Ragna Agerup (born 22 June 1995) is a Norwegian Olympic sailor[1] and a Junior World champion. She represents the Royal Norwegian Yacht Club in Oslo and New York Yacht Club in New York City. Her college team was Brown University in Providence, RI.
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Born | 22 June 1995 Oslo, Norway |
| Website | www |
| Sport | |
| Sport | 49er FX |
| Sailing career | |
| Club |  Royal Norwegian Yacht Club |
| College team |  Brown University |
| Achievements and titles | |
| World finals | Best Female Team, 29er Worlds 2013 |
| National finals | 4 x Norwegian Champion |
| Highest world ranking | 4 |
49er FX career edit
Together with her twin sister Maia Agerup she sailed the Olympic Class boat 49er FX and competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
In June 2016 the team was ranked 15th on the ISAF 49er FX World Ranking. Their best ranking position is 4th, from December 2012. Best Olympic result is 12. (2016 Rio Olympics)
After qualifying Norway for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo through her 9th place in the 2018 World Championship in Aarhus, Denmark, she announced that she would prioritise finishing her undergraduate studies at Brown University in the US instead of starting a new Olympic campaign.
College Sailing career edit
Ragna was a starting skipper at the Brown University Sailing Team until her graduation in 2020. She sailed both on the Co-ed and Women's team. In 2019 she was selected ICSA Women's College Sailor of the Year. In College, she was selected to the ICSA All American Sailing Team multiple times as a Skipper in both in the Women and Co-ed sailing classes.
She has also sailed Optimist dinghy and 29er.
Junior career edit
2010 - Gold. Norwegian Championship, Optimist
2010 - Gold. Norwegian Championship Teams Racing. (KNS - Maia Agerup, Line Flem Høst, Sophie Tjøm)
2013 - Gold. Norwegian Championship, 29er
2013 - 12th place and winner of the Female Class. 29er World Championship. Aarhus, Denmark
2013 - 4th place. 29er EuroCup Overall (Best Female Team)
2015 - Bronze. U23 World Championship, 49er FX. Flensburg, Germany
2017 - Gold, U23 World Championship, 49er FX, Kingston, Canada
2019 - Gold, ICSA College Sailing National Championship, Newport, USA
Senior career edit
2014 - Gold. ISAF World Cup, 49er FX. Melbourne, Australia
2015 - 9th place. European Championship, 49er FX. Porto, Portugal
2016 - 4th place. ISAF World Cup, 49er FX. Miami, USA
2016 - 5th place. ISAF World Cup, 49er FX. Weymouth, United Kingdom
2016 - 12th place, 2016 Olympic Games, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2017 - 2nd place, World Sailing World Cup. Miami, USA
2017 - 7th place. European Championship, 49er FX. Kiel, Germany
2018 - 2nd place, World Sailing World Cup. Miami, USA
2018 - 7th place. European Championship, 49er FX. Sopot, Poland
2018 - 9th place. World Sailing World Championship, Aarhus, Denmark
2022 - Gold, Norwegian Open J-70 Championship, Åsgårdstrand, Norway
2023 - Gold. Grundig Women J-70 Regatta, Oslo, Norway
References edit
- ^ "Ragna Agerup". Olympedia. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
- "Olympiatoppen har tatt ut 35 utøvere til OL og Paralympics i første uttak" [Olympiatoppen has selected 35 athletes for the Olympics and Paralympics in the first selection]. olympiatoppen.no (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 8 August 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
- "Profile". sailing.org. Archived from the original on 11 October 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
- "Agerup named Quantum Women's Sailor of the Year and Women's All-Americans named". collegesailing.org. 24 May 2019.
External links edit
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