Stefan Henze

German canoeist

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Stefan Henze

Personal information

Nationality

German

Born

(1981-05-03)3 May 1981
Halle, East Germany

Died

15 August 2016(2016-08-15) (aged 35)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Height

1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)

Weight

75 kg (165 lb)

Sport

Country

Germany

Sport

Canoe slalom

Event

Medal record

Men's canoe slalom

Representing Germany
Olympic Games
	2004 Athens	C2
World Championships
	2003 Augsburg	C2
	2003 Augsburg	C2 team
	2006 Prague	C2
	2006 Prague	C2 team
	2009 La Seu d'Urgell	C2 team
	2005 Penrith	C2
European Championships
	2008 Kraków	C2 team
	2005 Tacen	C2 team
	2011 La Seu d'Urgell	C2 team
Junior World Championships
	1998 Lofer	C2
Junior European Championships
	1999 Solkan	C2

Stefan Henze (3 May 1981 – 15 August 2016) was a German slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1996 to 2011.

Career

Henze won a silver medal in the C2 event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.^[1]

He also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with a gold (C2: 2003), four silvers (C2: 2006, C2 team: 2003, 2006, 2009), and a bronze (C2: 2005). He won a gold and two silvers in the C2 team event at the European Championships.^[2]

His partner in the C2 boat throughout his career was Marcus Becker.

His father Jürgen Henze is world champion in the C2 team event from 1975 and his older brother Frank Henze is also a canoe slalom racer and multiple world championship medalist.^[1]

World Cup individual podiums


				Total
C2	3	3	4	10

Season	Date	Venue	Position	Event
2001	28 Jul 2001	Augsburg	3rd	C2
2003	3 Aug 2003	Bratislava	2nd	C2
2004	30 May 2004	Merano	2nd	C2
2005	16 Jul 2005	Augsburg	1st	C2
2005	2 Oct 2005	Penrith	3rd	C2¹
2006	3 Jun 2006	Augsburg	1st	C2
2006	5 Aug 2006	Prague	2nd	C2¹
2009	5 Jul 2009	Bratislava	3rd	C2
2009	11 Jul 2009	Augsburg	1st	C2
2010	27 Jun 2010	La Seu d'Urgell	3rd	C2

¹ World Championship counting for World Cup points

Death

On 12 August 2016, Henze suffered serious head injuries after a car crash in Rio de Janeiro, where he coached during the 2016 Summer Olympics, and died three days later.^[3]^[4] Henze donated his organs. After he died, his heart, his liver and both of his kidneys were transplanted into seriously ill people in a hospital in Rio de Janeiro.^[5]^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b "Stefan Henze". Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
^ "Stefan HENZE (GER)". CanoeSlalom.net. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
^ "Olympia 2016: Kanu-Trainer Henze lebensgefährlich verletzt". Der Spiegel. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
^ "Olympia 2016: Der deutsche Sport trauert um Stefan Henze". DOSB online, Frankfurt am Main. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
^ "Verstorbener Kanutrainer: Schwerkranke erhalten vier Organe Stefan Henzes". Der Spiegel. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
^ Olivia Blair (18 August 2016). "German canoe slalom coach Stefan Henze who died in Rio saves four lives through organ transplants". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-24.

12 September 2009 final results for the men's C2 team slalom event for the 2009 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships.- accessed 12 September 2009. Archived 15 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine
DatabaseOlympics.com profile
"ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2009-11-09. Retrieved 2019-04-24.
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