Jolanta Ogar-Hill
 Ogar-Hill won the Austrian Team of the Year award in 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Jolanta Ogar-Hill | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 28 April 1982 Brzesko, Poland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jolanta Ogar-Hill (born 28 April 1982, in Brzesko) is a Polish competitive sailor.[1] At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she competed in the women's 470 with team-mate Agnieszka Skrzypulec and won a silver medal.[2] Since October 2014 she competed under the flag of Austria together with her Austrian teammate Lara Vadlau. Together they were successful at the 470 World Championships in La Rochelle in 2013 (silver medal) and in 2014 in Santander (gold medal).
In October 2014 Jolanta Ogar and Lara Vadlau were rewarded with the Austrian "Team of the Year 2014" award.
Since 2016 she has been competing again under the flag of Poland.[3]
Personal life
[edit]She came out as lesbian at the age of 21. She has taken part in the #SportAgainstHomophobia campaign launched by the Campaign Against Homophobia.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Jolanta Ogar". London2012.com. The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Limited. Archived from the original on 28 July 2012. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
- ^ "This out sailor thought about retiring. Instead, she won silver". 4 August 2021. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ a b "Jolanta Ogar: Koleżance mówię, żeby nie piła z tej samej butelki, bo będzie lesbijką". tvn24.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 25 July 2021.
External links
[edit]- Jolanta Ogar at World Sailing
- Jolanta Ogar at Olympics.com
- Jolanta Ogar at the Polski Komitet Olimpijski (in Polish)
- Jolanta Ogar at Olympedia
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- 1982 births
- Living people
- Polish female sailors (sport)
- Austrian female sailors (sport)
- 470 class world champions
- World champions in sailing for Austria
- Olympic sailors for Austria
- Olympic sailors for Poland
- Olympic silver medalists for Poland
- Olympic medalists in sailing
- Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – 470
- Sailors at the 2016 Summer Olympics – 470
- Sailors at the 2020 Summer Olympics – 470
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Lesbian sportswomen
- Polish LGBTQ sportspeople
- Polish lesbians
- 21st-century Polish LGBTQ people
- People from Brzesko
- Sportspeople from Lesser Poland Voivodeship
- Polish yacht racing biography stubs
- Austrian yacht racing biography stubs