the Danish athletics has lost one of its biggest stars.
Henrik Jørgensen is dead. Only 57 years old. This was stated by the Danish Athletics Federation.
Henrik Jorgensen was an active runner for the last, and it was during a run Saturday dinner near their home on the island of Bornholm, to Henrik Jørgensen was hit by a cardiac arrest.
Jørgensen, running about 100 miles a week and would ideally lace up the shoes every single day.
– I have the best workout. You can compare it with that if the other does not go in the bath, so they do not get cleaned the body. When I run, I feel that I get cleaned the body, said Henrik Jørgensen in a big portrætartikel on tv2.dk in 2018.
He is among the best long-distance runners, that Denmark ever had. If not the best.
during his all-too-short life, he reached to slide more than 500 pairs of running shoes up, and the man with pandebåndet had an indomitable will and great træningsmoral.
It made him an international star, and his career peaked in 1988, when he won the prestigious London Marathon.
the Same place he had, two years before the set nordic record on maratondistancen with a time of 2 hours, 9 minutes and 43 seconds.
The nordic record stood for some 30 years, and no dane has over the 42.195 metres faster than Jorgensen.
in Addition to the victory in the London Marathon, he won the Copenhagen Marathon twice (in 1982 and 1983), and in the Berlin Marathon, he was number two in 1986.
Henrik Jørgensen’s personal records
1500 meters: 3.46 minutes
3000 metres: 7.55 minutes
5000 metres: 13.27 minutes
the 10000 metres: 27.57 minutes
the half marathon: 1.02.07 hours
the Marathon: 2.09.43 hours
He has continued to the nordic junior record in the 10 km at 29.00 minutes, as he as an 18-year-old put in 1980
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Henrik Jørgensen’s daughter Anna Holm is also a very skilled runner. She participated at the OLYMPICS in Rio in 2016, where she was number 55 on the maratondistancen.
She feel in the midst of grief, grateful that her father died on a run.
– He was my mother’s and my great livsstøtte in one and all. A rock in our lives. It is a shock and a great sadness, but we also feel gratitude that he should die while he did what he loved: running, she says, according to Ritzau.
Henrik Jørgensen won Eremitageløbet four times. He still holds the record for the 13.3 kilometers at 38.40 1987. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix
Henrik Jørgensen leaves his wife, Mette Holm.
