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Name
  
Frank Henze

Role
  
Olympic athlete


Height
  
1.69 m

Weight
  
65 kg

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Frank Henze (born April 1, 1977 in Leipzig) is a German slalom canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s.

He won three medals in the C-2 team event at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with two silvers (2002, 2009) and a bronze (2010). He won six more medals at the European Championships in the same event (3 golds, 1 silver and 2 bronzes).

At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed in the C-2 event. He did not advance to the semifinals after finishing 11th in the qualifying round.

His partner at the beginning of his career was Kai Walter. Since 2005 he competed internationally with David Schröder.

His father Walter Hofmann won gold medal in the C-2 event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and his younger half-brother Stefan Henze is a silver medalist from the same event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

References

Frank Henze Wikipedia