Christian Wigø Frederiksen ( Dan . Christian Wigø Frederiksen ; January 31, 1965 , Copenhagen ) is a Danish and Norwegian canoe rower who played for Denmark and Norway in the mid-1980s and throughout the 1990s. Silver medalist of the Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona, six-time world champion, winner of many regattas of national and international importance. Also known as a marathon runner.
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| A country |  Denmark  Norway |
| Specialization | canoe , 10,000 m |
| Date of Birth | January 31, 1965 (54 years old) |
| Place of Birth | Copenhagen , Denmark |
| Growth | 173 cm |
| Weight | 75 kg |
Biography
Christian Frederiksen was born on January 31, 1965 in Copenhagen . He began to actively engage in rowing in early childhood, and was trained at the Nibro Furo Canoeing Club in Skörping. For most of his sports career, starting with the junior competition, he performed with teammate Arne Nilsson .
He achieved his first serious success at the adult international level in 1986, when he joined the Danish national team and attended the World Championships in Montreal, Canada, from where he brought a bronze dignity award won in the classification of double canoes at a distance of 10,000 meters. A year later, at the world championship in German Duisburg, he already overtook all his rivals and thereby won a gold medal. Thanks to a series of successful performances, he was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul - together with Nilsson in doubles he took eighth place in the 500-meter race and fourth in the 1000-meter race.
In 1989, Frederiksen spoke at the World Championships in Bulgarian Plovdiv, where he won in two disciplines at once, in two in one thousand and ten thousand meters. The following season, at the world championship in Polish Poznan, he defended his champion title in deuces at ten kilometers. As one of the leaders of the Danish rowing team, he successfully qualified for the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona - he finished fifth in the finals in five hundred, while he scored the second result in the decisive race a thousand meters behind Nilsson, only losing to the German crew of Ulrich Papke and Ingo Spelli .
Having received a silver Olympic medal, Frederiksen remained in the main team of the Danish national team and continued to take part in major international regattas. So, in 1993, he represented the country at the home world championship in Copenhagen, where he climbed the podium three times in the double canoe program: he took silver at five hundred meters, as well as gold at a kilometer and ten kilometers, thus becoming a six-time world champion. In 1996, he went to speak at the Olympic Games in Atlanta , this time he started alone at five hundred meters separately from Nilsson, and as a result he reached the finish line sixth, not reaching the prize positions.
Subsequently, he accepted Norwegian citizenship and represented Norway at further regattas. In particular, as part of the Norwegian team, he went to the 2000 Olympics in Sydney , where he started alone at distances of 500 and 1000 meters - in the first case he reached the semi-finals stage, while in the second he showed the fifth result in the final.
In addition to participating in sprint rowing competitions, Christian Frederiksen throughout his career regularly participated in marathon competitions. He is a two-time world champion in marathon rowing (1990, 1992) and once a silver medalist (1988).
Links
- Christian Frederiksen - Olympic stats on Sports-Reference.com
- Christian Frederiksen - medals at major international competitions
- Lists of kayaking and canoeing champions and prize winners (1936-2007 )