Joachim B. Olsen
| Medal record | ||
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| Men's Athletics | ||
Representing  Denmark
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| Olympic Games | ||
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2004 Athens | Shot put |
| World Indoor Championships | ||
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2004 Budapest | Shot put |
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2006 Moscow | Shot put |
| European Championships | ||
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2002 Munich | Shot put |
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2006 Gothenburg | Shot put |
| European Indoor Championships | ||
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2005 Madrid | Shot put |
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2002 Vienna | Shot put |
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2007 Birmingham | Shot put |
Joachim Brøchner Olsen (born 31 May 1977 in Aalborg, Denmark) is a Danish politician and former world class shot putter. He was elected to the Danish parliament at the 2011 election, representing the Liberal Alliance in the Greater Copenhagen constituency.
As an athlete, he represented Århus 1900.
With ten straight international finals, Joachim holds the longest string of appearances in finals at Olympic, World and European Championships among throwers.
From October 2003, Olsen was coached by former olympic finalist Vesteinn Hafsteinsson. From February 2007 until Joachim B. Olsen ended his career in July 2009, Olsen was coached by Simon Patrick Stewart.
In his teens Joachim primarily focused on the discus throw, but after switching shot put technique from the glide style to rotational style, he improved dramatically during his four years at University of Idaho, where he was coached by Tim Taylor.
Although he appeared at the World Junior Championships in Sydney 1996, where he threw the Discus, it was at the U23 European Championships in Gothenburg in 1999 he made his first international impact, winning a silver medal. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Joachim B. Olsen did not qualify for the final. Nevertheless, he received worldwide attention after he wrote in a chat room that the winner of the final, Arsi Harju had failed a doping test. The rumour was false, and the incident caused the Danish National Olympic Committee to send Joachim B. Olsen home prior to the closing of the Games.
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