Nora Brugman
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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]
Career
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]
References
- ^ a b "Nora Brugman: "A unos Juegos Olímpicos no se puede llegar con ningún punto débil"". Mundo Deportivo. 31 July 2023. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
- ^ a b "Quién es Nora Brugman, una novata en los Juegos que aspira al oro" (in Spanish). Onda Cero. 5 August 2024. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
- ^ "Los orígenes de Nora Brugman: donde nació y de dónde son sus padres" (in Spanish). Relevo. 28 July 2024. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
- ^ "La catalana Nora Brugman, nueva tripulante de Sofía Toro" (in Spanish). RFEV. 13 January 2016. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
- ^ UCAM Deportes, ed. (28 April 2016). "Sofía Toro y Nora Brugman, a por nuevos desafíos" (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 August 2024.
- ^ "Team Brugman". St. Francis Sailing Foundation. 18 December 2017. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
- ^ a b c "Nora Brugman, que buscará el oro en los Juegos de París con Jordi Xammar: "La vela te enseña a solucionar las cosas por ti misma"" (in Spanish). La Razón. 21 May 2024. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
- ^ Padilla, Toni (7 August 2024). "Xammar i Brugman, dos amics de tota la vida a un pas de la medalla" (in Catalan). Retrieved 7 August 2024.
- ^ "2022 470 European Championship". 2022europeans.470.org.
- ^ "2024 470 European Championship". 2024europeans.470.org.
- ^ "Nora Brugman Cabot - Biographical Information". COI. 2024.
