Victor Feddersen

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Victor Alexander Feddersen (born January 31, 1968 in Gentofte ) is a former Danish rower . The Olympic champion and four-time world champion in the lightweight four without a helmsman was internationally active from 1985 to 2000.

Athletic career

At the Junior World Championships in 1985, Feddersen was eighth in the four-man without a helmsman, and in 1986 he finished fourth with the double-four. At the 1987 World Championships held in Copenhagen , Feddersen rowed to seventh place with the lightweight eighth. From 1993 Feddersen belonged to the Danish lightweight four without a helmsman, with whom he, together with Niels Henriksen , Thomas Poulsen and Eskild Ebbesen , won his first world title at the 1994 World Championships in Indianapolis. In 1995 in Tampere , the Italian foursome won, the four Danes won the silver medal. At the Olympic premiere of lightweight rowing in Atlanta in 1996, the Danes won ahead of the Canadians. In 1997 Thomas Ebert came on board for Henriksen, at the 1997 and 1998 World Championships the Danes won ahead of the French. In 1999 the Danes won their third consecutive world title ahead of the Australians and the French. At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, the French won ahead of the Australians, the Danish four with Ebbesen, Ebert, Feddersen and Søren Madsen received the bronze medal.

The 1.79 m tall Victor Feddersen competed for the Bagsværd Roklub .

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SURNAME Feddersen, Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feddersen, Victor Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish rower
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Gentofte