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Sparta (Athletic Club)
Sparta Atletik () is a Danish track and field club, and one of the leading clubs in Denmark. The club is known for winning the major part of the individual medals at the Danish championships, and having the most athletes represented on the different national teams. The most famous athlete ever to have represented Sparta is the former 800 metres world record-holder and current 1000 and 800 metres distance indoors world record-holder Wilson Kipketer, who won gold medals representing Sparta in three successive editions of the IAAF World Championships in Athletics, and took medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Kipketer's 800 meters world record on an outdoor track stood undefeated for almost 13 years. Other famous athletes * Piotr Buciarski * Mogens Guldberg * Juliane Hvid * Dennis Jensen * Morten Jensen * Christina Scherwin * Rikke Rønholt * Søren Wulff Johansson Søren Wulff Johansson (26 August 1971 – 8 August 2020) was a D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Example
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Piotr Buciarski
Piotr Buciarski (born 22 November 1975 in Warsaw, Poland) is a retired Danish pole vaulter of Polish descent. His personal best jump is 5.75 metres, achieved in April 2002 in Fort-de-France. This is the current national record. He represented Sparta and later the University of Oregon. Buciarski is a two-time national champion (2000 and 2002) in the men's decathlon. He's the son of former Polish pole vaulter, Wojciech Buciarski Wojciech Jan Buciarski (born 17 April 1950) is a retired Polish pole vaulter. He competed at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics and finished in tenth and fifth place, respectively. He won a silver medal at the 1975 European Athletics Indoor Championship .... He is married to an American javelin thrower, Rachel Yurkovich. Competition record References *Profile 1975 births Living people Danish male pole vaulters Danish decathletes Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Denmark Polish emigrants to Denmark Athle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports Clubs And Teams In Copenhagen
Sport is a physical activity or game, often Competition, competitive and organization, organized, that maintains or improves physical ability and skills. Sport may provide enjoyment to participants and entertainment to spectators. The number of participants in a particular sport can vary from hundreds of people to a single individual. Sport competitions may use a team or single person format, and may be Open (sport), open, allowing a broad range of participants, or closed, restricting participation to specific groups or those invited. Competitions may allow a "tie" or "draw", in which there is no single winner; others provide tie-breaking methods to ensure there is only one winner. They also may be arranged in a tournament format, producing a champion. Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a regular sports season, followed in some cases by playoffs. Sport is generally recognised as system of activities based in physical athleticism or physical de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletics Clubs In Denmark
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Søren Wulff Johansson
Søren Wulff Johansson (26 August 1971 – 8 August 2020) was a Danish decathlete. He was the first Danish person to receive a lifetime ban from sport, after failing doping tests for anabolic steroids in 1989 and 1995. Johansson was a two-time Danish Athletics Championships winner. He was the athletics pentathlon champion in 1994 and the decathlon champion in 1995. His personal best performance in the decathlon was 6982 points. Decathlon2000. Retrieved on 2016-04-11. He was a member of several athletics clubs: Aalborg AK until 1989, Trongården in the 1991/1992 season, |
Rikke Rønholt
Rikke Rønholt (born 1 January 1976) is a Danish athlete. She is a part of Sparta Athletics team. She started doing athletics when she was 12 years old. Back then she participated in events from 60 metres to heptathlon and shot put. When she ran her first 400 metres hurdles she was less than a second from qualifying for the European Junior Championships. She represents Sparta. She competed at the 1997 World Championships, the European Championships in 2002 and 2006 and the European Indoor Championships in 2005 and 2007. Records Danish senior records: * 400 metres 52.84 s * 400 metres hurdles The 400 metres hurdles is a track and field hurdling event. The event has been on the Summer Olympics, Olympic Sport of athletics, athletics programme since 1900 Summer Olympics, 1900 for men and since 1984 Summer Olympics, 1984 for women. On a ... (76,2 cm) 57.04 s * 4 x 400 metres 3:38,65 min. 23-06-2001 Danish senior records indoor: * 400 metres 54.71 s Dani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christina Scherwin
Christina Scherwin (born 11 July 1976) is a Danish former javelin thrower and two-time Olympian. She is the Danish record holder in women's javelin. Career In her junior years Scherwin placed 6th at the 1993 European Junior Championships and 5th at the 1994 World Junior Championships. She was the NCAA Division III national women's javelin champion with Moravian University in 2002 and 2003, as well as record-holder. At the 2003 World University games in Daegu she finished second, throwing 56.08 metres. Scherwin represented Sparta at club level. In July 2004 Scherwin qualified for the javelin at the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics by throwing 59.36 metres, a Danish national record. She threw 56.86 metres at the Olympics, placing her 29th overall. In July 2005 Scherwin threw the javelin 61.68 metres at the Danish national championships, breaking her national record. At August's 2005 World Championships in Helsinki, she threw the javelin 63.43 meters, placing fourth overall in the ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morten Jensen (athlete)
Morten Jensen (born 2 December 1982 in Lynge) is a Danish former track and field athlete. He specialised in the long jump and also competed in the 100 metres and 200 metres sprints. He holds the Danish record in the long jump and formerly held the national records in the 100 metres and indoor 200 metres. He competed at the World Championships in Athletics in 2005 and 2007, the 2006 World Indoor Championships, the 2006 European Championships, the 2007 World Championships, and the 2008 Olympic Games without qualifying for the final round. He was runner-up in the 2010 Finnish Elite Games rankings, just missing out on Levern Spencer for that year's jackpot.Sonninen, A-P (2010-08-22)Spencer takes the Finnish Elite Games jackpot in Joensuu IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-08-24. He has been a part of the Sparta team since 2005, before then he was a part of FIF Hillerød. His coach was Leif Dahlberg after the 2010 European Championships he changed to Lars Nielsen and Anders Møller. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Jensen (athlete)
Dennis Jensen (born 11 September 1969) is a retired Danish long-distance runner who specializes in 5000 and 10,000 metres races. He represented Sparta. Jensen won a number of medals at the Nordic Cross Country Championships The Nordic Cross Country Championships is an annual international cross country running competition that is contested between the Nordic countries. The championships are generally held in mid-November and the host nation rotates every year between ...: winning the competition in 2000 and taking the bronze in 1997, 1998 and 2001. He finished eleventh in the 10,000 metres at the 2002 European Championships. Jensen is a seven-time national champion (1997-2003) in the men's 5,000 metres. Personal bests *3000 metres - 7:52.09 min (2001) *5000 metres - 13:25.39 min (2000) - national record. *10,000 metres - 28:08.64 min (2002) References * 1969 births Living people Danish male long-distance runners Danish male marathon runners Danish male cross countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juliane Hvid
Juliane Falsig Hvid (born 8 April 1998) is a Danish steeplechase runner specializing in the 3000 metres steeplechase. She won the 2023 Nordic Athletics Championships in the steeplechase and has represented Denmark at the 2023 World Athletics Championships. In addition to her athletics career, she is the reigning Nordic military pentathlon champion. Career Hvid began her career as a long-distance runner on the roads, finishing 74th at the 2021 Copenhagen Half Marathon. After an 8th-place finish at the 2022 Danish 10K Championships, she debuted in the 3000 m steeplechase to win at the Sparta Copenhagen Games. One month later at the 2022 Danish Athletics Championships steeplechase, Hvid and Mathilde Diekema Jensen broke away from Laura Astrup early on, extending their lead gradually until the final lap, where Hvid out-sprinted Jensen to win her first national title by one second, in her second-ever steeplechase race. Later that fall, Hvid finished 2nd at the Danish Cross Countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mogens Guldberg
Mogens Daniel Guldberg (born 2 August 1963 in Kalundborg) is a former middle distance runner from Denmark, who represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. There he was eliminated in the semifinals of the 1500 metres. He represented Sparta. He finished twelfth at the 1990 European Championships. Over 3000 metres at the IAAF World Indoor Championships he finished eighth in 1987, fourth in 1991 and fifth in 1993. He is a one-time national champion (1995) in the men's 5,000 metres. International competitions {, , - !colspan=6, Representing , - , 1986 , European Championships , Stuttgart, Germany , 22nd (h) , 1500 m , 3:42.84 , - , rowspan=2, 1987 , World Indoor Championships , Indianapolis, United States , 8th , 3000 m , 8:10.25 , - , World Championships , Rome, Italy , 24th (sf) , 1500 m , 3:50.79 , - , 1988 , Olympic Games , Seoul, South Korea , 16th (sf) , 1500 m , 3:39.86 , - , 1990 , European Championships , Split, Yugoslavia , 12th , 15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athens
Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southernmost capital on the European mainland. With its urban area's population numbering over 3.6 million, it is the List of urban areas in the European Union, eighth-largest urban area in the European Union (EU). The Municipality of Athens (also City of Athens), which constitutes a small administrative unit of the entire urban area, had a population of 643,452 (2021) within its official limits, and a land area of . Athens is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years, and its earliest human presence beginning somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennia BCE. According to Greek mythology the city was named after Athena, the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
