Darren Bundock

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Darren Bundock (born March 21, 1971 in Gosford , New South Wales ) is an Australian sailor and two-time silver medalist at the Summer Olympics . Bundock is a member of the Tuggerah Lakes Memorial Sailing Club (TLMSC) on Tuggerah Lake in Long Jetty, Wyong Shire , a large lagoon on the central coast of New South Wales, around 90 kilometers north of Sydney . He lives in Berkeley Vale, a town in the Wyong Shire local government.

Sail training

Tuggerah Lake, Bundock home waters

Bundock learned to sail from his father. In 1980, at the age of eight, he won the "Inaugural Maricat 4.3 Sloop Rigged Championship". During the next seven years he sailed with various experienced skippers and perfected his skills. In 1987 he took the helm of his own catamaran and won the Australian championships in the 14ft Maricat class at the age of sixteen.

Olympic successes

Darren Bundock started for the first time at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and took second place in the Tornado (two-handed catamaran) in the Olympic Sailing Shore in Rushcutters Bay together with his partner John Forbes behind Roman Hagara and Hans-Peter Steinacher from Austria . At the next games in Athens in 2004 , he started again with his partner John Forbes in the tornado and came in sixth place. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Bundock took part with a new partner, Glenn Ashby . Although Bundock started as the world number one in the tornado class at these games, the team of the Spanish crew had to admit defeat and won the silver medal at the Qingdao International Sailing Center .

Boat class tornado

More Achievements

In addition to the Olympic successes, Bundock has won six World Sailing Championships . He was also at the largest catamaran - regatta in the world, the Ronde om Texel , 2003 and 2007 overall winner.

Sporting competition to his partner

Bundock is close friends with the tornado sailor Carolijn Brouwer , who won the 1998 ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Award from the International Sailing Federation (ISAF). The native Dutchwoman starts in many competitions in direct competition with Bundock. For example at the Olympic Games in 2008, in which she participated for Belgium , but could not place in the top eight teams. At the 2007 World Cup in Portugal, however, Brouwer, who is still sitting on the runners of the catamaran with her former boyfriend Sébastien Godefroid , beat her new partner Bundock and became vice world champion. “I don't like it when she hits me. But I also don't like it when someone else beats me, ”Bundock told The Australian newspaper before the World Cup in Portugal . “I want her to do really well here. Winning gold and silver would be a dream. As long as we are the ones who win gold. We won't give her a millimeter out there on the water. And neither do they for us. ” Stern magazine reported in 2008 on the competition between the couple of sailors under the heading Confused Relationships in the Tornado .

As president and vice-president of the international tornado class association ITA, the couple tried together to repeal the resolution of the World Sailing Association to remove the tornado from the Olympic sailing program at the 2012 London Games .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d NBC Olympics, Darren Bundock (English; accessed March 1, 2009)
  2. ↑ Darren Bundock in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ), accessed on March 1, 2009.
  3. ^ Profiles: Darren Bundock at www.australiansailingteam.com.au (accessed March 21, 2008)
  4. ↑ Quotes and information from: Tatjana Pokorny: Relationship Confusion in the Tornado . In: stern.de Olympia 2008, August 15, 2008 (accessed March 1, 2009)
personal data
SURNAME Bundock, Darren
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian sailor, world champion and Olympic silver medalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Gosford , New South Wales