Jörgensen, Emma Ostrann

Emma Jörgensen was born on January 30, 1996. She began to actively engage in rowing from early childhood, was trained in the suburbs of Copenhagen , was the ward of the Hungarian coach Zoltan Bako .

The first serious success at the adult international level was in the season of 2014, when she joined the Danish national team and played at the World Championships in Moscow, where, together with her partner Henrietta, Engel Hansen won the standings of double kayaks at a distance of 1000 meters. Two years later, she visited the European Championship in Moscow, from where she brought the bronze dignity award won in lone kayaks at a distance of 500 meters - only Hungarian Danuta Kozak and German Francis Weber were ahead of her at the finish ^{[1] [2]} .

Thanks to a series of successful performances, Jörgensen was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro . In a single half-kilometer discipline, she qualified from the second place in the preliminary stage, then finished second in the semifinal stage, losing to Hungarian Danuta Kozak, and made it to the main final “A”. In the decisive final race, she also reached the finish line second, losing again to the Hungarian Kozak, and thereby won the Olympic silver medal. In addition, she started at the Fourfold Games at five hundred meters with a four-seater crew, which also included rowers Henrietta Engel Hansen, Ida Villumsen and Amali Thomsen , but could not get here among the winners - the Danes took fifth place in the preliminary qualification race, at the stage of the semi-finals they were third, but in the final “A” reached the finish line only sixth, four and a half seconds behind the winning crew from Hungary ^[3] .

• Emma Jorgensen - medals at major international competitions
• Emma Jorgensen (English) - page on the website of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro