Rasmus Quist

Rasmus Quist with the 2012 Olympic gold medal

Rasmus Quist Hansen Nicolai (* 5. April 1980 in Middelfart ) is a Danish rower and Olympic champion in 2012 in lightweight - double sculls .

Athletic career

In 1997 Quist won bronze in a quadruple scull at the Junior World Championships . In 1999 he competed for the first time in the World Cup in the adult class and took second place in Vienna with the Danish lightweight quadruple. At the 1999 World Rowing Championships , the Danish boat reached fifth place, just like a year later in Zagreb. In 2001 he competed for the first time with Mads Rasmussen in the lightweight double scull, and at the 2001 World Rowing Championships the two finished sixth. The following year they won their first world championship medal with bronze in Seville . At their first Olympic start in Athens in 2004 , Quist and Rasmussen achieved fourth place, having previously won their first World Cup race in Poznan. In 2005 the two started on Dorney Lake in Eton in the lightweight single, Rasmussen won ahead of Quist. At the World Championships in Gifu , the two received silver behind the Hungarian double scull. Quist and Rasmussen rowed their first world title in 2006 on Dorney Lake in Eton. In 2007, the two Danes achieved four victories in the four most important races of the year: At the World Cups in Linz, Amsterdam and Lucerne and at the World Championships in Munich . In 2008, the two of them won only a second place in the World Cup in Poznan, at the Olympic Games in Beijing they received bronze behind the British and Greek boats.

After that, Rasmussen and Quist separated. In 2009 Quist rowed in the lightweight quadruple sculls and won bronze in this boat class at the 2009 World Rowing Championships in Poznan, in 2010 he competed in the lightweight single sculls without success. It wasn't until 2011 that Quist and Rasmussen found each other again in the lightweight double scull. After two third places in the World Cup, they finished fifth at the World Championships . In 2012, the two achieved fourth place and two third places in the World Cup. The 2012 Olympic Regatta was held on Lake Dorney in Eton, the regatta course on which Quist and Rasmussen achieved their double World Cup victory and won their first world title. In the 2012 Olympic final, the two Danes won just ahead of the 2008 British Olympic champions and 2010 and 2011 world champions, Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter . Four years later, Quist and Rasmussen were able to qualify again for the 2016 Olympic Games , in Rio de Janeiro they finished tenth.

With a height of 1.73 meters, Quist has a competition weight of around 72 kilograms. He rows for the Fredensborg Roklub .

Web links

• Rasmus Quist in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Rasmus Quist at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )