1928 Summer Olympics / Participant (Denmark)

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Denmark participated in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam , the Netherlands , with a delegation of 79 athletes (70 men and nine women).

Medalist

gold

Name (s)	sport	competition
Willy Falck Hansen	Cycling	1,000 meter individual time trial
Henry Hansen	Cycling	Individual time trial
Henry Hansen, Orla Jørgensen , Leo Nielsen	Cycling	Team time trial

silver

Surname	sport	competition
Aage Høy-Petersen , Sven Linck , Niels Møller , Peter Schlütter , Vilhelm Vett	sailing	6 meter class

bronze

Surname	sport	competition
Michael Michaelsen	Boxing	Heavyweight
Willy Falck Hansen	Cycling	sprint

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Aage Fahrenholtz

  Bantamweight: 9th place

• Ricardt Madsen

  Featherweight: 9th place

• Hans Nielsen

  Lightweight: 4th place

• Arne Sande

  Welterweight: 17th place

• Ingvard Ludvigsen

  Middleweight: 9th place

• Michael Michaelsen

  Heavyweight: bronze

fencing

• Ivan Osiier

  Foil, singles: semi-finals

  Foil, team: quarter-finals

  Epee, singles: semi-finals

  Epee, team: preliminary round

  Saber, singles: semi-finals

• Kim Bærentzen

  Foil, singles: preliminary round

  Foil, team: quarter-finals

• Jens Berthelsen

  Foil, singles: preliminary round

  Foil, team: quarter-finals

  Epee, singles: semi-finals

  Epee, team: preliminary round

  Saber, singles: semi-finals

• Johan Praem

  Foil, team: quarter-finals

  Epee, team: preliminary round

• Peter Ryefelt

  Epee, singles: quarter-finals

  Epee, team: preliminary round

• Otto Bærentzen

  Epee, team: preliminary round

• Viggo Stilling-Andersen

  Saber, singles: preliminary round

• Margot Bærentzen

  Women, foil, singles: preliminary round

• Inger Klint

  Women, foil, singles: preliminary round

• Else Ahlmann-Ohlsen

  Women, foil, singles: preliminary round

Weightlifting

• Henry Nissen

  Lightweight: 16th place

hockey

• Men's team

  5th place

• Squad

  Hagbarth Dahlman

  Aage Heimann

  Arne Blach

  Børge Monberg

  Carl Malling

  Erik Husted

  Henning Holst

  Otto Busch

  Niels Heilbuth

  Otto Husted

  Peter Koefoed

  Henry Madsen

  Peter Prahm

athletics

• Leo Jørgensen

  100 meter heats

• Louis Lundgren

  400 meters: heats

  110 meter hurdles: prelims

  400 meter hurdles: prelims

• Albert Larsen

  800 meters: heats

  1,500 meters: heats

• Carl Axel Holger Petersen

  5,000 meters: heats

• Gottlieb Bach

  Marathon: 51st place

• Aksel Madsen

  Marathon: DNF

• Orla Olsen

  Marathon: DNF

• Herman Larsen

  400 meter hurdles: prelims

• Aksel Nikolajsen

  Pole vault: 10th place in qualification

• Hermann Brügmann

  Long jump: 30th place in qualification

  Triple jump: 18th place in qualification

Modern pentathlon

• Helge Jensen

  Singles: 10th place

• Otto Olsen

  Individual: 14th place

Cycling

• Henry Hansen

  Road race, individual: gold

  Road race, team: gold

• Leo Nielsen

  Road race, individual: 7th place

  Road race, team: gold

• Orla Jørgensen

  Road race, individual: 25th place

  Road race, team: gold

• Poul Sørensen

  Road race, individual: 28th place

  Road race, team: gold

• Willy Falck Hansen

  Sprint: bronze

  1,000 meter individual time trial: gold

horse riding

• Magnus Fog

  Dressage, individual: 16th place

• Peder Jensen

  Versatility, singles: 9th place

• Cai Gundelach

  Versatility, Individual: DNF

Wrestling

• Herman Andersen

  Bantamweight, Greco-Roman: 7th place

• Aage Meyer

  Featherweight, Greco-Roman: 6th place

• Einar Borges

  Lightweight, Greco-Roman: 9th place

• Johannes Jacobsen

  Middleweight, Greco-Roman: 4th place

  Welterweight, freestyle: 10th place

• Ejnar Hansen

  Light heavyweight, Greco-Roman: 5th place

• Emil Larsen

  Heavyweight, Greco-Roman: 11th place

• Carlo Tesdorf Jørgensen

  Lightweight, freestyle: 5th place

rowing

• Arnold Schwartz

  One: 3rd round

• Svend Aage Grønvold

  Eighth: 3rd round

• Georg Sjøht

  Eighth: 3rd round

• Bernhardt Møller Sørensen

  Eighth: 3rd round

• Sigfred Sørensen

  Eighth: 3rd round

• Ernst Friborg Jensen

  Eighth: 3rd round

• Carl Schmidt

  Eighth: 3rd round

• Willy Sørensen

  Eighth: 3rd round

• Knud Olsen

  Eighth: 3rd round

• Harry Gregersen

  Eighth: 3rd round

swim

• Agnete Olsen

  Women, 100 meters: semi-finals

  Women, 4 × 100 meter freestyle: prelims

• Gerda Bredgaard

  Women, 100 meters: heats

  Women, 4 × 100 meter freestyle: prelims

• Lilian Staugaard

  Women, 4 × 100 meter freestyle: prelims

• Rigmor Olsen

  Women, 4 × 100 meter freestyle: prelims

• Else Jacobsen

  Women, 100 meters back: heats

  Women, 200 meters back: 4th place

sailing

• Jacob Andersen

  12-foot dinghy: 7th place

• Aage Høy-Petersen

  6 meter class: silver

• Niels Møller

  6 meter class: silver

• Peter Schluetter

  6 meter class: silver

• Vilhelm Vett

  6 meter class: silver

• Sven Linck

  6 meter class: silver

Diving

• Edith Nielsen

  Women, jumping: preliminary round

Web links

• Danish Olympic team from 1928 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )