Roman Hagara

Roman Hagara
Roman Hagara, 2008
Nationality:	Austria
Birthday:	30th April 1966 (age 54)
Boat classes:	tornado

Roman Hagara (born April 30, 1966 in Vienna ) is an Austrian sailor in the tornado discipline .

Career

In his youth, Roman Hagara spent a lot of time with his two years older brother Andreas and his sister Claudia, who was a few years younger, in Breitenbrunn am Neusiedler See in their parents' mobile home.

In 1990 the brothers achieved gold at the home European championships in Breitenbrunn and bronze at the World Championships in Medemblik.

Hagara took part in competitions first with his brother and then with Wolfgang Moser . He celebrated his greatest successes with Hans-Peter Steinacher , with whom he became Olympic champion at the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 and at the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 . They are the first team to win this discipline twice in a row. Both started for the yacht club Zell am See.

Sporting successes

Extreme 40 catamaran "Red Bull" with Roman Hagara at the Rund um den Bodensee (June 2010)

• Olympic games
  • Gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney
  • Gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens
• World championships
  • World Champion 1999 and 2 × Vice World Champion (2000, 2001)
• European championships
  • 4 × European champions (1997, 2000, 2001, 2006) and a 2nd place (2003)

Awards and honors

• Decoration of Honor in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria (2000)
• Grand Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria (2004)
• Honorary Citizenship of the City of Athens (Greece) (2005)

Trivia

In April 2018 the Austrian Post issued a special postage stamp with a motif from sailing with Hagara and Steinacher.

Web links

• Homepage Hagara & Steinacher
• Roman Hagara in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andreas Hagara: Little Brothers Fine (May 7, 2018)
2. ↑ Sports & Water - Sailing - Gliding with the Wind, special stamp