Henrik Djernis - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Henrik Djernis (born April 22, 1968 on the island of Sjælland [English: Zealand] in the village Svebølle near Kalundborg

Kalundborg

Kalundborg is a city with a population of 16,434 in Kalundborg municipality in Denmark and the site of its municipal council. Kalundborg is on the main island Zealand, with Copenhagen, but opposite on the far western edge....

) is a Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

cyclist.

He is very accomplished in both cyclo-cross

Cyclo-cross

Cyclo-cross is a form of bicycle racing. Races typically take place in the autumn and winter , and consists of many laps of a short course featuring pavement, wooded trails, grass, steep hills and...

and mountain bike

Mountain bike

A mountain bike or mountain bicycle is a bicycle created for off-road cycling. This activity includes traversing of rocks and washouts, and steep declines,...

racing and has experience in road racing too. Throughout his 20 plus years of racing, he has won numerous races and world and national championships titles.

He was the first man to win the World Mountain Bike Championship three times, 1992 in Canada

Canada

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, 1993 in France

France

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and 1994 in the United States

United States

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. Djernis won the Danish Cyclocross National Championship ten times in a row from 1989 to 1998 and then won the title twice more in 2000 and 2001.

He has been nominated for induction into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame

Mountain Bike Hall of Fame

The Mountain Bike Hall of Fame and Museum is located in Crested Butte Colorado. The Mountain Bike Hall of Fame and Museum was founded in 1988 to chronicle the history of mountain biking....

by Tom Ritchey

Tom Ritchey

Tom Ritchey is an American bicycle frame builder, designer, welder and founder of Ritchey Design. He is an accomplished road and mountain bicycle racer.-Early years:...

Palmares

1983

Danish Junior Cyclocross Champion

1984

Danish Junior Cyclocross Champion

1985