Jette Hejli Sørensen ( date , ), married Larssen ( date Larssen ) - Danish rowing helm , who played for the Danish rowing team in late 1970- x - the first half of the 1980s. Bronze medalist at the Los Angeles Summer Olympics , participant in many regattas of national and international importance.
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| Growth | 165 cm |
| Weight | 52 kg |
Biography
Yette Sørensen was born March 25, 1961 in Odense , Denmark . She was engaged in rowing in Copenhagen in the metropolitan rowing club DSR.
She made her debut at the adult international level in the 1979 season, when she joined the Danish national team and played at the World Championships in Bled - in the standings of the pair of steering fours she was able to qualify only in the consolation final B and was located in the final protocol of the competitions on the tenth line.
In 1981, at the world championship in Munich, she took sixth place in the pair of steering fours.
At the 1983 World Cup in Duisburg, she was seventh in the same discipline.
Thanks to a series of successful performances, she was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles . As part of the four-seater double crew, which also included the rowers Hanne Eriksen , Birgitte Hanel , Lotte Koefoed and Bodil Rasmussen , in the decisive final race she reached the third place behind the teams from Romania and the United States - thereby won the bronze Olympic medal.
After the Los Angeles Olympics, Sørensen no longer showed any significant results in rowing in the international arena.
Links
- Yette Hailey Sørensen - Olympic stats on Sports-Reference.com
- Yette Sørensen - Profile at FISA (English)
- Yette Hailey Sørensen (English) - page on the website of the International Olympic Committee