1932 Summer Olympics / Participant (Denmark)

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Denmark took part in the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles with a delegation of 43 athletes (35 men and 8 women) in 34 competitions in nine sports.

The Danish athletes won three silver and three bronze medals. In the art competitions, the Danish artists secured two more silver medals, but these were not included in the official medal table, in which Denmark took 20th place. The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was the fencer Axel Bloch .

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Carl Jensen

  Welterweight: 5th place

• Peter Jørgensen

  Light Heavyweight: Bronze

fencing

Men

• Ivan Osiier

  Foil: eliminated in the 2nd round

  Saber: 7th place

  Foil team: 4th place

  Epee team: 5th place

  Saber team: 5th place

• Aage Leidersdorff

  Epee: eliminated in the 2nd round

  Saber: eliminated in the 1st round

  Foil team: 4th place

  Epee team: 5th place

  Saber team: 5th place

• Erik Kofoed-Hansen

  Foil: eliminated in the 1st round

  Epee: eliminated in the 1st round

  Foil team: 4th place

  Epee team: 5th place

  Saber team: 5th place

• Axel Bloch

  Foil: eliminated in the 2nd round

  Saber: eliminated in the 1st round

  Foil team: 4th place

  Epee team: 5th place

  Saber team: 5th place

Women

• Inger Klint

  Foil: eliminated in the 1st round

• Grete Olsen

  Foil: 8th place

• Gerda Munck

  Foil: 7th place

Weightlifting

• Svend Olsen

  Light Heavyweight: Silver

Art competitions

• Einar Utzon-Frank
• Niels Rohweder
• Erik Raadal
• Julius Paulsen
• Knud Merrild
• Hugo Liisberg
• Philip Kran-Petersen
• Not so Holm
• Gerhard Henning
• Harald Hansen
• Ernst Hansen
• Andreas Friis
• Sigurd Forchhammer
• Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen
• Marinus Børup
• Hakon Børresen
• Thyra Boldsen
• Josef Petersen

  Literature: silver

• Jens Hovmøller Klemmensen

  Urban plans: silver

athletics

Men

• Christian Markersen

  1500 m: heats

• Hartington Andersen is different

  Marathon: 10th place

Cycling

• Gunnar Andersen

  Road race: 18th place

• Willy Gervin

  Track Sprint: 5th place

  Rail tandem: bronze

• Harald Christensen

  Track 1000 m time trial: 7th place

  Rail tandem: bronze

• Frode Sørensen

  Road race: 5th place

  Road race team ranking: silver

• Leo Nielsen

  Road race: 9th place

  Road race team ranking: silver

• Henry Hansen

  Road race: 12th place

  Road race team ranking: silver

Wrestling

• Christian Schack

  Featherweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 1st round

  Featherweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Abraham Courland

  Lightweight, Greco-Roman: silver

• Børge Jensen

  Welterweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 3rd round

  Welterweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 2nd round

swim

Women

• Lilli Andersen

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  400 m freestyle: eliminated in the semi-finals

• Else Jacobsen

  200 m chest: bronze

Diving

Women

• Ingrid Larsen

  3 m jumping: 8th place

  10 m high diving: 5th place

Web links

• Danish Olympic team from 1932 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )