Jan Benzien

Jan Benzien
nation	Germany
birthday	July 22, 1982
place of birth	to water
size	180 cm
Weight	75 kg
Career
discipline	Canoe slalom
Boat class	Canadians (C1, C2)
society	Leipzig KC
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 2 × 8 × 1 × JWM medals 0 × 0 × 1 × EM medals 2 × 7 × 5 × U23 European Championship medals 2 × 0 × 0 × JEM medals 1 × 0 × 1 × DM medals 20 × 15 × 4 ×
Canoe World Championships gold 2015 Lee Valley C2 gold 2006 Prague C1 team silver 2002 Bourg St.Maurice C1 silver 2002 Bourg St.Maurice C1 team silver 2005 Penrith C1 team silver 2007 Foz do Iguaçu C1 team silver 2010 Tacen C1 team silver 2011 Bratislava C1 team silver 2013 Prague C1 team silver 2015 Lee Valley C2 team bronze 2009 La Seu d'Urgell C1 European Canoe Championships gold 2006 L'Argentière-la-Bessée C1 team gold 2013 Krakow C1 team silver 2015 Markkleeberg C2 silver 2002 Bratislava C1 team silver 2005 Tacen C1 team silver 2007 Liptovský Mikuláš C1 team silver 2011 La Seu d'Urgell C1 team silver 2012 Augsburg C1 team silver 2013 Krakow C1 team bronze 2002 Bratislava C1 bronze 2009 Nottingham C1 bronze 2014 Vienna C1 bronze 2009 Nottingham C1 team bronze 2013 Krakow C2 team
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 .

Anton / Benzien at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

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