Henrik Blakskjær

Henrik Blakskjær medal table
sailing
Denmark
Olympic games
gold	Sydney 2000	Soling

Henrik Blakskjær (born July 8, 1971 ) is a former Danish sailor .

successes

Henrik Blakskjær was at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney in the boat class Soling, alongside Thomas Jacobsen, on the Danish boat of skipper Jesper Bank . After six races in the Fleet Race , they qualified with 45 points in twelfth place for the intermediate round , which was held in the Match Race . They won their group with four to one victories and achieved the same result in the quarter-finals, which was also played in a group. This was followed by a 3-1 victory against Norway in the semi-finals, after which it came to the final duel against the German boat led by Jochen Schümann . The Danes prevailed with four to three and became Olympic champions .

Blakskjær sailed for United Internet Team Germany at the 32nd America's Cup .

Web links

• Henrik Blakskjær in the database of World Sailing (English)
• Henrik Blakskjær in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )