Emma Jørgensen | |
Full Name: | Emma Aastrand Jørgensen |
Nationality: | Danish |
Country: | Denmark |
Sport: | Sprint kayak |
Coach: | Zoltán Bakó |
Club: | Maribo Kajakklub[1] |
Birth Date: | 1996 1, df=yes[2] |
Birth Place: | Bagsværd, Denmark |
Height: | 1.68 m |
Weight: | 70 kg[3] |
Show-Medals: | no |
Emma Aastrand Jørgensen (born 30 January 1996) is a Danish sprint canoeist. She and her team-mate Henriette Engel Hansen won the women's K-2 1000 m title at the 2014 World Championships.[4]
She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics, winning the silver medal in K-1 500 metres. She was defeated by the defending champion Danuta Kozák. She won a bronze medal at the 2016 European Championships in the same category.[1] Jørgensen competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, winning a bronze medal in the K-1 200 metres event, finishing behind Lisa Carrington and Teresa Portela[5] and also in the K-1 500 metres event, finishing behind Lisa Carrington and Tamara Csipes.[5] At her third Olympic Games in Paris, she won her second bronze medal in the K-1 500 metres event, finishing behind Lisa Carrington and Tamara Csipes, just as she had three years earlier in Tokyo.