1976 Summer Olympics / Participant (Denmark)

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Denmark took part in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal with a delegation of 66 athletes (56 men and 10 women) in 40 competitions in 15 sports.

The Danish athletes won one gold medal and two bronze medals. Olympic champions were the sailors Valdemar Bandolowski , Erik Hansen and Poul Høj Jensen in the boat class Soling . The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was the rower Judith Andersen .

Participants by sport

Archery

Men

• Arne Jacobsen

  Singles: 25th place

Boxing

• Hans Henrik Palm

  Lightweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Ib Bøtcher

  Welterweight: eliminated in the second round

• Poul Frandsen

  Light middleweight: eliminated in the 1st round

fencing

Women

• Max Madsen

  Foil: 24th place

Weightlifting

• Erling Johansen

  Light heavyweight: 9th place

Handball

• 8th place

  Dahl-Nielsen is different

  Bent Larsen

  Claus From

  Henrik Jacobsgaard

  Jesper Munk Petersen

  Johnny Piechnik

  Jørgen Frandsen

  Kay Jørgensen

  Lars Bock

  Palle Jensen

  Thomas Pazyj

  Thor Munkager

  Søren Andersen

canoe

Women

• Kate Olsen

  Single kayak 500 m: eliminated in the semi-finals

athletics

Men

• Ruben Sørensen

  1500 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Jørgen Jensen

  Marathon: 28th place

• Jesper Tørring

  High jump: 8th place

Modern pentathlon

• Jørn Steffensen

  Singles: 7th place

• Klaus Petersen

  Individual: 27th place

Cycling

• Verner Blaudzun

  Road Race: Race not finished

  Team time trial: bronze

• Jørgen Emil Hansen

  Road Race: Race not finished

  Team time trial: bronze

• Bent Pedersen

  Road Race: Race not finished

• Willy Skibby

  Road Race: Race not finished

• Gert Frank

  Team time trial: bronze

• Jørn Lund

  Team time trial: bronze

• Niels Fredborg

  Track Sprint: 7th place

  Track 1000 m time trial: bronze

• Ivar Jakobsen

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: 13th place

• Kim Refshammer

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: 13th place

• Bjarne Sørensen

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: 13th place

• Kim Svendsen

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: 13th place

horse riding

• Ulla Petersen

  Dressage: 8th place

  Dressage team: 6th place

• Tonny Jensen

  Dressage: 12th place

  Dressage team: 6th place

• Nils Haagensen

  Dressage: 22nd place

  Dressage team: 6th place

rowing

Men

• Kim Rørbæk

  Two without a helmsman: eliminated in the quarter-finals

• Mogens Rasmussen

  Two without a helmsman: eliminated in the quarter-finals

Women

• Kirsten Thomsen

  Double foursome with helmsman: 6th place

• Else Mærsk-Kristensen

  Double foursome with helmsman: 6th place

• Judith Andersen

  Double foursome with helmsman: 6th place

• Karen Margrethe Nielsen

  Double foursome with helmsman: 6th place

• Kirsten Plum Jensen

  Double foursome with helmsman: 6th place

shoot

• Kell Runland

  Rapid fire pistol 25 m: 15th place

• Niels Dahl

  Free pistol 50 m: 31st place

• Henning Clausen

  Small bore rifle, three-position fight, 50 m: 20th place

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 7th place

• Bo Lilja

  Small-bore rifle, three-position fight 50 m: 35th place

• Hate Persson

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 72nd place

• Ernst Pedersen

  Skeet: 14th place

• Kjeld Rasmussen

  Skeet: 14th place

swim

Women

• Susanne Nielsson

  100 m chest: eliminated in the semifinals

  200 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Karin Deleurand

  100 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

sailing

• Jørgen Lindhardsen

  Finn dinghy: 14th place

• Dan Ibsen Sørensen

  470 dinghy: 12th place

• Lars Lønberg

  470 dinghy: 12th place

• Claes Thunbo Christensen

  Tempest: 6th place

• Finn Thunbo Christensen

  Tempest: 6th place

• Per Kjærgaard Nielsen

  Tornado: 9th place

• Peter Due

  Tornado: 9th place

• Erik Hansen

  Soling: gold

• Poul Høj Jensen

  Soling: gold

• Valdemar Bandolowski

  Soling: gold

do gymnastics

• Ole Benediktson

  Individual all-around: 72nd place

  Floor: 75th place

  Horse jump: 60th place

  Bars: 61st place

  Horizontal bar: 58th place

  Rings: 87th place

  Pommel horse: 70th place

Web links

• Danish Olympic team from 1976 in the database of Sports-Reference (English, archive link)