Morten Jørgensen (born 23 June 1985) is a Danish

lightweight Lightweight is a weight class in combat sports and rowing. Boxing Professional boxing The lightweight division is over 130 pounds (59 kilograms) and up to 135 pounds (61.2 kilograms) weight class in the sport of boxing. Notable lightweight boxe ...

rower. He won a gold medal at the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

in Lightweight coxless fours together with

Thomas Ebert Thomas Ebert (born 23 July 1973 in Roskilde, Sjælland) is a Danish lightweight rower who won gold at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics in the Men's Lightweight Coxless Fours with the Gold Four. He lives near Roskilde Roskilde ( , ...

, Eskild Ebbesen, and Mads Andersen. Morten Jørgensen was a substitute for the crew, the

Gold Four The Gold Four (Danish: ''Guldfireren'') is the nickname for a Danish men's lightweight coxless four crew who between 1994 and 2016 has won three Olympic gold, one silver and two bronze, and eight gold and three silver medal ...

, going into the

. One and a half months before the event he substituted for

Bo Helleberg Bo Brask Helleberg (born 24 June 1974) is a Danish lightweight rower. He won a gold medal at the 1996 World Rowing Championships in Motherwell with the lightweight men's coxless pair. Helleberg was nominated for the 2008 Summer Olympics, but had ...

who was injured. The Danish team went on to win the gold medal. Four years later at the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

, Jørgensen was again part of the Danish lightweight men's four team, but this time they could only finish third, winning the bronze medal.

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1985 births Living people Danish male rowers Olympic rowers for Denmark Rowers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Denmark Olympic silver medalists for Denmark Olympic bronze medalists for Denmark Olympic medalists in rowing Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics World Rowing Championships medalists for Denmark European Rowing Championships medalists Place of birth missing (living people) {{Denmark-rowing-bio-stub