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It is catalogued under topics including 1874 births, 1930 deaths and 19th-century Danish sportspeople.
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Viggo
- Family name
- Jensen
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Danish Realm
- Place of birth
- Copenhagen
- Place of death
- Copenhagen
- Occupation
- artistic gymnast
- Languages spoken
- Danish
- Sport
- shooting sports
- Country for sport
- Denmark
- Image
- ViggoJensen.png
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- date of birth
- 1874-06-22
- date of death
- 1930-11-02
- sports discipline competed in
- discus throw
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Encyclopedic overview
Alexander Viggo Jensen (22 June 1874 – 2 November 1930) 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. The British delegation protested, resulting in more attempts being given both lifters to improve their scores. Neither did and therefore Jensen retained first place, but he had injured his shoulder in the extra attempts.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Viggo Jensen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.