Lara Vadlau

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Lara Vadlau medal table
Lara Vadlau (right) and Jolanta Ogar with the award for Austrian Team of the Year 2014
Lara Vadlau (right) and Jolanta Ogar with the award for Austrian Team of the Year  2014

sailing

Austria
Sailing World Championship
gold Haifa 2015 470s
gold Santander 2014 470s
silver La Rochelle 2013 470s
bronze San Isidro 2016 470s
Sailing EM
gold Palma 2016 470s
gold Athens 2014 470s
silver Formia 2013 470s
Youth Olympics
gold Singapore 2010 Byte CII
Youth World Cup
gold Zadar 2010 420s

Lara Vadlau (born March 29, 1994 in Feldbach , Styria ) is an Austrian sailor and helmswoman . Together with her teammate Jolanta Ogar , she has won multiple world and European championships in the 470 class . Vadlau lives in Carinthia and starts for the Carinthian Yacht Club.

Career

Lara Vadlau started sailing at the age of seven and competed in her first competition at the age of nine. As a teenager she won her first major titles, including the gold medal in the Byte CII class at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Singapore and gold in the 420 class at the 2010 Youth Sailing World Championships. Vadlau stepped at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London in the 470 class with her then team colleague Eva-Maria Schimak and took 20th place. At 18 years and 128 days, Vadlau was the youngest female sailor at these Olympic Games.

After the 2012 Olympics, she separated from Schimak and formed a crew with Jolanta Ogar , with whom she quickly established herself among the world's best. Together with Ogar, Vadlau won silver at the 2013 sailing world championships and gold in 2014 as the first Austrian women's team. In 2014, Lara Vadlau and Jolanta Ogar were named Team of the Year by the Austrian Sports Journalists Association . In 2015 they won another title in the 470 class at the World Cup in Haifa .

The duo Vadlau / Ogar traveled to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro as the big favorites, but only finished the 470 races in ninth place.

After this disappointment, Vadlau and Ogar only sailed together once, at the World Cup finals off Melbourne in December 2016, where they also took the overall victory. After that, they did not take part in any regattas. On May 1, 2017, Lara Vadlau and Jolanta Ogar announced their separation in a broadcast.

Awards

Lara Vadlau with the Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria in the female form on the white dress uniform of the Federal Army .

Life

Lara Vadlau comes from a sporty family, both parents are sailors. Her father Ernst was European sailing champion twice in the 1980s. In addition, he was five times Austrian master in karate, two times Austrian master in hang-gliding and three times Austrian master in versatility riding.

Web links

Commons : Lara Vadlau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Profiles from Lara Vadlau and Jolanta Ogar. In: Tiroler Tageszeitung Online . September 20, 2014, archived from the original on September 20, 2016 ; accessed on September 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Stefan Sigwarth: World Championship gold for sailors Vadlau / Ogar. In: kurier.at . September 20, 2014, archived from the original on October 14, 2014 ; accessed on September 16, 2019 . World Cup silver in the 470 for Vadlau / Ogar. In: kleinezeitung.at . August 10, 2013, archived from the original on September 25, 2014 ; accessed on September 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ The successful duo Vadlau / Ogar split up. In: derstandard.at . May 1, 2017, accessed September 16, 2019 .
  4. ↑ 50th sporting honor of the SPK. Sports press club Carinthia, December 14, 2014, accessed on June 16, 2019 .
  5. ↑ 51st sportsman award of the SPK. Sports Press Club Carinthia, December 22, 2015, accessed on September 16, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Sailor Biography: Lara Vadlau. In: World Sailing. May 21, 2018, accessed on September 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Vadlau, Lara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sailor and helmswoman
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Feldbach , Styria