Fie Udby Erichsen

Fie Udby Erichsen (born April 23, 1985 in Hobro ) is a Danish rower who won the silver medal in the singles in 2012 . Up to and including 2010 she competed under her maiden name Fie Udby Graugaard .

The rower from Roforeningen Kvik began rowing in 1996. In 2000 she won the bronze medal in double sculls at the Junior World Championships together with Johanne Thomsen . In 2002 and 2003 she took part in the Junior World Championships in single, but both times only reached the B final. In 2005 she started together with Majbrit Nielsen in a two-man class without a helmsman in the adult class; At the World Cup in Lucerne, the two finished fifth and at the 2005 World Rowing Championships in Gifu they came ninth. In 2006 the two rowed twice in the B final in the World Cup, at the 2006 World Rowing Championships in Eton they reached the A final and finished sixth. In 2007 Lea Jakobsen switched to Graugaard in two, the best result of the season was a fifth place at the World Cup in Lucerne. In 2008 the two competed at the World Championships in Linz in a non-Olympic four - man team without a helmsman , and won the bronze medal in the line-up of Lea Jakobsen, Lisbet Jakobsen , Fie Graugaard and Cecilie Christensen .

In 2009 Fie Udby Graugaard and Lea Jakobsen switched from oars to scull and competed in double sculls, sixth place at the World Cup in Munich was the best result of the season. In the 2010 World Cup season, Graugaard started in double sculls and quadruples without reaching an A final. At the European Rowing Championships 2010 she finished fourth in the single. After she canceled the start at the World Championships at short notice in 2010, she finished 14th in the single in 2011 in Bled . It was only in the qualifying regatta in Lucerne that Erichsen was able to qualify for the 2012 Olympic Games with a second place behind Australian Kim Crow . At the Olympic regatta in Eton , the reigning world champion Miroslava Knapková from the Czech Republic won, behind Erichsen won the silver medal in front of Kim Crow, the two qualifiers had prevailed over the established rowers.

After a year off, Erichsen returned to the regatta courses in 2014. With a sixth place at the European Championships in 2015 , she made it into an A-final for the first time since London. Like four years earlier, she qualified for the 2016 Olympic Games in Lucerne. In the semifinals of the Olympic Games, she almost stopped after a mistake and finished in last place, ultimately finishing third in the B-final in ninth place.

Web links

• Fie Udby Erichsen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Fie Udby Erichsen at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )