Sigrid Rondelez
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
Nickname | Sigi |
| Nationality |  Belgium |
| Born | 17 March 1971 Bruges, Belgium |
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 61 kg (134 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sailing career | |
| Class | Sailboard |
| Club | Side Shore Surfers de Panne[1] |
| Coach | Casper Bouman[1] |
Sigrid Rondelez (born 17 March 1971) is a Belgian windsurfer, who specialized in Mistral and Neil Pryde RS:X classes.[1][2] She represented Belgium in three editions of the Olympic Games (2000, 2004, and 2012), and was a top eight finalist at the 2003 ISAF Sailing World Championships in Cádiz, Spain.[3] Before her sporting career ended in 2012, Rondelez trained for Side Shore Surfers Club in De Panne under her head coach, former Dutch windsurfer, and 2008 Olympian Casper Bouman.[4]
Rondelez made her official debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she placed sixteenth in women's Mistral sailboard with a net score of 127 points.[5] At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Rondelez competed again in the same program after finishing eighth from the World Championships in Cádiz.[3] She posted a grade of 148 net points to end the eleven-race opening series with an eighteenth-place finish.[6]
Eight years after competing in her last Olympics, Rondelez qualified for her third Belgian team, as a 36-year-old, in the RS:X class at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London by receiving a berth from the ISAF Sailing World Championships in Perth, Western Australia.[7][8] Rondelez missed a chance to sail in the medal race with a seventeenth-place finish after ten opening rounds, accumulating a net score of 150 points.[9][10]