Arne Jensen (archer)

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]

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

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. "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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