Jens Als Andersen
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| Nationality | Danish | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 August 1958 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Sailing | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jens Als Andersen (born 22 August 1958) is a Danish sailor who has competed in four Paralympics games winning silver in 2000 in the single person keelboat the 2.4m / Norlin Mk3. His professional career was as director at A.P. Møller-Mærsk, the world's largest container shipping company. He broke his back in an accident in 1974 and has competed three times in the Single handed Trans-Atlantic Race (formerly the OSTAR).[1]
References
[edit]- ^ "Jens Als Andersen". Sailing Sclerosis.[dead link]
External links
[edit]- Jens Als Andersen at World Sailing (archived, alternate link)
- Jens Als Andersen at the International Paralympic Committee
Categories:
- 1958 births
- Living people
- Danish disabled sportspeople
- Danish male sailors (sport)
- Paralympic sailors for Denmark
- Sailors at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Sailors at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Sailors at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Sailors at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic medalists in sailing
- Paralympic silver medalists for Denmark
- 20th-century Danish sportsmen