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| Nationality | German | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 May 1998 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Discus | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Discus: 69.94m (RAMONA, 2025) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Henrik Janssen (born 19 May 1998) is a German discus thrower. He was the German national champion in 2023. He competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships and the 2024 Olympic Games. [1]
He threw a 62.60 metres distance to qualify for the final at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich, Germany. [2] He finished tenth place overall with a 61.11 meters throw in the final. [3]
He finished second at the 2023 European Athletics Team Championships in Chorzow, Silesia in June 2023, throwing over 64 metres. [4] On 9 July 2023 he became German champion, throwing 63.93 metres in Kassel. [5]
He finished in eighth place at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary in August 2023, with a top throw of 63.80 metres, having qualified for the final with a throw of 63.79 metres. [6] [7]
Competing in Germany in May 2024, he threw a lifetime best of 67.43 metres to meet the 2024 Paris Olympics standard, and three days later won at a meet in Halle. [8] On 2 June 2024, he finished fourth at the 2024 Diamond League event in Stockholm, Sweden with 65.85 metres. [9]
He was selected for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy, where he a made a 65.09 metres throw in the first round and managed an improvement with a distance of 65.48 metres in the final round to place fifth overall. [10] [11] He competed in the discus throw at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France in August 2024, but recorded no mark in his throws and did not proceed to the final. [12]
He won the gold medal at the 2025 European Throwing Cup in Nicosia, Cyprus, with a best throw of 64.43 metres. [13] He finished fourth in the discus in May 2025 at the 2025 Doha Diamond League. [14] He finished fifth in Stockholm at the 2025 BAUHAUS-galan event, part of the 2025 Diamond League, in June 2025. [15] He placed sixth at the Diamond League Final in Zurich on 28 August. [16]
He was selected for the German team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. [17]
