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{{Short description|Danish cyclist (born 1941)}}
{{about||the Danish Olympic rower|Mogens Jensen (rower)|the Danish politician|Mogens Jensen (politician)}}

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{{Infobox cyclist
| name           = Mogens Frey
| image          = Mogens Frey 1967.jpg
| caption        = Mogens Frey at the 1967 World Championships
| full_name      = Mogens Frey Jensen
| nickname       = 
| birth_date     = {{Birth date and age|1941|7|2|df=y}}
| birth_place    = [[Glostrup]], Denmark
| height         = 
| weight         = 
| currentteam    = 
| discipline     = Track, road
| role           = Rider
| ridertype      = 
| amateuryears1  = 
| amateurteam1   = 
| proyears1      = 
| proteam1       = 
| majorwins      = Gold medal 1968 Olympic Games
| medaltemplates = 
{{MedalCountry| {{DEN}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalGold| [[1968 Summer Olympics|1968 Mexico City]] | [[Cycling at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's team pursuit|Team pursuit]]}}
{{MedalSilver|1968 Mexico City |[[Cycling at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's individual pursuit|4000 m individual pursuit]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[UCI Track Cycling World Championships|World Track Championships]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1967 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|1967 Amsterdam]]|Individual track pursuit}}
{{MedalGold|[[1968 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|1968 Montevideo]]|Individual track pursuit}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[UCI Road World Championships|World Road Championships]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1969 UCI Road World Championships|1969 Brno]]|Team pursuit, road}}
}}

'''Mogens Frey Jensen''' (born 2 July 1941) is a retired Danish amateur cyclist who competed successfully both on the road and on track. He won, along with [[Gunnar Asmussen]], [[Per Lyngemark]] and [[Reno Olsen]], a gold medal at the [[Cycling at the 1968 Summer Olympics|1968 Summer Olympics]] in the [[Cycling at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's team pursuit|4&nbsp;km team pursuit]] and finished second [[Cycling at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's individual pursuit|individually]].<ref name=r1/> However, he is more famous for the way he won stage 9 in the [[1970 Tour de France]].  Here, he defeated his own team captain [[Joaquim Agostinho]]. Agostinho was first over the finish line, but was immediately disqualified for putting his hand on Frey's handlebars, thus holding him back in the sprint.<ref name=b1/> It was the only [[List of Danish Tour de France stage winners|Danish Tour de France stage win]] until 1983.

Frey also won the [[individual pursuit]] event at the 1968 world championships and finished second in 1967 behind [[Gert Bongers]].<ref name=r2/>

==Major results==
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;1968
:[[Cycling at the 1968 Summer Olympics|1968 Summer Olympics]]:
::{{gold1}} Team Track Pursuit (with [[Per Lyngemark]], [[Reno Olsen]] and [[Gunnar Asmussen]])
::{{silver2}} Track Pursuit
: World Amateur Track Pursuit Champion
;1969
:GP ZTS Dubnica nad Vahom
: World Amateur Track Pursuit Champion
;1970
:[[1970 Tour de France|Tour de France]]:
::Winner stage 9
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==References==
{{reflist|refs= 
<ref name=r1>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418010717/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/je/mogens-frey-jensen-1.html Mogens Frey Jensen]. sports-reference.com</ref>
<ref name=r2>[http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=5355 Mogens Frey]. cyclingarchives.com</ref>
<ref name=b1>{{cite book|author1=Bill McGann|author2=Carol McGann|title=The Story of the Tour De France: 1965-2007|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V8mlwItBhhcC&pg=PA50|date=2008|publisher=Dog Ear Publishing|isbn=978-1-59858-608-4|page=50}}</ref>
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== External links ==
{{Commons category|Mogens Frey}}
*[http://histo.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/coureur/4039.html Official Tour de France results for Mogens Frey]
*[http://www.jeandegribaldy.com/index.php?zone=pages/equ_70b Jean de Gribaldy and 1970 Frimatic team]
{{Footer Olympic Champions Track Team Pursuit Men}}

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[[Category:1941 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Danish male cyclists]]
[[Category:Danish Tour de France stage winners]]
[[Category:Olympic cyclists for Denmark]]
[[Category:Cyclists at the 1968 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Olympic gold medalists for Denmark]]
[[Category:Olympic silver medalists for Denmark]]
[[Category:UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men)]]
[[Category:Olympic medalists in cycling]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Glostrup Municipality]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:21st-century Danish politicians]]
[[Category:Danish track cyclists]]
[[Category:20th-century Danish sportsmen]]


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