| Name |
Roman HAGARA |
Hans Peter STEINACHER |
| Date of Birth |
24227 |
25090 |
| Place of Birth |
Vienna |
Zell |
| Profession |
Sailor |
Sailor |
| ISAF Sailor ID |
AUTRH1 |
|
| Age started sailing |
10 |
11 |
| First boat sailed |
Hobie 16 |
Laser Radial |
| Age started racing |
14 |
15 |
| First boat raced |
Hobie 16 |
Laser |
| What inspired you to take up sailing? |
Our lakes in Austria |
A nice lake |
| How did you buy your first boat? |
With the help of my parents |
Friend |
| Which was your first sailing club? |
Yacht Club Breiten Brunn |
YC Zell Amsee |
| First Event competed in and Year |
Austrian Hobie 16 Nationals in 1980 |
Austrian Laser Youth Championship in 1983 |
| First Event won and Year |
|
Austrian Laser Youth Competition in 1984 |
| Principle achievements |
Go for Gold |
Never give up, two for one |
| Detail the personal highlights of your sailing career to date |
Winning the first worlds in the Tornado in 1987 in Kiel as a crew |
2004 Gold Medal in the Tornado in Athens |
| Detail the personal highlights of your sailing career to date |
Tornado World Champion - 1999 |
2000 Gold Medal in the Tornado in Sydney |
| Detail the personal highlights of your sailing career to date |
Olympic Gold Medal in Sydney - 2000 |
1999 - 1st Tornado World Championship |
| Detail the personal highlights of your sailing career to date |
Olympic Gold Medal in Athens - 2004 |
2000 and 2001 - 2nd Tornado World Championship |
| What are your future sailing aspirations? |
Beijing 2008, Volvo Ocean Race or America's Cup |
More Tornado racing, Volvo Ocean Race and America's Cup |
| Briefly state what sailing means to you |
Sailing became the most important dreams in my life |
It is the best sport in nature without doping problems |
| Who has had the greatest impact or inspiration in your sailing career and why? |
My coach Georg FUNDAK and all my friends who helped me for the last years. |
The first time sailing in 35 knots |
| Who do you consider to be your sailing hero? |
Paul ELVSTRÖM |
|
| What other sports do you participate in outside of sailing? |
Mountain biking and running |
Mountain biking and ice hockey |
| Who do you consider to be the greatest sailor in the World and why? |
Paul ELVSTRÖM. He is the most fair and gentleman sailor I have ever sailed against. |
First ever multihull open winners of two consecutive Olympic gold medals |
| Briefly state what being nominated for the ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Award 2004 means to you |
It is a great honour to be nominated as a World Sailor of the Year 2004 |
It's a great pleasure |
| If voted as the ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year 2004, briefly say what will this mean to you? |
Among the two gold medals at the Olympic Games it would be a great honour, once in a lifetime to win the world sailor of the year. |
First time multihull sailor - that's history! |
Roman HAGARA and Hans Peter STEINACHER have been at the top of their game for many years and over the last twelve months have further illustrated why they are double Olympic gold medallists. Hagara and Steinacher achieved top ten finishes at all the ISAF Graded events they have contested over the last twelve months, including wins at two ISAF Grade 1 events.
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