Evi Van Acker
{{short description|Belgian sailor}}
{{use dmy dates|date=October 2022}}
{{Infobox sailor
| name = Evi Van Acker
| image = Evi Van Acker.jpg
| caption =
| nationality = Belgian
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1985|09|23|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Ghent, Belgium
| show-medals = yes
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalCountry | {{BEL}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}
{{MedalBronze|2012 London|Laser Radial}}
{{MedalWorldChampionships}}
{{MedalSilver|2011 Perth|Laser Radial}}
{{MedalSilver|2017 Medemblik|Laser Radial}}
{{MedalBronze|2014 Santander|Laser Radial}}
{{MedalBronze|2015 Al Mussanah|Laser Radial}}
}}
Evi Van Acker (born 23 September 1985) is a Belgian professional sailor. She has a Bachelor in Chemistry and is currently{{when|date=May 2022}} studying for a Master in bio-engineering.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}
Career
Van Acker started sailing at age 7 in an Optimist dinghy and soon started on the youth program of the Royal Belgian Sailing Club. In 1998 she became European champion in the Optimist class. In 2000, she transferred to the Europe class and placed 17th in the 2003 World Championship. Having transferred to the Laser Radial, she became European champion in 2006, 2007 and 2011 and became second in the 2011 World Championship.
She went on to compete in the 2008 Olympic Sailing Competition finishing 8th in the Women's Singlehanded Class the Laser Radial.
On 6 August 2012 she won the bronze medal in the 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition in the Laser Radial class, behind Xu Lijia of China and Marit Bouwmeester of the Netherlands.{{cite news
|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/18908163
|title=Olympics sailing: China's Xu Lijia pips Marit Bouwmeester to gold
|author=Rob Hodgetts
|newspaper=BBC
|date=6 August 2012
|access-date=13 August 2012}}
She was shortlisted in 2007 by the International Sailing Federation for the ISAF World Sailor of the Year Awards.
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{World Sailing|id=BELEV2|www=evi-van-acker}}
- {{Olympics.com profile|evi-van-acker}}
- {{Olympedia}}
- {{Official website|http://www.evivanacker.be/}}
- {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161014021939/http://www.sailing.org/worldsailor/ |title=ISAF World Sailor Microsite |date=dmy}}
{{Belgian Sportsperson of the Year}}
{{Belgian National Sports Merit Award}}
{{Flemish Sportsjewel}}
{{Vlaamse Reus}}
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Category:Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Laser Radial
Category:Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Laser Radial
Category:Olympic sailors for Belgium
Category:Belgian female sailors (sport)
Category:Olympic bronze medalists for Belgium
Category:Olympic medalists in sailing
Category:Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Category:Sailors at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Laser Radial
Category:21st-century Belgian sportswomen
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