Stefan Henze

Stefan Henze
Personal information
Nationality German
Born (1981-05-03)3 May 1981
Halle, East Germany
Died 15 August 2016(2016-08-15) (aged 35)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sport
Country  Germany
Sport Canoeing
Event(s) Canoe slalom
Stefan Henze
Medal record
Men's canoe slalom
Representing  Germany
Olympic Games
2004 Athens C-2
World Championships
2003 Augsburg C-2
2003 Augsburg C-2 team
2006 Prague C-2
2006 Prague C-2 team
2009 La Seu d'Urgell C-2 team
2005 Penrith C-2
European Championships
2008 Kraków C-2 team
2005 Tacen C-2 team
2011 La Seu d'Urgell C-2 team

Stefan Henze (3 May 1981 – 15 August 2016) was a German slalom canoeist who began competing in the sport in the mid-1990s. He won the silver medal in the C-2 event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens together with Marcus Becker.

Career

Henze won six medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with a gold (C-2: 2003), four silvers (C-2: 2006, C-2 team: 2003, 2006, 2009), and a bronze (C-2: 2005). He won a gold and two silvers in the C-2 team event at the European Championships.

His father Jürgen Henze is world champion in the C-2 team event from 1975 and his older half-brother Frank Henze is also a canoe slalom racer and multiple world championship medalist.

Death

On 12 August 2016, Henze suffered serious head injuries after a car crash in Rio de Janeiro, where he was a coach during the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, and died three days later.[1][2] Henze donated his organs. After he died, his heart, his liver and both of his kidneys were transplanted into seriously ill people in a hospital in Rio de Janeiro.[3][4]

References

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