Aage Larsen
Aage Ernst Larsen (* 3. August 1923 in Søborggård , gladsaxe municipality ; † 31 October 2016 ) was a Danish rower , Olympic silver medalist, the 1948 double sculls was.
Aage Larsen formed a double scull with the Danish champion in the One Ebbe Parsner in 1948 and won the Danish title straight away. At the Olympic Games in London in 1948, the two Danes won the second run. The three semi-finals were won by the British, the Danes and the Uruguayans; Since the British and Uruguayans had only reached the semi-finals via the hope run , the Danes were the only boat that reached the final undefeated. In the final, however, Richard Burnell and Bertram Bushnell won with a four-second lead over the Danes, while the Uruguayans rowed further behind the bronze medal.
In the next two years Larsen and Parsner won the European Championship twice: in 1949 in Amsterdam and in 1950 in Milan . They also won the Henley Royal Regatta and the Danish Championships. At the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952, they were eliminated in the hope run.
literature
- Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .
Web links
- Aage Larsen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- European championships in double sculls
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Larsen, Aage |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Larsen, Aage Ernst (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 3, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Søborggård , Gladsaxe Municipality |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 31, 2016 |