Sigrid Rondelez

Sigrid Rondelez (born March 17, 1971 in Bruges) is a Belgian windsurfer, who specialized in Mistral and Neil Pryde RS:X classes.[1][2] She represented Belgium in three editions of the Olympic Games (2000, 2004, and 2012), and was a top eight finalist at the 2003 ISAF Sailing World Championships in Cadiz, Spain.[3] Before her sporting career ended in 2012, Rondelez trained for Side Shore Surfers Club in De Panne under her head coach, former Dutch windsurfer, and 2008 Olympian Casper Bouman.[4]

Sigrid Rondelez
Personal information
Full nameSigrid Rondelez
Nickname(s)Sigi
Nationality Belgium
Born (1971-03-17) 17 March 1971
Bruges, Belgium
Height1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)
Weight61 kg (134 lb)
Sailing career
Class(es)Sailboard
ClubSide Shore Surfers de Panne[1]
CoachCasper Bouman[1]

Rondelez made her official debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she placed sixteenth in women's Mistral sailboard with a net score of 127 points.[5] At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Rondelez competed again in the same program after finishing eighth from the World Championships in Cadiz.[3] She posted a grade of 148 net points to end the eleven-race opening series with an eighteenth-place finish.[6]

Eight years after competing in her last Olympics, Rondelez qualified for her third Belgian team, as a 36-year-old, in the RS:X class at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London by receiving a berth from the ISAF Sailing World Championships in Perth, Western Australia.[7][8] Rondelez missed a chance to sail in the medal race with a seventeenth-place finish after ten opening rounds, accumulating a net score of 150 points.[9][10]

References
  1. "Sigrid Rondelez". London 2012. Archived from the original on 7 April 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
  2. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Sigrid Rondelez". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
  3. "Voile Sigrid Rondelez qualifiée pour les JO" [Sailor Sigrid Rondelez qualified for the Olympics] (in French). La Dernière Heure. 22 September 2003. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  4. "Evi van Acker: "Ik heb reële medaillekansen in Londen"" [Evi van Acker: "I have real medal chances in London"] (in Dutch). Het Laatste Nieuws. 3 July 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  5. "Sydney 2000: Sailing – Women's Mistral One Design Class" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 81. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
  6. "Women's Mistral Sailboard". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  7. Cendrowicz, Leo (18 July 2012). "Irina Konstantinova-Bontemps Set For Fourth Olympic Games". Flanders Today. Archived from the original on 8 September 2013. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  8. "Windsurfster Sigrid Rondelez haalt BOIC-norm voor Londen" [Windsurfer Sigrid Rondelez gets an Olympic ticket to London] (in Dutch). Het Laatste Nieuws. 8 July 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  9. "Women's RS:X". London 2012. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
  10. "Sigrid Rondelez 17e op Olympische Spelen van Londen in RS:X" [Sigrid Rondelez finished 17th in RS:X at the Olympic Games in London] (in Dutch). Bloso. 5 August 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
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