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1980 in Denmark

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Events from the year 1980 in Denmark.

Incumbents

Monarch – Margrethe II
Prime minister – Anker Jørgensen

Events

Main article: 1980

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

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)

References

"Margrethe II {{!}} queen of Denmark".

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