Josefin Olsson
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| Full name | Josefin Anna Louise Olsson | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 August 1989 Nyköping, Sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 172 cm (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club |  Royal Swedish Yacht Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Josefin Anna Louise Olsson (born 23 August 1989) is a Swedish sailor primarily focusing on single-handed dinghies, who won a silver medal in the Laser Radial event at the 2020 Summer Olympics and also holds a silver medal from the Laser Radial World Championship and a World champion title from the Europe class.
Josefin Anna Louise Olsson was born 23 August 1989 in Saint Nicholas parish in Nyköping, Sweden.[1][2] She started sailing in Oxelösunds Segelsällskap in nearby Oxelösund.[3] She won the 2008 Europe World Championships in Vila Real de Santo António, Portugal, ahead of Danish Anne-Marie Rindom and Anette Viborg Andreasen.[4] In 2008, she was awarded the Halvan trophy for best position by a youth Swedish sailor by the Swedish Sailing Federation.[5]
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's Laser Radial class, finishing in 18th place.[1] Olsson continued sailing the Laser Radial for the next Olympic cycle, and in September 2014, she won a silver medal at the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships in Santander, Spain, behind Marit Bouwmeester of the Netherlands.[6]
She competed in the same event at the 2016 Olympics, finishing in sixth place.[1] She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo 2021, competing in Laser Radial.[7] This time, she won a silver medal after having won the medal race.[8]
In 2024, Olsson was again qualified for the Olympic sailing event and carried the Swedish flag during the opening ceremony.[9] In the Laser Radial event, she finished 17th.[10]
