Annemarie Werner-Hansen (21 July 1939 – 11 October 1993) was a Danish

canoe sprint Canoe sprint is a water sport in which athletes race in specially designed sprint canoes or sprint kayaks on calm water over a short distance. Prior to November 2008, canoe sprint was known as flatwater racing. The term is still in use today ...

er who competed in the early to mid-1960s. Competing two

Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens, then part of the King ...

, she earned her best finish of fourth in the K-1 500 m event at

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1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Janu ...

.Annamarie Werner-Hansen
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1939 births 1993 deaths Canoeists at the 1960 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 1964 Summer Olympics Danish female canoeists Olympic canoeists for Denmark {{Denmark-canoe-bio-stub