1986 in Denmark

Events from the year 1986 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Margrethe II
• Prime minister – Poul Schlüter

Sport

• 30 March – 5 April – With three gold medals, three silver medals and three bronze medals, Denmark finishes as the best nation at the 10th European Badminton Championships in Uppsala, Sweden.

Badminton

• Gentofte BK wins the Europe Cup.
• 16 March Morten Frost wins gold in men's singles at the 1986 All England Open Badminton Championships.

Cycling

• April – Kim Andersen wins Paris–Camembert.
• August – Jørgen Marcussen wins Trofeo Matteotti.
• Danny Clark (AUS) and Tony Doyle (GBR) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.
• Denmark wins one gold medal, one silver medal and one bronze medal at the 1986 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.

Equestrian sports

• Date unknown Anne Grethe Jensen wins a gold medal at the World Dressage Championships in Cavan Monaghan, Canada.

Births

January–March

• 16 January – Hans-Kristian Vittinghus, badminton player
• 9 February – Stina Lykke Borg, footballer
• 25 February Sisse Marie Welling, Lord Mayor of Copenhagen
• 4 March Amanda Collin, actress
• 12 March Kasper Irming Andersen, handball player
• 15 March Jannik Hansen, ice hockey player

April–July

• 14 April Michael Færk Christensen, cyclist
• 16 April Peter Regin, ice hockey player
• 18 April Denice Klarskov, pornographic film actress
• 20 April Jonas Aaen Jørgensen, racing cyclist

• 3 May – Mads Christiansen, handballer
• 6 May Marie Bjerre, politician
• 12 May – Christinna Pedersen, badminton player
• 27 May – Lasse Schöne, footballer
• 11 June – Leon Jessen, footballer
• 20 July Theresa Eslund, footballer

September–December

• 18 September Tobias Mikkelsen, footballer
• 27 September Olga Ravn, author
• 27 September Natasha Thomas, singer and songwriter
• 15 October Janni Arnth, footballer
• 5 November Kasper Schmeichel, footballer
• 2 December – Ken Ilsø, footballer
• 18 December Henrik Toft Hansen, handball player

Deaths

• 1 April (in Canada) – Erik Bruhn, ballet dancer, choreographer, company director, actor (born 1928)
• 19 April Gudrun Stig Aagaard, textile artist (born 1895)
• 27 July Anna Sofie Boesen Dreijer, textile artist (born 1899)
• 29 September – Prince Georg of Denmark (born 1920)
• 13 October Peter Hvidt, architect and furniture designer (died 1916)

See also

• 1986 in Danish television

References