Stefan Henze
- Birth Date:
- 03.05.1981
- Death date:
- 15.08.2016
- Length of life:
- 35
- Days since birth:
- 15697
- Years since birth:
- 42
- Days since death:
- 2808
- Years since death:
- 7
- Extra names:
- Stefan Henze
- Categories:
- Coach, Sportsman, Victim of Catastrophe
- Nationality:
- german
- Cemetery:
- Set cemetery
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.
Henze also 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.
On 12 August 2016, Henze suffered serious head injuries after a car crash in Rio de Janeiro, while being there as a coach during the 2016 Summer Olympic Games and died three days later.
Source: wikipedia.org
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