Knud Enemark Jensen
Personal information | |
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Full name | Knud Enemark Jensen |
Nationality | Danish |
Born | Midtjylland, Denmark | 30 November 1936
Died | 26 August 1960 Rome, Italy | (aged 23)
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) |
Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Cycling |
Knud Enemark Jensen (30 November 1936 – 26 August 1960) was a Danish cyclist who died while participating in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. During his career, he was involved in an early doping scandal.[1]
Biography
Jensen was born in Aarhus. In 1960 he was the winner of the individual Nordic Championship, as well as a member of the Danish team that won the silver medal in the team time trial at that event.[1][2]
The Olympic
Jensen was brought by ambulance to a military tent near the finish line, with temperatures inside the tent reaching approximately 50 degrees Celsius/122 degrees Fahrenheit,[5] where he died that afternoon without regaining consciousness. Prince Axel of Denmark, an International Olympic Committee member, was on his way to Jensen's bedside when Jensen died.[6]
Oluf Jorgensen, the Danish cycling team's trainer, told Danish government investigators that he had given Jensen and some other cyclists
Jensen's death led the International Olympic Committee to form a medical committee in 1961 and institute drug testing at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France, and at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico.[1][10]
Jensen was married to the niece of former Olympic cycling champion Henry Hansen.[1] His family received one million lire ($1600) from an Olympic insurance policy in compensation for his death.[11]
See also
- List of racing cyclists and pacemakers with a cycling-related death
- List of doping cases in cycling
- List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences
- Denmark at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Olympic and Paralympic deaths
References
- ^ a b c d e "Knud Enemark Jensen Biography and Olympic Results". Sports Reference LLC. 2012. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
- ISBN 978-1-4165-3407-5.
- doi:10.1080/17460260500396319. Archived from the original(PDF) on 31 March 2012. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
- ^ Maraniss, pp. 110-113.
- ^ Møller, page 461
- wire servicesto be in a hospital.
- ^ Maraniss, p. 138.
- The Associated Press (26 March 1961). "Danish Cyclist Died Of Heat, Not Drug". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
- ^ a b Maraniss, p. 141.
- ^ Maraniss, p. 142.
- ^ The Organizing Committee of the Games of the XVII Olympiad (1960). The Games of the XVII Olympiad Rome 1960: The Official Report of the Organizing Committee (PDF). Vol. 1. p. 447. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 October 2008. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
External links
- Olympics timeline
- Knud Enemark Jensen at Cycling Archives
- Knud Enemark Jensen at Olympedia