Katrin Olsen

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Katrin Olsen with the gold medal from the Rowing World Cup in Ottensheim 2007.

Katrin Olsen (born January 5, 1978 in Tórshavn , Faroe Islands ) is a Faroese rowing woman who competed for the Danish national team at the 2008 Olympic Games . She was the first Faroese ever to take part in the Olympic Games.

She is the most famous rower in the Faroe Islands and was twice vice world champion with the Danish four-four . 2007 she received two gold medals overall World Cup champion in the double sculls .

Katrin Olsen was born and raised in the Faroe Islands, but moved to Copenhagen in 1999 to study medicine. She is organized in the Københavns Roklub (Copenhagen Rowing Club) and lives in Lyngby .

Her career began in 1995 in Faroese rowing in the typical Faroese boat at Tórshavner Róðrarfelagið Knørrur . Rowing is a national sport in the Faroe Islands and is also very popular among women and girls. The Faroe boats have no outriggers and no roller seats , but they are seaworthy. Katrin Olsen was twice Faroese champion in the Faroe Islands (1997 and 1999 with the sixth Jarnbardur ), but the switch to the international racing rowing boats in Denmark was "almost a shock" according to her own statements. However, her trainer Vagn Nielsen trained her on the unfamiliar outrigger boats, and since 2002 she has been training with the Danish national team.

The silver medal with the Danish double scull at the 2005 World Rowing Championships in Gifu , Japan , made her a star in the Faroe Islands. She was able to defend this place with the Danish women at the 2006 World Rowing Championships in Eton .

At the Rowing World Cup in Ottensheim, Austria in June 2007, she and her teammate Juliane Elander Rasmussen relegated the reigning world champions Fan Xuefei and Liu Jing to third place in the double scull . On July 15, 2007, Olsen and Rasmussen won the World Cup in Lucerne, becoming the overall 2007 World Cup winners.

In Denmark there have been serious hopes for the first gold at the rowing world championships since 1994 at the 2007 world championships in Munich. As Olsen / Rasmussen came in the top six in the semifinals on August 31, as hoped, the Danish women's double scull was automatically qualified for the 2008 Olympic rowing regatta . Katrin Olsen was the first person from the Faroe Islands to take part in the Olympic Games.

At the World Cup final on September 2nd, Olsen and Rasmussen rowed to third place and finished at the same time as the Germans Berit Carow and Marie-Louise Dräger .

Katrin Olsen also holds the Faroese national record for women over 2000 m on the rowing ergometer .

successes

  • 1997 - 1st place at the Faroese championships in sixth Jarnbardur
  • 1999 - 1st place at the Faroese championships in sixth Jarnbardur
  • September 18, 2001 - 2nd place at the Danish Championships in Maribo in the heavy quadruple scull
  • September 18, 2001 - 1st place in the Danish championships in Maribo in the difficult eight
  • October 5, 2002 - 2nd place at the Danish championships on Lake Bagsværd in Copenhagen in an easy double scull
  • June 21, 2003 - 13th place at the Rowing World Cup in Munich in an easy double scull
  • July 13, 2003 - 5th place at the Rowing World Cup in Lucerne in an easy double quad
  • September 1st, 2003 - 6th place at the World Championships in Milan in an easy double quad
  • June 19, 2004 - 16th place at the Rowing World Cup in Lucerne in an easy single
  • July 10, 2005 - 2nd place at the Rowing World Cup in Lucerne in an easy double quad
  • September 4, 2005 - 2nd place at the World Championships in Gifu in the easy double sculls
  • May 26, 2006 - 15th place at the Rowing World Cup in Munich in an easy double scull
  • June 16, 2006 - 2nd place at the Rowing World Cup in Poznan in an easy single
  • July 9, 2006 - 5th place at the Rowing World Cup in Lucerne for heavy double fours
  • August 27, 2006 - 2nd place at the World Championships in Eton in an easy double scull
  • September 16, 2006 - 3rd place at the Danish championships in the difficult single
  • May 20, 2007 - 1st place at the International Hill Regatta in Essen in an easy double scull
  • June 3, 2007 - 1st place at the Rowing World Cup in Linz / Ottensheim in an easy double scull with Juliane Rasmussen
  • June 24, 2007 - 4th place at the Rowing World Cup in Amsterdam in an easy double scull with Sine Christiansen
  • July 15, 2007 - 1st place at the Rowing World Cup in Lucerne in an easy double scull with Juliane Rasmussen
  • September 2, 2007 - 3rd place in an easy double scull at the World Championships in Munich (at the same time as Germany).
  • August 16, 2008 - Victory of the B-final at the Summer Olympics in Beijing (7th place overall).

See also

Web links

Commons : Katrin Olsen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Profile of the Danish Olympic participants in 2008. Danmarks Radio , accessed on February 26, 2013 .
  2. ^ Rowing World Championships, Women: Lightweight Quadruple Sculls. Sport123.com, accessed February 26, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Róðrarfelagið Knørrur. Retrieved February 26, 2013 .
  4. ↑ see also: Ove Joensen , Naddoddur (Boot)
  5. ^ Statistics since 1973. (No longer available online.) Rogving.fo, archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; Retrieved February 26, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rogving.fo
  6. ↑ The women's six Jarnbardur is the Faroese record champion. (No longer available online.) Rogving.fo, archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; Retrieved February 27, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rogving.fo
  7. ↑ worldrowing.com: Uncovering new talent during finals at the Rowing World Cup. Retrieved December 21, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Danske rokvinder går efter VM-guld (“Danish rowers reach for World Cup gold”). Jyllands-Posten , July 20, 2007, accessed February 26, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Róðrarfelagið Knørrur on June 27, 2007: Katrin sett kós móti HM og OL ("Katrin sets course for World Cup and Olympics") ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ To danske både klar til OL ("Two Danish boats clear for the Olympics"). Politiken , August 31, 2007, accessed February 26, 2013 .
  11. ↑ Official finish photo. Retrieved February 26, 2013 .
  12. ↑ Útvarp Føroya , June 17, 2006: Katrin Olsen vann silvur í HM-róðri í Polandi (Katrin Olsen won silver at the World Championship rowing in Poland) ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). There it is reported that she rowed the best time the day before, but was defeated in the final in a duel against the Chinese Hua Yu.
  13. ↑ result LW1x the Rowing World Cup in Poznan, 2006. In: www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved October 7, 2014 .
  14. ↑ Essen Rowing Regatta Club: Overall results Hill Regatta 2007 (Sunday). (PDF; 64 kB) Archived from the original on August 30, 2008 ; Retrieved January 5, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Women's quadruple misses the title. ARD , September 2, 2007, archived from the original on September 29, 2007 ; Retrieved February 26, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Olsen, Katrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Faroese rower
DATE OF BIRTH 5th January 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Tórshavn , Faroe Islands