- Jens Eriksen
Infobox Badminton player
playername = Jens Eriksen
caption =
birth_name =
date_of_birth = birth date and age|1969|12|30
place_of_birth =Copenhagen ,Denmark
height = height|m=1.91
weight = convert|82|kg|lb st|abbr=on|lk=on
event = Men's & Mixed Doubles
highest_ranking = 1 (men's doubles)
1 (mixed doubles)
date_of_highest_ranking =
current_ranking =
date_of_current_ranking =
country = DEN
coach = Steen Pedersen
handedness =
bwf_id = 1837Jens Eriksen (born
December 30 ,1969 ) is a malebadminton player fromDenmark .Career
2004 Olympics
He played
badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's doubles and mixed doubles.In men's doubles, Eriksen and his partern
Martin Lundgaard Hansen had a bye in the first round and defeatedHoward Bach andKevin Qi Han of theUnited States in the second. In the quarterfinals, Eriksen and Hansen beatFu Haifeng andCai Yun of China 3-15, 15-11, 15-8. They lost the semifinal toLee Dong-soo andYoo Yong-sung of Korea 9-15, 15-5, 15-3 and the bronze medal match againstEng Hian andFlandy Limpele ofIndonesia 15-13, 15-7 to finish fourth place.He also competed in mixed double's with partner
Mette Schjoldager . They defeatedSvetoslav Stoyanov andVictoria Wright ofFrance in the first round andKim Yong-hyun andLee Hyo-jung of Korea in the second. In the quarterfinals, Eriksen and Schjoldager beatNova Widianto andVita Marissa ofIndonesia 15-12, 15-8 to advance to the semifinals. There, they lost to Zhang Jun andGao Ling of China 15-9, 15-5. In the bronze medal match, they defeated fellow Danish pairJonas Rasmussen andRikke Olsen 15-5, 15-5 to win thebronze medal .He missed the chance to be the first Danish sportsman in 20 years (since
Henning Lynge Jakobsen at the1984 Summer Olympics ) to win two medals in the sameOlympic Games .External links
* [http://www.internationalbadminton.org/playerinfo.asp?playerid=1837 BWF Player Profile]
* [http://www.badminton.dk/Elite%20uk/Profiler%20uk/Nuvaerende%20stjerner/Jens%20Eriksen.aspx Jens Eriksen's Profile - Badminton.dk]
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