Hedvig Lærke Rasmussen

Hedvig Lærke Rasmussen (born December 22, 1993 in Frederiksberg Kommune ) is a Danish rower who won the bronze medal in the two-man without helmsman at the 2016 Olympic Games .

Athletic career

The 1.87 m tall Hedvig Rasmussen began rowing in 2011, in 2012 she took part in the U23 World Championships in a four-man team without a helmsman and came in ninth. 2013 she won the Danish sculls finished fourth at the European Championships . In the same year she won the silver medal in double sculls at the U23 World Championships together with Anne Dsane Andersen . In 2014 Rasmussen rowed in the double fours again, but only achieved ninth place at the European Championships .

In 2015 Rasmussen and Andersen formed a pair without a helmsman and took fifth place at the European Championships . At the end of the 2015 season, the two reached fourth place at the World Championships , being the only Europeans in the final alongside British World Champions Helen Glover and Heather Stanning . At the start of the 2016 Olympic season, the two Danish women finished fifth at the European Championships in Brandenburg an der Havel . The final of the Olympic regatta was reached by three boats from Europe, the British, the Danish and the Spanish boat, plus boats from New Zealand, South Africa and the United States. Glover and Stanning won by just over a second over Genevieve Behrent and Rebecca Scown from New Zealand. Another second behind the Danes fought for the bronze medal and were four seconds ahead of the fourth-placed Americans.

In the post-Olympic season, Rasmussen rowed together with her new partner Christina Johansen to the silver rank in the two without helmsman at the European Championships in the Czech Republic, as well as to the bronze rank at the World Championships at the end of the season in Florida.

Web links

• Hedvig Lærke Rasmussen at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Hedvig Lærke Rasmussen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )