Ragna Agerup

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Ragna Agerup
Personal information
NationalityNorwegian
Born (1995-06-22) 22 June 1995 (age 29)
Oslo, Norway
Website www.agerup.com
Sport
Sport 49er FX
Sailing career
ClubBurgee of Kongelig Norsk Seilforening.svg  Royal Norwegian Yacht Club
College team Burgee of Brown University.SVG   Brown University
Achievements and titles
World finalsBest Female Team, 29er Worlds 2013
National finals4 x Norwegian Champion
Highest world ranking4

Ragna Agerup (born 22 June 1995) is a Norwegian Olympic sailor [1] and a Junior World champion. She represents the Royal Norwegian Yacht Club in Oslo and New York Yacht Club in New York City. Her college team was Brown University in Providence, RI.

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49er FX career

Together with her twin sister Maia Agerup she sailed the Olympic Class boat 49er FX and competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

In June 2016 the team was ranked 15th on the ISAF 49er FX 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 was a starting skipper at the Brown University Sailing Team until her graduation in 2020. She sailed both on the Co-ed and Women's team. In 2019 she was selected ICSA Women's College Sailor of the Year. In College, she was selected to the ICSA All American Sailing Team multiple times as a Skipper in both in the Women and Co-ed sailing classes.

She has also 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, 49er FX. Flensburg, Germany

2017 - Gold, U23 World Championship, 49er FX, Kingston, Canada

2019 - Gold, ICSA College Sailing National Championship, Newport, USA

Senior career

2014 - Gold. ISAF World Cup, 49er FX. Melbourne, Australia

2015 - 9th place. European Championship, 49er FX. Porto, Portugal

2016 - 4th place. ISAF World Cup, 49er FX. Miami, USA

2016 - 5th place. ISAF World Cup, 49er FX. 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, 49er FX. Kiel, Germany

2018 - 2nd place, World Sailing World Cup. Miami, USA

2018 - 7th place. European Championship, 49er FX. Sopot, Poland

2018 - 9th place. World Sailing World Championship, Aarhus, Denmark

2022 - Gold, Norwegian Open J-70 Championship, Åsgårdstrand, Norway

2023 - Gold. Grundig Women J-70 Regatta, Oslo, Norway

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References

  1. "Ragna Agerup". Olympedia . Retrieved 17 March 2024.