Martine Grael

Martine Grael
Martine Grael (2016)
Nickname:	Tine
Nationality:	Brazil
Birthday:	February 12, 1991
Place of birth:	Rio de Janeiro
Size:	168 cm
Weight:	62 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

Martine Soffiatti Grael (born February 12, 1991 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a Brazilian sailor .

successes

Martine Grael took part in the 2016 Olympic Games in her hometown Rio de Janeiro with Kahena Kunze in the boat class 49erFX . In the final medal race , the two Brazilians were one of four boats that made the four top placements among themselves. With first place, Grael and Kunze secured the gold medal in front 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 Kahena Kunze 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 Kunze she won the silver medal at 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 Grael and Kunze as World Sailors of the Year . As a crew member, Grael participated in the Volvo Ocean Race in 2017 .

Several of Grael's family members sailed in international regattas. Her great uncle Axel and Erik Preben-Schmidt took part in the Olympic Games in 1968 and 1972, and her uncle Lars won two Olympic bronze medals in 1988 and 1996. Her father Torben won five Olympic medals and was there twice in the boat class Star Olympic champion. Like Martine Grael, her brother Marco took part in the 2016 Olympic Games.

Web links

Commons : Martine Grael  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Martine Grael in the database of World Sailing (English)
• Martine Grael 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 .