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| Full name | Nora Brugman Cabot | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Spain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 31 January 1992 Barcelona, Spain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Class | 470 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Club de Vela Blanes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Nora Brugman Cabot (born 31 January 1992) is a Spanish sailor who competes in the 470 category. Between 2016 and 2020, Brugman competed under the United States banner before she reverted to Spain. [1]
Brugman's parents were professional athletes. Her mother Mercè Cabot was a competitive skier, while her father, Daniel Brugman, born in Boston, was an ice hockey player at CG Puigcerdà. As she began to have a passion for water sports, Brugman started practicing sailing when she was 4 years old. [2] [3]
At the beginning of 2016, Brugman formed a duo with Sofía Toro with the aim of qualifying for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro that same year, which they did not qualify. [4] [5] That same summer, after graduating in Advertising and Public Relations at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, she left to live in the United States. [1] She started the new Olympic cycle competing under the American flag, but she also failed to qualify for Tokyo 2020. [6] [2] The 2020 Games would be the last with the 470 class divided by gender, moving to have a single mixed category from 2024. [7] Jordi Xammar, with whom they have known each other since childhood, [8] and who had just won the Olympic bronze medal in Tokyo, offered to form a tandem with Brugman. [7] In 2022 they won the silver medals in the World and European Championships, and by 2024 they won the gold medal in both of these aforementioned championships. [9] [10] [11] As a result, the Catalan duo qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics. [7]
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