Else Trangbæk

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Else Trangbæk (born February 7, 1946, born Thorsager in Viborg , Jutland ) is a Danish gymnast , Olympic participant, professor of sports science and sports history and sports official .

Sporting successes

Else Trangbæk was 6 times Danish champion Mehrkampf in gymnastics (1964-1966, 1968-1970), 20-times Danish champion in gymnastic disciplines during the same time, a participant in the Nordic, Europe, world championships and 1968, at the 1968 Summer Olympics .

Professional career

After graduating from business school in 1962, she trained as an employee of a bank and passed the trade exam in 1969 . After completing her sporting career, she took state courses from 1972 to 1974 to catch up on her university entrance qualification . So then she began to study history at the University of Copenhagen and sports at the Copenhagen Sports University. After graduating as a qualified sports teacher, she worked as a teacher at the sports university from 1978 and was taken on as a permanent position lecturer in 1980. In 1987 she received her doctorate in history from the University of Copenhagen, whereupon she was promoted to university lecturer. From 1992 to 1997 she was the head of the Sport University and led the successful negotiations on the integration of the Sport University as a faculty of the University of Copenhagen. In 1997 she was taken on as a lecturer at the university, and from 2002 to 2006 she was department head within the sports faculty. In 2007 she was appointed professor of sports history. From 2007 to 2011 she was the director of the sports institute, and in 2011 she retired . Since then she has been part of the Centrum för Idrottsforskning, Stockholm , as an external researcher.

Scientific importance

Else Trangbæk has enriched historical women's sport research on an international level by internationalizing the Scandinavian approach. Through this she was able to show that opening up public space by women with the help of ice skating , cycling etc. had a more positive effect on women's emancipation than career paths would have provided. To this end, she dealt with oral history at an early stage in order to interview the first generation of sports pioneers herself. Although she has significantly different positions than Gertrud Pfister , she made sure that she moved from the Free University of Berlin to the University of Copenhagen in order to advance the history of women's sports. With her film productions , she has also popularized sports and sports history. The Worldcat has 370 titles from her.

Honorary positions

Else Trangbæk has volunteered in the bodies of sport.

  • 1984–1996: President of the Danish Sport Historians
  • 1987–1992: Member of the Research Council for Danish Top Sport
  • 1996–1999: Chair of the Danish Sports Research Council
  • 1996–2002: Vice-President of the European Committee for Sports History
  • 1997–2003: Chairwoman of the Copenhagen City Sports Association
  • 2000–2008: Member of the board of the ISHPES
  • 2002–2009: Member of the Board of the Danish Olympic Committee (DIF)
  • 2004–2012: Member of the Advisory Board of the Danish Ministry of Culture
  • 2008–2010: Member of the board of Team Denmark (= Danish top sport organization)
  • Since 2008: Chair of the Admission Committee of the Danish Sports Hall of Fame
  • 2010: Vice President Team Denmark

Awards

  • 1990: Gerlev Prize for Sport and Culture
  • 1994: Women's Honorary Award from the Danish Olympic Committee
  • 1996: Admission as a Fellow to the European Committee for Sports History
  • 2003: ISHPES Prize for Sports History
  • 2005: IAPESGW Lynn Vendien Prize for services to women’s sport
  • 2009: Honorary Award from the Danish Olympic Committee
  • 2020: Women and Sport Award of the IOC

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150615062356/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/tr/else-trangbaek-1.html
  2. ↑ http://nexs.ku.dk/ansatte/?pure=da%2Fpersons%2Felse-trangbaek(678db07c-f6be-4bc1-909b-d8f40cab5875)%2Fcv.html
  3. ↑ Else Trangbaek, Arnd Krüger (Ed.): Gender and sport: from european perspectives . Copenhagen: CESH, 1999 ISBN 8789361679
  4. ↑ Hofmann, Annette R.; Trangbæk, Else (Ed.): International Perspectives on Sporting Women in Past and Present. Festschrift for Gertrud Pfister. Copenhagen: KU 2005. ISBN 87-89361-99-7
  5. ↑ http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=Else+Trangbaek
  6. ↑ Else Trangbaek: Denmark. James Riordan , Arnd Krüger (Ed.): European Cultures in Sport: Examining the Nations and Regions . Bristol: Intellect 2003, pp. 47-56; ISBN 1-8415-0014-3
  7. ↑ http://www.kvinfo.dk/side/383/
  8. ↑ EOC SALUTES IOC WOMEN AND SPORT AWARD WINNER ELSE TRANGBÆK. https://www.eurolympic.org/eoc-salutes-ioc-women-and-sport-award-winner-else-trangbaek/ The IOC awards the honorary prize to only one woman per continent each year on International Women's Day.
personal data
SURNAME Trangbæk, Else
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trangbaek, Else
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish sports historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Viborg , Jutland , Denmark