Arne Jensen (archer)
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
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| Full name | Hans Arne Jensen | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 February 1998 Nuku'alofa, Tonga | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 95 kg (209 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Tonga | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Archery | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Recurve | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Benjamin Ipsen | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Updated on 24 February 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Hans Arne Jensen (born 25 February 1998) is a Tongan competitive archer.[1] Representing his nation Tonga at the 2015 World Championships and at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Jensen trained under the tutelage of his Danish father and head coach Hans Jensen.[2][3]
At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Jensen became the first Tongan archer to compete in an Olympic tournament after 12 years, shooting only in the men's individual recurve.[2][4] Jensen scored 604 points out of a possible 720 to take the sixty-first seed from a field of 64 archers in the qualifying round, before he faced his initial challenge against the eventual fourth-place finalist and world-ranked Dutch archer Sjef van den Berg, abruptly ending his Olympic debut in a dramatic 3–7 defeat.[5][6]
In March 2019, while training for the Pacific Games, he broke Tonga's national archery record twice within a month.[7]
In May 2024 he was elected president of World Archery Oceania.[8]
He won two gold medals at the 2025 Pacific Mini Games in Palau.[9]
