Hanne Trine Hansen ( Dat. Hanne Trine Hansen ; born , ) is a Danish rower who played for the Danish rowing team throughout the 1990s. Bronze medalist of the Atlanta Summer Olympics , world champion, winner of many regattas of national and international importance.
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Biography
Trine Hansen was born February 19, 1973 in the city of Ringsted on the island of Zealand , Denmark . She spent her childhood in Soryo , from a young age she was engaged in rowing in a local rowing club.
She made her rowing debut at the international level in the 1990 season, when she joined the Danish national team and competed in the junior world championship in France, where she took the final seventh place in the standings of doubles. A year later, at similar competitions in Spain, she won a bronze medal in the same discipline.
Thanks to a series of successful performances, she was awarded the right to defend the honor of the country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona , but she could not get one of the winners here - in the women's doubles program she qualified only for the comforting final B and was located on the eighth line in the final protocol of the competitions.
In 1993, she visited the World Championships in Rachitsa , from where she brought the bronze dignity award, won alone.
At the 1994 World Championships in Indianapolis , she single-handedly beat all her rivals and won gold.
In 1995, she won the same discipline at the World Cup in Hasevinkel and Lucerne, while she was fifth at the World Championships in Tampere .
Being among the leaders of the Danish rowing team, it successfully passed the selection for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta . Alone, she showed the third result in the final, losing only Ekaterina Karsten from Belarus and Silken Lauman from Canada at the finish line - thereby winning the bronze Olympic medal.
After the Atlanta Olympics, Hansen remained in the Danish national team for another Olympic cycle and continued to take part in major international regattas. So, in 1997, in singles, she won silver medals in two stages of the World Cup and at the World Championships in Egbilet .
In 1998, she again became a silver medalist in two stages of the World Cup, while she finished fifth at the world championship in Cologne .
At the 2000 World Championships in Zagreb, she started in the standings of oar wheelless fours and took the final sixth place in this discipline. Soon after the end of these competitions, she decided to end her sports career.
Links
- Trine Hansen - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Trine Hansen - Profile on FISA Website
- Trine Hansen (English) - page on the website of the International Olympic Committee