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COMPLICATIONS: Svein Arne Hansen (73) has been President of the European Athletics Association for the past five years. The picture is from the European Athletics Championships in Berlin in autumn 2018. Photo: Bjørn S. Delebekk
The condition of Svein Arne Hansen (73), former president of the Norwegian Athletics Association and current president of the European Athletics Association, is stable after stroke and subsequent complications.
This is reported by Svein’s son Arne Hansen and the family’s spokesman, Philip Wilkens (42), to VG.
– I was anxious when complications arose in the hospital. But it seems stable now, and that’s evidence of progress, says Philip Wilkens.
Svein’s son Arne Hansen is a chiropractor, with practice at Kristiansand.
Hansen, who for 24 years was the head of the annual international athletics conference in Bislett, had returned to Norway two days before a trip abroad when, just over six weeks ago, on Sunday, March 15, he felt that, according to Philip Wilkens released him. on the left side of the body and had trouble articulating.
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Svein Arne Hansen reacted quickly and was immediately transported to the hospital. There it was discovered that he had suffered a stroke. He later incurred other complications, which are now under control.
The son says that doctors now characterize Svein Arne Hansen’s condition as stable, but also that there is a long way to go before he successfully recovers. When asked if he thinks he will stay long, Philip Wilkens replies that he must at least go through a long rehabilitation.
SILVER CELEBRATION: Svein Arne Hansen along with javelin thrower Andreas Thorkildsen after the 2011 Silver World Cup. Photo: Cornelius Poppe / SCANPIX
He says that his father, who enters the Deacon’s house, sleeps a lot and is awake in sequences. Then you can contact him. He could sit on the bed.
Svein Arne Hansen maintained a high level of activity, with many days of travel, in the position of President of the European Athletics Association, who elected him as its executive director in April five years ago. He was reelected for a new four-year term at the same time last year.
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The son admits he is “surprised” to see Svein Arne Hansen, who will turn 74 next week, as a patient, after getting used to seeing him at his peak.
– It’s sad. But now I’m optimistic. I think there is hope, he says.
Svein Arne Hansen was president of the Norwegian Athletics Association, so to speak, from the turn of the millennium until he obtained the leadership position at the European Athletics Association, which gives him a seat on the board of the International Athletics Association ( now World Athletics). The European Union has three vice-presidents. Bulgarian Dobromir Karamarinov will, after all, be president if Svein Arne Hansen cannot continue.
