Jens Als Andersen
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| Born | 22 August 1958 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Sailing | |||||||||||||||||||
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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[]
- ^ "Jens Als Andersen". Sailing Sclerosis.
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Categories:
- Living people
- 1958 births
- Danish disabled sportspeople
- Danish male sailors (sport)
- World champions in sailing for the Netherlands
- Disabled sailing world champions
- Paralympic sailors of the Netherlands
- 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