompted the Danish media to draw parallels with the exceptional Danish sailor and four-time Olympic champion Paul Elvstrøm .

Kristine Roug was unable to meet the high expectations that followed. The 1997 World Championships she finished in second and the 1998 World Championships in third place. In 2000 she won the world championship again and after a tenth place at the 2000 Summer Olympics, her international career came to an end. She then passed on her experience in sailing as a trainer . She also runs sailing-related courses at the Sports Institute (Institut for Idræt) at the University of Copenhagen and in advanced training facilities for teachers. Since moving to Copenhagen , she has been a member of the Vallensbæk Sailing Club (Vallensbæk Sejlklub) in Vallensbæk Strand , a municipality in the western suburbs of Copenhagen.

World Championships and Summer Olympic Games

La Rochelle . Here Kristine Roug won her first world championship in 1994
Third and last World Championship 2000 in Salvador da Bahia (Yacht Club da Bahia)

Kristine Roug achieved all successes in the Europe class. Her toughest competitors at international level were the two Dutch women Margriet Matthijsse and Carolijn Brouwer and the British girl Shirley Robertson . While she was mostly able to defeat her rivals in the first few years of her career, she often sailed after them, especially after 1996.

In her first participation in the sailing world championships in 1992 in Izola , the sailor landed in fifth place. At the 1994 World Championships in La Rochelle , she won her first gold medal. Her greatest rival of those years, Margriet Matthijsse, came third. A year later in North Shore City she won again at the world championship. Margriet Matthijsse crossed the finish line directly behind her in silver. The same result was achieved in the sailing area of Savannah at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta : the gold medal for Kristine Roug and the silver medal for Margriet Matthijsse. At the 1997 World Championships in San Francisco , Matthijsse was able to turn the order around and relegated Roug to second place.

In the years that followed, Carolijn Brouwer and Shirley Robertson moved forward. Roug finished the 1998 World Championships in Travemünde with a bronze medal, gold went to Brouwer and silver to Robertson. 1999 in Melbourne she was without a World Cup medal, while her toughest competitors with gold (Matthijsse) and bronze (Robertson) went out of the competition. In the following year, Kristine Roug built on her great successes and won her third World Cup gold medal. At this World Cup in Salvador da Bahia in 2000 , the two Dutch women did not make it into the medal ranks, with Shirley Robertson second. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney , the Danish “Sailor of the Years” came tenth in 1994 and 1996, while Robertson was honored with the gold medal and Matthijsse with the silver medal in the Olympic Sailing Shore in Rushcutters Bay.

Kristine Roug's successes at the Olympics and the World Championships were joined by victories in many other regattas, including wins at the Kieler Woche in 1997, 1999 and 2000 (in between, in 1998, Carolijn Brouwer won the Kieler Woche).

Overview

WM = Sailing World Championships (only places one to three), OLY = Olympic Summer Games (all placements).

  • 1994: Gold: WM Europe class
  • 1995: Gold: WM Europe
  • 1996: Gold: OLY Europe
  • 1997: Silver: WM Europe
  • 1998: Bronze: WM Europe
  • 2000: Gold: WM Europe
  • 2000: 10th place: OLY Europe

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Team Danmark ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Danish, accessed March 12, 2009) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.teamdanmark.dk
  2. ↑ a b Kristine Roug in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ), accessed on March 12, 2009
  3. ↑ a b c d ISAF Biographical Information, Kristine Roug, July 1996 (accessed March 12, 2009)
  4. ↑ Institut for Idræt, Københavns Universitet  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. FFIH - En model til idrætsorganisering i Lokalmiljøet? , 2006, page 45 (Danish, accessed March 12, 2009)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ifi.ku.dk  
  5. ↑ Gymnasieskolernes idrætslærerforening ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 949 kB) Gisp No. 109, April 2002, page 46 (Danish, accessed March 12, 2009) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.emu.dk
  6. ↑ Database Olympics ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 1996 Summer Olympics, Sailing results (accessed March 12, 2009) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.databaseolympics.com
  7. ↑ a b International Europe Class Union (IECU) ( Memento of the original dated August 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Results world women (accessed March 12, 2009) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.europeclass.org
  8. ^ Kieler Woche, list of winners Europe class (accessed on March 12, 2009)
personal data
SURNAME Roug, Kristine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish sailor, Olympic and world champion
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Hørsholm , Denmark