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Viggo Jensen

1874 - 1930

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Alexander Viggo Jensen (born 22 June 1874 in Copenhagen, Denmark; died 2 November 1930 in Copenhagen, Denmark) was a Danish weightlifter, sport shooter, gymnast, and athlete. He was the first Danish and Nordic Olympic champion, at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. The first weightlifting event held was the two-handed lift, in a style now known as the clean and jerk. Jensen and Launceston Elliot of Great Britain and Ireland finished the competition tied at 111.5 kilograms, though the judges declared Jensen had performed the lift with better form and would be awarded first place. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Viggo Jensen is the 139th most popular athlete (up from 173rd in 2019), the 249th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 306th in 2019) and the most popular Danish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Viggo Jensen ranks 139 out of 6,025. Before him are Karl Staaf, Ferenc Mohácsi, Ralph Craig, Theagenes of Thasos, John Ljunggren, and Anatoliy Bondarchuk. After him are Cy Young, Karl Hein, Jan Železný, Fred Kelly, Hans Woellke, and William Hoyt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Viggo Jensen ranks 86. Before him are Max Dvořák, Johan Gunnar Andersson, Joseph Klausner, Huang Xing, Nikolai Korotkov, and Oskar Nedbal. After him are Princess Anna of Montenegro, Krste Misirkov, Romaine Brooks, Frédéric François-Marsal, Clemens von Pirquet, and Charles-Louis Philippe. Among people deceased in 1930, Viggo Jensen ranks 57. Before him are Richard Wilhelm, Riccardo Drigo, Eric Lemming, Isidor Gunsberg, Emil Krebs, and Oskar Nedbal. After him are Alois Jirásek, Paul Levi, Pierina Legnani, Joseph Achille Le Bel, Mabel Normand, and Adolf Wölfli.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Viggo Jensen ranks 249 out of 1,032. Before him are Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1798), Svein Knutsson (1016), Princess Wilhelmine Ernestine of Denmark (1650), Thomas Vinterberg (1969), Leonora Christina Ulfeldt (1621), and Helle Thorning-Schmidt (1966). After him are Princess Louise of Denmark (1875), Carl Lange (1834), Henning Jensen (1949), Princess Dagmar of Denmark (1890), Holger Nielsen (1866), and Grethe Ingmann (1938).

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Among ATHLETES In Denmark

Among athletes born in Denmark, Viggo Jensen ranks 1. After him are Karen Hoff (1921), Edgar Aabye (1865), Lis Hartel (1921), Karen Harup (1924), Eugen Schmidt (1862), Charles Winckler (1867), Ernst Schultz (1879), Hans Jacob Nielsen (1899), Lily Carlstedt (1926), Henry Petersen (1900), and Lars Jørgen Madsen (1871).

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