Kahena Kunze

Kahena Kunze
Kahena Kunze (2016)
Nickname:	Tine
Nationality:	Brazil
Birthday:	March 12, 1991
Place of birth:	São Paulo
Size:	172 cm
Weight:	68 kg
Society:	Rio Yacht Club (RYC)
Boat classes:	49erFX
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 1 × 4 × 0 × Pan American Games 1 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Rio de Janeiro 2016 49erFX  Sailing world championships silver Marseille 2013 49erFX gold Santander 2014 49erFX silver Buenos Aires 2015 49erFX silver Postage 2017 49erFX silver Auckland 2019 49erFX  Pan American Games silver Toronto 2015 49erFX gold Lima 2019 49erFX

Kahena Kunze (born March 12, 1991 in São Paulo ) is a Brazilian sailor .

successes

Kahena Kunze took part in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro with Martine Grael in the 49erFX boat class . In the final medal race , the two Brazilians were one of four boats that made the four top placements among themselves. With first place, Kunze and Grael secured the gold medal ahead of Alex Maloney and Molly Meech as well as Jena Hansen and Katja Salskov-Iversen and thus became Olympic champions . At world championships she became world champion with Martine Grael in Santander in 2014 and also took second place with her in 2013 in Marseille , 2015 in Buenos Aires , 2017 in Porto and 2019 in Auckland . With Grael she won the silver medal in the Pan American Games in the boat class 49erFX 2015 in Toronto and the gold medal in Lima in 2019 .

In 2014 the World Sailing Association named Kunze and Grael as World Sailors of the Year .

Web links

Commons : Kahena Kunze  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kahena Kunze in the database of World Sailing (English)
• Kahena Kunze in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Martine Grael and Kahena Kunze, Gold Medal Rio de Janeiro 2016, 49erFX

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tatjana Pokorny: In Papa's footsteps: Martine follows Torben. In: yacht.de. November 5, 2014, accessed February 26, 2020 .