Hansen, Henrietta

Henriette Hansen was born on April 15, 1982 in the city of Hillerod . She began to actively engage in rowing from early childhood, was trained by the commune Lyngby-Torbek . At first she performed in marathon disciplines, in particular, in 2007, she won the World Marathon Rowing Championship in Hungarian Gyor. In subsequent years, she repeated this achievement several times.

She achieved her first serious success at the international level in sprint rowing in the 2008 season when she joined the main team of the Danish national team and, thanks to a series of successful performances, won the right to defend the honor of the country at the Summer Olympics in Beijing . In singles at a distance of half a kilometer, she managed to reach the stage of the semi-finals, where she took the penultimate seventh place.

In 2009, Hansen visited the European Championships in German Brandenburg, from where she brought the bronze dignity award, won in the standings of single kayaks at a distance of 1000 meters - only Hungarian Katalin Kovacs and German Francis Weber bypassed at the finish. Being among the leaders of the rowing team of Denmark, she successfully passed the selection for the 2012 Olympic Games in London - once again at the 200-meter distance she stopped again at the semi-finals stage where she finished seventh, while at the 500-meter distance she still managed to break through to the main final “A "And showed there the seventh time, behind the victorious Hungarian Danuta Kozak by almost three seconds.

After the London Olympics, Henriette Hansen remained in the main part of the Danish national team and continued to take part in major international regattas. So, in 2013, she won a silver medal at the European Championship in the Portuguese city of Montemor-u-Velho - took second place in singles at a thousand meters, losing to Serbian representative Dalme Ružičić-Benedek . A year later, she performed at the World Championships in Moscow, where, together with her partner Emma Jorgensen, she won in twos thousands of meters ^[3] .

In 2016 I went to represent the country at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . In the single discipline from the sixth place she qualified at the preliminary stage, however, at the semi-finals stage she finished only the eighth and stopped the fight for medals. In addition, she started here in fours on five hundred meters as part of a four-seater crew, where besides her were also rowers Emma Jorgensen, Ida Villumsen and Amalie Thomsen , but she also could not get here, the Danes took fifth place in the preliminary qualifying round, the semi-finals were third, but in the “A” finals only sixth came to the finish, four and a half seconds behind the winning crew from Hungary ^[4] .

• Henriette Engel Hansen - Olympic statistics on Sports-Reference.com (eng.)
• Henriette Hansen - medals at major international competitions
• Henriette Hansen (English) - page on the website of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro