Birgitte Hanel

Birgitte Hanel (born April 25, 1954 in Jægersborg Sogn , Gentofte Kommune ) is a former Danish rower . She won the Olympic bronze medal in the quad scull in 1984 .

The 1.70 m tall Birgitte Hanel took eleventh place with the Danish double foursome at the 1977 rowing world championships and tenth place in 1979 . In 1981, the Danes with Christine Thorsen , Lise Justesen , Birgitte Hanel, Bodil Rasmussen and taxwoman Jette Hejli Sørensen reached the A-final at the World Championships in Munich and took sixth place. With Hanne Eriksen for Justensen, the Danes rowed to seventh place at the 1983 World Rowing Championships .

At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , the three medal winners from 1983 - the Soviet Union, the GDR and Bulgaria - did not compete because of their Olympic boycott . In the line-up of Hanne Eriksen, Birgitte Hanel, Inger Køfød , Bodil Rasmussen and Jette Hejli Sørensen, the Danish double four won the hope run after second place in the preliminary run. In the final, the Romanians won ahead of the hosts, half a second behind the US double foursome, the Danes won the bronze medal in front of the boat from the Federal Republic of Germany.

After the Olympic Games, Birgitte Hanel switched to lightweight rowing . At the Rowing World Championships in 1985 , she finished eighth in the lightweight single . In 1986 she rowed with Tina Aabye to fifth place in the lightweight double sculls .

Web links

• Birgitte Hanel in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Birgitte Hanel at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )