Ragna Agerup
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| Nationality | Norwegian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 June 1995 Oslo, Norway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | 49erFX | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Royal Norwegian Yacht Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | [[]] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| World finals | Best Female Team, 29er Worlds 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National finals | 3 x Norwegian Champion | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest world ranking | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ragna Agerup (born 22 June 1995) is a Norwegian Olympic Sailor and a Junior World Champion. She represents the Royal Norwegian Yacht Club in Oslo and Brown University in Providence, RI.
49erFX Career
Together with her twin sister Maia Agerup she sailed the Olympic Class boat 49erFX and competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
In June 2016 the team was ranked 15th on the ISAF 49erFX 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
Ragna is a starting skipper at the Brown University Sailing Team graduating in 2020. She sails both on the Co-ed and Women's team. In 2019 she was selected "Quantum Women Sailor of the Year" by the Intercollegiate Sailing Organisation.
She has previously sailed Optimist Dinghy and 29er.
Junior career
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, 49erFX. Flensburg, Germany
2017 - Gold, U23 World Championship, 49erFX, Kingston, Canada
2019 - Gold, ICSA College Sailing National Championship, Newport, USA
Senior career
2014 - Gold. ISAF World Cup, 49erFX. Melbourne, Australia
2015 - 9th place. European Championship, 49erFX. Porto, Portugal
2016 - 4th place. ISAF World Cup, 49erFX. Miami, USA
2016 - 5th place. ISAF World Cup, 49erFX. 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, 49erFX. Kiel, Germany
2018 - 2nd place, World Sailing World Cup. Miami, USA
2018 - 7th place. European Championship, 49erFX. Sopot, Poland
2018 - 9th place. World Sailing World Championship, Aarhus, Denmark
References
- http://www.olympiatoppen.no/om_olympiatoppen/aktuelt/page8501.html
- https://members.sailing.org/sailors/biog.php?memberid=335341
- https://collegesailing.org/news/article/agerup-named-quantum-womens-sailor-of-the-year-and-womens-all-americans-nam
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