Bodil Steen Rasmussen ( d. Bodil Steen Rasmussen ; born , ) - Danish rower , speaking for the Danish team in rowing in the late 1970s - first half of the 1980s . Bronze medalist of the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles , the participant of many regattas of national and international importance.
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Club | DSR ( Copenhagen ) |
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Growth | 167 cm |
Weight | 63 kg |
Biography
Bodil Rasmussen was born on December 12, 1957 in the city of Fredericia , Denmark . Engaged in rowing in Copenhagen in the capital rowing club DSR.
She made her debut at the adult international level in the 1979 season, when she entered the main team of the Danish national team and performed at the World Championships in Bled - in the standings of the pair of fours, she managed to qualify only for consolation B and settled down in the final protocol on the tenth line.
In 1981, at the world championship in Munich, she took the sixth place in the pair of fours.
At the 1983 World Championships in Duisburg, she was in the same seventh discipline.
Thanks to a series of successful performances, she won the right to defend the honor of the country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles . As part of a four-seater double crew, which also included rowers Hanne Eriksen , Birgitte Hanel , Lotte Koefoed and helmsman Yette Sorensen , in the decisive final race came to the third behind the teams from Romania and the United States - thereby winning the bronze Olympic medal.
After the Los Angeles Olympics, Rasmussen no longer showed any significant results in rowing in the international arena.
Links
- Bodil Steen Rasmussen - Olympic statistics on Sports-Reference.com (English)
- Bodil Rasmussen - FISA Profile (English)
- Bodil Steen Rasmussen (English) - page on the website of the International Olympic Committee