Olsson, Anna (rower)

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<br><br> Ulsson (Swede. Anna Gunilla Olsson; March 14, 1964, Timro) – rower-kayaker, played for the team in the mid-1980s – late 1990s. Participant of the five Summer Olympic Games, champion of the Games in Los Angeles, world champion, winner of many regattas of national and international importance.<br>Biography<br> was born on March 14, 1964 in Timro, Westernorrland County. She began to actively row from early childhood, she was trained at a local canoe club called „Fagerviks”, and later was a member of one of the canoe clubs in Karlstad.<br><br>She achieved her first serious success at the adult international level in 1984, when she joined the main team of the Swedish national team and, thanks to a series of successful performances, was awarded the right to defend the honor of the country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Together with her partner Agneta Andersson, she won a gold medal in the standings of double kayaks at five hundred meters, while with a four-seater crew, which, in addition to Andersson, included rowers Suzanne Wiberg and Eva Karlsson, won a silver medal at five hundred meters – only the team from Romania finished better. Four years later, she went to the Olympic Games in Seoul, but this time she could not get into the number of prize-winners, in twos and fours in the final she showed the sixth result.<br><br>In 1991, Olsson attended the World Championships in Paris, from where she brought the bronze medal, won in doubles at five hundred meters. Being one of the leaders of the Swedish rowing team, she successfully qualified for the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona – in fours at five hundred meters along with Agneta Andersson, Maria Haglund and Susanna Rosenquist and won a bronze medal here, losing in the decisive race to Hungarians and Germans.<br><br>At the 1993 World Championships in Copenhagen, Anna Olsson climbed the podium three times, took silver in singles and fours, as well as gold in twos. The next season, at a similar competition in Mexico City, she received a silver medal in singles at two hundred meters and a bronze in fours at five hundred. A year later, at the world championship in Duisburg, Germany, at a 200-meter distance, she won bronze medals in single and four-seater kayaks. In 1996, she went to the Atlanta Olympics, where she repeated the success of four years ago, having won bronze in fours at five hundred meters – while in addition to Andersson and Rosenquist, her partner was Ingela Ericsson. Finally, in 2000, Olsson represented Sweden at the Sydney Olympics, at the fifth Olympic Games in her career, despite all that, she did not bring any medals from there – she showed the ninth result at five hundred meters in singles, while in doubles she became the eighth.<br><br>Her older brother Gunnar Ohlsson is also a rather famous rower-kayaker, silver medalist at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona.<br>

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