Henry Petersen

{{short description|Danish pole vaulter}} {{about||the American lawyer|Henry E. Petersen|similar names|Henry Peterson (disambiguation){{!}}Henry Peterson}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = | image = Henry Petersen 1920.jpg | image_size = | caption = Petersen at the 1920 Olympics | birth_date = 1 October 1900 | birth_place = Ring, Horsens, Denmark | death_date = 24 September 1949 (aged 48) | death_place = Copenhagen, Denmark | sport = Athletics | event = Pole vault | pb = 4.038 (1925)<ref name=sr/><ref name=tf/> | club = KIF Copenhagen | retired = | olympics = | highestranking = | show-medals = yes | medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry|{{DEN}}}} {{Medal|Competition | Olympic Games}} {{Medal|Silver| 1920 Antwerp | Pole vault}} {{Medal|Competition|World Student Games}} {{Medal|Gold | 1923 Paris |Pole vault}} }}

'''Henry Petersen''' (1 October 1900 – 24 September 1949) was a Danish athlete, who competed in the pole vault at the 1920 and 1924 Olympics and won a silver medal in 1920, placing fourth in 1924.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/66980 |title=Henry Petersen |work=Olympedia |access-date=19 July 2021}}</ref>

== Career == Petersen won the Danish national pole vault title in 1920–21, 1923 and 1925–27 and improved the national record eight times from 3.69 m in 1919 to 4.03 m in 1925. He also held three national titles in the {{nowrap|4 × 100 m}} sprint relay (1919–20 and 1922) and five in team gymnastics events (between 1921 and 1927).

Petersen finished second behind Georg Högström in the pole jump event at the British 1919 AAA Championships.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000681/19190707/133/0007 |title=AAA Championships |work=Daily Herald |date=7 July 1919 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=21 November 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000728/19190707/010/0010 |title=Amateur Champions |work=Daily Record |date=7 July 1919 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=21 November 2024 }}</ref> He finished second behind Henry Lindblad in the pole jump event at the 1927 AAA Championships.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003358/19270703/260/0017 |title=An Olympiad |work=Weekly Dispatch (London) |date=3 July 1927 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=4 January 2025 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000264/19270705/022/0004 |title=Records go abroad|work=Western Daily Press |date=5 July 1927 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=4 January 2025 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=4 January 2025 }}</ref>

He retired from sport shortly before the 1928 Olympics due to tuberculosis. He was an engineer by profession.<ref name=sr/>

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<ref name=sr>[https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pe/henry-petersen-1.html Henry Petersen] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303190808/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pe/henry-petersen-1.html |date=3 March 2016 }}. sports-reference.com</ref> <ref name=tf>[http://trackfield.brinkster.net/Profile.asp?ID=5213&Gender=M Henry Petersen]. trackfield.brinkster.net</ref>

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== External links == * {{Olympics.com|henry-petersen}}

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