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Henriette Engel Hansen

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Henriette Engel Hansen
Hansen at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Born15 April 1982 (1982-04-15) (age 42)
Hillerød, Denmark[1]
Height176 cm (5 ft 9 in)[2]
Weight80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
SportCanoe sprint
Club361 Kano- og Kajakklub[3]
Coached byZoltán Bakó (national)[3]
Medal record
Representing  Denmark
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2014 Moscow K-2 1000 m
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2013 Portugal K-1 1000 m

Henriette Engel Hansen (born 15 April 1982) is a world champion Danish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist. She and team-mate Emma Aastrand Jørgensen won the K-2 1000 m title at the 2014 World Championships.[4]

At the 2008 Summer Olympics, she was eliminated in the K-1 500 m semifinals. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she was eliminated in the K-1 200 m semifinals and placed seventh in the K-1 500 m event.[1] At the 2016 Olympics she competed in the K-1 200 m and K-4 500 m and placed sixth in the latter event.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Henriette Engel Hansen. sports-reference.com
  2. ^ a b Henriette Hansen. rio2016.com
  3. ^ a b Henriette Hansen. nbcolympics.com
  4. ^ "2014 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships" (PDF). www.canoeicf.com. ICF. Retrieved 18 March 2015.