Arne Jensen (archer)

Arne Jensen
Personal information
Full nameHans Arne Jensen
Born (1998-02-25) 25 February 1998 (age 26)
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Height1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight95 kg (209 lb)
Sport
Country Tonga
SportArchery
EventRecurve
Coached byBenjamin Ipsen
Updated on 24 February 2017

Hans Arne Jensen (born 25 February 1998) is a Tongan competitive archer.[1] Representing his nation Tonga at the 2015 World Championships and at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Jensen trained under the tutelage of his Danish father and head coach Hans Jensen.[2][3]

At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Jensen became the first Tongan archer to compete in an Olympic tournament after 12 years, shooting only in the men's individual recurve.[2][4] Jensen scored 604 points out of a possible 720 to take the sixty-first seed from a field of 64 archers in the qualifying round, before he faced his initial challenge against the eventual fourth-place finalist and world-ranked Dutch archer Sjef van den Berg, abruptly ending his Olympic debut in a dramatic 3–7 defeat.[5][6]

References

  1. ^ "Arne Jensen". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Tongan archer, Arne Jensen's first Olympics at Rio". Matangi Tonga. 6 August 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  3. ^ Petersen, Jacob Qvirin (5 August 2016). "I dag skal du holde med 18-årige Arne fra Tonga" (in Danish). TV 2. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  4. ^ "Seven Tongan athletes bound for Rio Olympics". Pacnews. 21 July 2016. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
  5. ^ "Archery: Men's Individual Round of 64". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  6. ^ "Jensen shoots well against top-ranked archer". Matangi Tonga. 9 August 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2017.


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