Yvonne Knudsen

Yvonne Knudsen
Medal record
Women's canoe sprint
World Championships
1990 Poznań K-1 500 m
1986 Montreal K-1 500 m

Yvonne Brandtrup Knudsen-Hansen (born August 7, 1964) is a Danish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. She won two medals in the K-1 500 m at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver in 1990 and a bronze 1986.

Knudsen also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of fifth in the K-1 500 m event at Seoul in 1988.

Her sister, Jeanette, also competed as a sprint canoer for Denmark in the Summer Olympics.

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