The Beauty And The Beast In Her

The Beauty And The Beast In Her
The Beauty And The Beast In Her

Video: The Beauty And The Beast In Her

Video: The Beauty And The Beast In Her
Video: Dan Stevens - Evermore (From "Beauty and the Beast") 2024, March
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Where on February 16, Philipp Buhl celebrated his first world title in the laser, Marit Bouwmeester struck for the fourth time today: The Dutch woman won her world title back in Phillip Bay near Melbourne, which she had won in the two previous years first to the Belgian EmmPlasschaert (2018) and then to the Danish rival Anne-Marie Rindom (2019). Bouwmeester is full again at the right time and is now starting again as the top favorite in the Olympic regatta in the Laser Radial four years after her golden triumph under Rio de Janeiro's Sugar Loaf. She won Olympic silver in 2012. Marit Bouwmeester would love to follow her Olympic victory in 2016 in the Japanese area of Enoshimab on July 26th with a second.

Rolex World Sailor of the Year 2017
Rolex World Sailor of the Year 2017

Rolex World Sailor of the Year 2017: Marit Bouwmeester - already nominated for Olympi2020 by her association

Marit Bouwmeester
Marit Bouwmeester

Just one of the legendary pictures that Marit Bouwmeester has created in recent years. With this photo artist Jesus Renedo took part in a photo competition

The 2017 World Sailor of the Year from Friesland catapulted herself into the role of the Olympic top favorite with her victory Down Under, but also praised her team

Known as a training-intensive and athletically excellently trained lone fighter, Bouwmeester recently changed her concept and, together with three other Dutch teammates, concentrated on preparing for the World Cup and the Olympic Games. The quartet's World Cup result shows the level at which the flying Dutch women are now operating together. Vice world champion was Bouwmeester's "heir to the throne" Maxime Jonker in Down Under. Daphne van der Vaart sailed in seventh place, the young teammate Mirthe Akkerman in 10th place - the addition of the successes resulted in four top ten placements for the hosts of the joint sailing world championship of all Olympic sailing disciplines in The Hague in 2022. "We have only just started to train together," said Bouwmeester, "the level of training is so high. You put me under pressure every day. The result here is really a team effort." World Cup bronze went to Line Flem Høst from Norway.

Isaf Sailing World Cup Medemblik
Isaf Sailing World Cup Medemblik

In her element: laser radial tamer Marit Bouwmeester

Bouwmeester cheerfully described the beast at the end of the series when she replied to the question why she was punished with a yellow flag in a race: "I rocked the boat too hard. I thought I deserved a yellow flag, and then I got it too… "Bouwmeester is a master at tormenting herself for success and at her own limits, sometimes even beyond.

SvenjWeger
SvenjWeger

Laser-Radial-Steuerfrau SvenjWeger, here at the Kieler Woche

Germany's best laser radial helmsman SvenjWeger finished the world title fights in 13th place. The 26-year-old sports soldier and psychology student from the Potsdam Yacht Club, who trains under the direction of Jonasz Stelmaszyk, could shine with two top five places, but had caught some double-digit results that were too high in the most difficult World Championship conditions. Weger described the final day as "very difficult, very twisting and full of holes", on which she did not catch the spin optimally. At the beginning of the national Olympic qualification of the Laser-Radial-sailors, her balance sheet was cautiously optimistic: "On the whole, I am satisfied with the regattal's entry into our Olympic qualifying. Unfortunately, one string too many in qualifying gave me valuable points cost. " In contrast to the laser men, for whom Philipp Buhl has already competently qualified for the Olympic regattas as world champion, the women have only just started their elimination with the World Cup in Australia.

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