1980 in Denmark

Events from the year 1980 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Margrethe II
• Prime minister – Anker Jørgensen

Events

Sports

• July 19 – July 3 — Denmark at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow: 2 gold medals, 1 silver medal and 2 bronze medals.

Badminton

• 23 March Lene Køppen wins gold in women's single at the 1980 All England Open Badminton Championships.
• 27 May 1 June Denmark wins four bronze medals at the 1980 IBF World Championships.
• 17–20 April — With two gold medals, two silver medals and three bronze medals, Denmark finishes as the best nation at the 7th European Badminton Championships in Groningen, Netherlands.
• Hvidovre BK wins silver at Europe Cup.

Cycling

• Albert Fritz (FRG) and Patrick Sercu (BEL) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.

Births

January–February

• 1 January – Karina Jacobsgaard, tennis player
• 16 January – Lars Bak, bicycle racer
• 29 January – Peter Løvenkrands, footballer
• 1 February – Ellen Trane Nørby, politician
• 17 February – Eva Dyrberg, former tennis player
• 28 February – Christian Poulsen, football player

March–June

• 21 March Marit Bjørgen, cross-country skier
• 28 March Rasmus Seebach, singer
• 31 March Martin Albrechtsen, footballer
• 5 April Rasmus Quist Hansen, rower
• 12 April Peter Plaugborg, actor
• 5 May Martin Retov, football coach and former player
• 30 June Morten Skoubo, footballer

July–September

• 11 July – Mathias Boe, badminton player
• 11 August – Jerry Lucena, Danish-Filipino footballer
• 17 August – Christian Keller, footballer
• 7 September – Rikke Skov, handball player
• 30 September – Jakob Michelsen, football manager

October–December

• 8 October – Kasper Bøgelund, footballer
• 23 October Jesper Nøddesbo, handballer
• 25 October – Ditte Jensen, freestyle swimmer
• 28 October – Agnes Obel, musician
• 2 November – Thomas Bredahl, guitarist
• 13 November – Morten Messerschmidt, politician
• 23 December Matilde Kimer, journalist

Deaths

• 18 April – Poul Kjærholm, furniture designer (born 1929)
• 3 September – Dirch Passer, actor (born 1926)
• 6 September Gustav Weinreich, woodcarver and furniture maker (born 1886)
• 13 December Svend Olsen, weightlifter (born 1908)

See also

• 1980 in Danish television

References