Jolanta Ogar-Hill

{{short description|Polish sailor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2023}} {{Infobox sailor | name = Jolanta Ogar | image = Jolanta Ogar.jpg | image_size = | caption = Ogar-Hill won the [[Austrian Sports Personality of the Year|Austrian Team of the Year]] award in 2014 | birth_name = | full_name = Jolanta Ogar-Hill | nickname = | nationality = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1982|4|28}} | birth_place = [[Brzesko]], Poland | death_date = | death_place = | height = | weight = | classes = | club = | collegeteam = | coach = | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | [[Sailing (sport)|Sailing]]}} {{MedalCountry|{{POL}}}} {{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}} {{MedalSilver|[[2020 Summer Olympics|2020 Tokyo]] |[[Sailing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 470|470]]}} {{MedalCountry|{{AUT}}}} {{MedalCompetition|[[470 World Championships|World Championships]]}} {{MedalGold|[[2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships|2014 Santander]]|[[2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships – Women's 470|470]]}} {{MedalGold|2015 Haifa|470}} {{MedalSilver|2013 La Rochelle|470}} | show-medals = yes | updated = }}

'''Jolanta Ogar-Hill''' (born 28 April 1982, in [[Brzesko]]) is a Polish [[Sailing (sport)|competitive sailor]].{{refn|name=OlympicBotGeneratedRef|{{cite web |title=Jolanta Ogar |url=http://www.london2012.com/athlete/ogar-jolanta-1039626/ |website=London2012.com |publisher=[[The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Limited]] |access-date=13 September 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120728011245/http://www.london2012.com/athlete/ogar-jolanta-1039626/ |archive-date=28 July 2012}}}} At the [[2020 Summer Olympics]], she competed in the [[Sailing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 470|women's 470]] with team-mate [[Agnieszka Skrzypulec]] and won a silver medal.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.outsports.com/2021/8/4/22609908/jolanta-ogar-poland-sailing-olympic-games-lgbtq-silver |title=This out sailor thought about retiring. Instead, she won silver |date=4 August 2021 |access-date=11 November 2021}}</ref> 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, Cantabria|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.<ref name="tvn24.pl">{{cite web |url=https://tvn24.pl/magazyn-tvn24/jolanta-ogar-kolezance-mowie-zeby-nie-pila-z-tej-samej-butelki-bo-bedzie-lesbijka,204,3557 |website=tvn24.pl |language=pl |title=Jolanta Ogar: Koleżance mówię, żeby nie piła z tej samej butelki, bo będzie lesbijką |access-date=25 July 2021}}</ref>

==Personal life== She [[coming out|came out as lesbian]] at the age of 21. She has taken part in the #SportAgainstHomophobia campaign launched by the [[Campaign Against Homophobia]].<ref name="tvn24.pl" /> In 2018, she married her partner Esperanza Hill. They have one daughter together.<ref>{{Cite web |date=21 December 2021 |title=Jolanta Ogar-Hill i jej żona powitały na świecie córkę. "Ma być sobą i szczęśliwą kobietą" |url=https://przegladsportowy.onet.pl/ofsajd/jolanta-ogar-hill-i-jej-zona-powitaly-na-swiecie-corke-pierwsze-zdjecia-z-dziewczynka/7bmdx05 |access-date=9 January 2025 |website=[[Onet.pl]] |language=pl}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{World Sailing|jolanta-ogar|Jolanta Ogar}} * {{Olympics.com profile|jolanta-ogar|Jolanta Ogar}} * {{PKOl profile|jolanta-ogar|Jolanta Ogar}} * {{Olympedia|121077|Jolanta Ogar}}

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