Carl Monssen

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Carl Henrik Monssen (born July 13, 1921 in Bergen ; † February 25, 1992 ibid) was a Norwegian rower who won an Olympic bronze medal in 1948.

Athletic career

At the Olympic Games in 1948 , the rowing competitions were held on the route of the Henley Royal Regatta on the Thames , a maximum of three boats could start side by side. The Norwegian eighth in the line-up Kristoffer Lepsøe , Thorstein Kråkenes , Hans Hansen , Halfdan Olsen , Harald Kråkenes , Leif Næss , Thor Pedersen , Carl Monssen and helmsman Sigurd Monssen finished in second place behind the British and ahead of the Danes. The Norwegians won the rebound against the Irish and in the semi-finals against the Portuguese. The boats from the United States, the United Kingdom and Norway competed in the finals. The Americans won ten seconds ahead of the British, three seconds behind the British the Norwegians crossed the finish line and received the bronze medal.

The following year Kristoffer Lepsøe, Thorstein Kråkenes, Harald Kråkenes and Carl Monssen competed in a four-man without a helmsman at the European Championships and won bronze behind Italians and Danes. Four years later, the Norwegian foursome with Svein Hansen , Kjell Gundersen , Odd Johansen and Carl Monssen rowed the silver medal behind the Danish foursome at the 1953 European Championships.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 . P. 151, note 316
  2. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 . P. 105f
personal data
SURNAME Monssen, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Monssen, Carl Henrik (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian rower
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Mountains
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1992
Place of death Mountains