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| Full name | Jolanta Ogar-Hill | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 28 April 1982 Brzesko, Poland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jolanta Ogar-Hill (born 28 April 1982, in Brzesko) is a Polish competitive sailor.[1] At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she competed in the women's 470 with team-mate Agnieszka Skrzypulec and won a silver medal.[2] Since October 2014 she competed under the flag of Austria together with her Austrian teammate Lara Vadlau. Together they were successful at the 470 World Championships in La Rochelle in 2013 (silver medal) and in 2014 in Santander (gold medal).
In October 2014 Jolanta Ogar and Lara Vadlau were rewarded with the Austrian "Team of the Year 2014" award.
Since 2016 she has been competing again under the flag of Poland.[3]
She came out as lesbian at the age of 21. She has taken part in the #SportAgainstHomophobia campaign launched by the Campaign Against Homophobia.[3]
