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Susann BeuckeHow the Olympian wants to take off offshore

Pascal Schürmann

 · 16.05.2022

Susann Beucke: How the Olympian wants to take off offshorePhoto: Pierre Bouras
Susann Beucke attacks in the Figaro class
The silver medallist from Tokyo is switching from the dinghy to the Figaro. In France, she wants to take on the international offshore elite. Download the portrait in PDF format

Just last summer, she won Olympic silver in the 49er FX. Now Susann Beucke has her sights set on a new goal: the Vendée Globe. The 30-year-old sailor still has a lot of work ahead of her before she reaches it. She wants to get closer to her goal in France. She has chartered a Figaro there, is training there, is studying with like-minded people at a renowned school for promising regatta cracks and is taking part in her first regattas there.

YACHT author Andreas Wolfers visited Beucke on the Atlantic coast. He reports on the enormous challenges that the young German has to face at the training camp. He describes what drives her, who she works with, how she copes with setbacks and what gives her strength, courage and hope.

His insightful and exciting portrait of Susann Beucke can now be read in YACHT, issue 9/2022, available as a digital edition in the YACHT app and can be ordered directly here. Or you can download the portrait directly via the link below.

Downloads:

Beucke, Susann: Regatta sailor, portrait (pdf)

Pascal Schürmann

Pascal Schürmann

Editor YACHT

Pascal Schürmann joined YACHT in Hamburg in 2001. As head of copywriting and head of the editorial team, he makes sure that all articles make it into the magazine on time and that they are both informative and entertaining to read. He was born in the Bergisches Land region near Cologne. He learned how to handle the tiller and sheet as a teenager in a touring dinghy on the Sneeker Meer and on a tall ship on the IJsselmeer. During and after his studies, he sailed on the Baltic Sea and in the Mediterranean. As a trained business journalist, he is also responsible for boat financing and yacht insurance reports at YACHT, but also has a soft spot for blue water topics.

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