Jan Benzien
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nation | Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | July 22, 1982 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | to water | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 180 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 75 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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discipline | Canoe slalom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Boat class | Canadians (C1, C2) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
society | Leipzig KC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | active | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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last change: June 22, 2013 |
Jan Benzien (born July 22, 1982 in Gießen ) is a German canoeist .
Life
Jan Benzien started canoeing slalom at the age of seven . He attended school in Giessen until he was 16. In 1999 he switched to boarding school in Leipzig because he wanted to advance his sporting career. His Abitur passed successfully in January 2002. Jan then completed his three-year military service with the Sonthofen sports promotion group until 2005 . At that time, he missed qualifying for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens . He studied sports management at the State Study Academy in Riesa , supported by the State Sports Association of Saxony .
In preparation for the Olympic season, Jan Benzien returned to the Bundeswehr's sports promotion group in 2007. In the spring of 2008 he secured the only German Olympic starting place in the single canoe in four national qualifying races . At the Olympic Games he was one of the best after the heats, but was eliminated in twelfth place in the semifinals after losing a lot of speed after a risky maneuver in a water roller and in the end he was almost three seconds short of the final.
The year 2009 brought him two more individual medals at international championships with the bronze medals at the European Championships in Nottingham and the World Championships in La Seu d'Urgell (Spain). With two podium finishes at the World Cups in Pau (1st) and Augsburg (3rd) and third place overall in the World Cup, the season became one of the most successful of his career.
At the Canoe Slalom World Championships in 2011 he was runner-up with the team.
Since 2012 he has been competing in the single canoe (C1) as well as with Franz Anton in the two-person canoe (C2). They won the last World Cup in 2012 in Bratislava. At the 2013 European Canoe Slalom Championships in Krakow, Poland, they were able to reach 3rd place with the team.
Private
Jan Benzien has been married to the former slalom canoeist Mandy Benzien since March 6, 2009 . Their sons were born in 2006 and 2009.
successes
International
- 1999 - 3rd place Junior European Championships, Solkan (single, C1)
- 1999 - 1st place Junior European Championships, Solkan (team, 3xC1)
- 2000 - 3rd place Junior World Championships, Bratislava (singles, C1)
- 2000 - 5th place Junior World Championships, Bratislava (team, 3 × C1)
- 2002 - 2nd place World Championships, Bourg-Saint-Maurice (individual, C1)
- 2002 - 2nd place World Championships, Bourg-Saint-Maurice (team, 3 × C1)
- 2002 - 3rd place European Championships, Bratislava (single, C1)
- 2002 - 2nd place European Championships, Bratislava (team, 3 × C1)
- 2003 - 4th place World Championships, Augsburg (team, 3 × C1)
- 2004 - 1st place European Championships U23, Kraków (singles, C1)
- 2004 - 1st place European Championships U23, Kraków (team, 3 × C1)
- 2004 - 3rd place World Cup (individual, C1 (overall ranking))
- 2005 - 4th place World Championships, Penrith City (singles, C1)
- 2005 - 2nd place World Championships, Penrith City (team, 3 × C1)
- 2005 - 2nd place European Championships, Ljubljana-Tacen (team, 3 × C1)
- 2005 - 2nd place World Cup (individual, C1 (overall ranking))
- 2006 - 1st place World Championships, Prague (team, 3 × C1)
- 2006 - 4th place European Championships, L'Argentière-la-Bessée (individual, C1)
- 2006 - 1st place European Championships, L'Argentière-la-Bessée (team, 3 × C1)
- 2006 - 4th place World Cup (individual, C1 (overall ranking))
- 2007 - 4th place World Championships, Foz do Iguaçu (individual, C1)
- 2007 - 2nd place World Championships, Foz do Iguaçu (team, 3 × C1)
- 2007 - 5th place European Championships, Liptovský Mikuláš (individual, C1)
- 2007 - 2nd place European Championships, Liptovsky Mikulas (team, 3 × C1)
- 2008 - 12th place Olympic Games, Beijing (singles, C1)
- 2009 - 3rd place European Championships, Nottingham (single, C1)
- 2009 - 3rd place European Championships, Nottingham (team, 3 × C1)
- 2009 - 3rd place World Championships, La Seu d'Urgell (individual, C1)
- 2009 - 6th place World Championships, La Seu d'Urgell (team, 3 × C1)
- 2009 - 3rd place World Cup (individual, C1 (overall ranking))
National
- 1998 - 2nd place German Championships, Oker (team, 3 × C1)
- 1999 - 4th place German Championships, Hagen-Hohenlimburg (single, C1)
- 1999 - 1st place German Championships, Hagen-Hohenlimburg (team, 3 × C1)
- 2000 - 1st place German Championships, Augsburg (team, 3 × C1)
- 2001 - 1st place German Championships, Lippstadt (team, 3 × C1)
- 2002 - 4th place German Championships, Zwickau (single, C1)
- 2002 - 1st place German Championships, Zwickau (team, 3 × C1)
- 2003 - 1st place German Championships, Oker (individual, C1)
- 2003 - 1st place German Championships, Oker (team, 3 × C1)
- 2004 - 2nd place German Championships, Augsburg (single, C1)
- 2004 - 2nd place German Championships, Augsburg (team, 3 × C1)
- 2005 - 2nd place German Championships, Hagen-Hohenlimburg (single, C1)
- 2005 - 1st place German Championships, Hagen-Hohenlimburg (team, 3 × C1)
- 2006 - 1st place German championships, Oker (individual, C1)
- 2006 - 2nd place German Championships, Oker (team, 3 × C1)
- 2006 - 1st place German Championships, Oker (team, 3 × C2)
- 2007 - 1st place German Championships, Markkleeberg (single, C1)
- 2007 - 2nd place German Championships, Markkleeberg (team, 3 × C1)
- 2007 - 1st place German Championships, Markkleeberg (team, 3 × C2)
- 2008 - 1st place German Championships, Augsburg (single, C1)
- 2008 - 1st place German Championships, Augsburg (team, 3 × C1)
- 2009 - 2nd place German Championships, Hagen-Hohenlimburg (single, C1)
- 2009 - 2nd place German Championships, Hagen-Hohenlimburg (team, 3 × C1)
Web links
- Homepage Mandy & Jan Benzien
- Entry in the canoe slalom results database of the DKV
- Canoe slalom team Germany
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Benzien, Jan |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German canoeists |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 22, 1982 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | to water |