Freddy Jensen

Josva Frederik "Freddy" Isaias Ananias Jensen (born January 28, 1926 in Nuuk ; † April 9, 1996 in Copenhagen ) was a Greenland gymnast who competed for Denmark at the Olympic Games .

successes

Freddy Jensen was the illegitimate son of the Danish carpenter Jens Frederik Jensen (1886–?) And the Greenlander Sofia Blandina Eugenius (1899–?). His parents married shortly after he was born. His mother was one of the last women in Greenland to be baptized by the Moravians in Neu-Herrnhut . Her father was the narrator Jaakuaraq Eugenius (1863-1934).

Freddy Jensen took part in the 1948 Olympic Games in London and 1952 in Helsinki , making him the only Greenlandic participant in the Summer Olympic Games to date.

In 1948 he was placed beyond the top 50 gymnasts in horse jumping, horizontal bars and parallel bars. On the pommel horse he just missed the mark of the best 50 in 53rd place, on the rings he meanwhile managed it with 48th place. His best result by far was in the ground competition, in which he finished 16th out of 121 starters. In the individual all-around competition he finished 56th. In the team competition, he reached eighth place with the Danish team among 16 nations.

The results at the 1952 Games were weaker: on parallel bars, he finished in 133rd place, in horse jumping only 149th place. He finished the competitions on the floor in 73rd place, on the horizontal bar in 67th place, on the pommel horse in 65th place and on the rings in 63rd place. Even in the individual all- around competition , he did not get beyond 75th place. A total of 23 nations competed in the team competition. Denmark ranked 15th in the final ranking in the lower midfield.

Web links

• Freddy Jensen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Church records Nuuk 1915-1926 (Born boys p. 32)
2. ↑ Grønland og OL. (pdf) In: katak.gl. Retrieved February 6, 2020 (Danish, Greenlandic).