Morten Jørgensen

Morten Jørgensen (born June 23, 1985 in Næstved ) is a Danish rower and 2008 Olympic champion in the lightweight foursome without a helmsman .

Jørgensen finished fourth at the 2006 World Rowing Championships with the Danish lightweight eighth . In 2007 he sat in the Danish lightweight four without a helmsman and reached sixth place at the World Championships in Munich . In 2008 he and Kasper Winther won the first two World Cup regattas in Munich and Lucerne in the lightweight two-man without a helmsman. After Bo Helleberg injured himself before the Olympic Games, Jørgensen moved back into the foursome for the Olympic Games in Beijing , who won the gold medal in the line-up of Thomas Ebert , Mads Kruse Andersen , Morten Jørgensen and Eskild Ebbesen .

In 2009, the newly assembled four-man with Christian Pedersen , Jens Vilhelmsen , Kasper Winther and Morten Jørgensen won all three World Cup regattas, and at the 2009 World Rowing Championships in Poznan the boat crossed the finish line 0.25 seconds behind the German boat. In 2010 the Danish four-man won the first World Cup regatta and finished second in the next two regattas. Fifth place at the European Championships in Portugal was the worst result of the season for Pedersen, Vilhelmsen, Winther and Jørgensen. At the 2010 World Championships in New Zealand, the four Danes fought for victory in the first race, but did not compete afterwards.

In 2011 the Danish boat won the first two World Cup regattas in the line-up of Kasper Winther, Morten Jørgensen, Jacob Barsøe and Eskild Ebbesen and took third place in the third regatta in Lucerne. Barsøe and Winther swapped places at the 2011 World Championships in Bled , and the boat took fifth place in the final. The following year, the Danish lightweight four reached the Olympic final in the previous year's line-up and won the bronze medal.

In 2013 and 2014 Jørgensen won the four-man title at the European and World Championships. After a break in 2015 due to overtraining , he returned to the foursome in 2016, at the 2016 Olympic regatta he won the silver medal behind the Swiss together with Kasper Winther, Jacob Barsøe and Jacob Larsen .

With a height of 1.82 meters, Jørgensen has a typical competition weight of around 72 kilograms for lightweights . He rows for the Næstved Roklub .

Web links

• Morten Jørgensen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Morten Jørgensen at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Svend Bertil Frandsen: Never-say-die attitude pays off for Jørgensen. (No longer available online.) In: rowglobal.com. RowGlobal - The Definitive Site for the World of Rowing, February 20, 2016, archived from the original on November 4, 2016 ; accessed on November 2, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.