Stefan Henze
Stefan Henze 
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| birthday | May 3, 1981 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth |
Halle / Saale , GDR
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| size | 178 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| job | National canoe trainer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| date of death | 15th August 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death |
Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
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| discipline | Canoe slalom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Boat class | Canadian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| society | Boellberger SV Halle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| End of career | 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Stefan Henze (born May 3, 1981 in Halle / Saale ; † August 15, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil ) was a German canoeist and canoe trainer .
The slalom canoeist of the Böllberger SV Halle started with Marcus Becker in a two-man canoe . The two Halle residents became junior world champions in 1998, European junior champions in 1999 and world champions in 2003. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , the duo won the silver medal. For this he received the silver bay leaf on March 16, 2005 .
However, it failed to qualify for either the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing or the 2012 Summer Olympics in London . During his active time as a competitive athlete, Henze, who lived in Augsburg , belonged to a sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr ; He also completed a sports degree with a master's degree .
After failing to qualify for London, Henze and Becker decided in 2012 to withdraw from active competitive sport. Since 2013 Henze was as national coach in the German Canoeing Association operates.
At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , Henze was the national coach of the kayak women and looked after the German participant Melanie Pfeifer . While sitting in a taxi on August 12, 2016, the driver got off the street and crashed into a wall. Henze suffered a severe traumatic brain injury and had to undergo emergency surgery because of acute danger to his life . He died three days later from his injuries.
On the day after Henze's death, all German flags at the Olympic sites were raised to half-mast . A debate arose as to whether Henze might have survived if he had been treated sooner. A few weeks before the opening of the Olympic Games, the Medical Council of Rio de Janeiro warned after a visit to the five Olympic reference hospitals that these clinics were dramatically overcrowded. In the clinic, which was approached in vain after the accident, the neurosurgery department had been closed years ago, so that Henze had to be transported to a clinic 20 kilometers away. Henze was the holder of an organ donor card . After his death he donated his heart , liver and kidneys . They were transplanted to seriously ill patients, according to the health authority of the state of Rio de Janeiro . The heart transplant took place at the Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia (INC) in Rio .
Stefan Henze's father Jürgen and his brother Frank were also canoeists and Olympic participants.
literature
- Dirk Schmidtke, Volker Kluge (editor): Athens 2004. The German Olympic team . National Olympic Committee for Germany, Frankfurt am Main 2004, OCLC 716642956
Web links
- Stefan Henze in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- DKV page
- Becker-Henze website ( Memento from October 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release of the Office of the Federal President of March 16, 2005 .... Awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the medal winners of the 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games ...
- ↑ Thomas Juschus: Michel / Piersig buy an Olympic ticket. Lausitzer Rundschau, May 5, 2008, accessed on August 16, 2016 .
- ↑ Slalom duo Becker / Henze missed a ticket for London. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, April 29, 2012, accessed on August 16, 2016 .
- ^ A b c Heinz Böttger: Family atmosphere. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, December 4, 2012, accessed on August 16, 2016 .
- ↑ DKV mourns national coach Stefan Henze. German Canoe Association, August 15, 2016, accessed on August 16, 2016 .
- ^ Accident in Rio: Canoe slalom coach Henze seriously injured . ( Memento from August 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Bayerischer Rundfunk, August 12, 2016.
- ↑ Olympia 2016: Canoe trainer Henze seriously injured . Spiegel Online, August 12, 2016, accessed August 13, 2016.
- ↑ German Sport mourns Stefan Henze. (No longer available online.) Press release of the German Olympic Sports Association, August 15, 2016, archived from the original on August 21, 2016 ; accessed on August 15, 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.
- ↑ Seriously injured coach: Canoe trainer Henze was transported to the hospital because of savings , Spiegel Online, August 13, 2016
- ↑ Jens Glüsing: Debate after Stefan Henze's death: What the Brazilian health system is sick from spiegel.de, August 16, 2016
- ↑ Deceased canoe trainer: Stefan Henze donates four organs for seriously ill patients , spiegel.de, August 17, 2016
- ↑ Jürgen Henze portrait on the BSV Halle website
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Henze, Stefan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German canoeist and canoe trainer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halle / Saale , GDR |
| DATE OF DEATH | 15th August 2016 |
| Place of death | Rio de Janeiro , Brazil |