1980 Summer Olympics / Participant (Denmark)

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Denmark took part in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow with a delegation of 58 athletes (55 men and 3 women) in 30 competitions in 13 sports.

The Danish athletes won two gold, one silver and two bronze medals. In the medal table of the games, Denmark placed 16th. Olympic champions were the shooter Kjeld Rasmussen in the skeet and the sailors Valdemar Bandolowski , Erik Hansen and Poul Høj Jensen in the boat class Soling .

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Jesper Garnell

  Lightweight: eliminated in the last sixteen

• Ole Svendsen

  Welterweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Michael Madsen

  Light Heavyweight: Eliminated in the quarterfinals

fencing

Men

• Max Madsen

  Foil: 32nd place

Weightlifting

• Erling Johansen

  Light heavyweight: 12th place

Handball

Men

• 9th place

  Dahl-Nielsen is different

  Bjarne Jeppesen

  Carsten Haurum

  Erik Bue Pedersen

  Hans Henrik Hattesen

  Iver Grunnet

  Michael Berg

  Mogens Jeppesen

  Morten Stig Christensen

  Ole Nørskov Sørensen

  Palle Jensen

  Per Skaarup

  Poul Kjær Poulsen

  Thomas Pazyj

canoe

Men

• Hans Christian Lassen

  Single Canoe 1000 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

athletics

Men

• Jens Smedegaard Hansen

  400 m: eliminated in the semi-finals

• Jørn Lauenborg

  Marathon: race not finished

Cycling

• Henning Jørgensen

  Road race: 31st place

• Verner Blaudzun

  Road race: 42nd place

• Allan Jacobsen

  Road Race: Race not finished

• Per Sandahl Jørgensen

  Road Race: Race not finished

• Per Kærsgaard Laursen

  Team time trial: 10th place

• Michael Marcussen

  Team time trial: 10th place

• Jesper Worre

  Team time trial: 10th place

• Jørgen V. Pedersen

  Team time trial: 10th place

• Henrik Salée

  Track Sprint: 5th place

• Bjarne Sørensen

  Track 1000 m time trial: 8th place

• Hans-Henrik Ørsted

  Track 4000 m single pursuit: bronze

Wrestling

• Kaj Jægergaard Hansen

  Welterweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Svend Erik Studsgaard

  Heavyweight, Greco-Roman: 8th place

rowing

Men

• Michael Jessen

  Two without a helmsman: not started in the final

• Erik Christiansen

  Two without a helmsman: not started in the final

• Pure modest

  Quadruple: 9th place

• Per Rasmussen

  Quadruple: 9th place

• Morten Espersen

  Quadruple: 9th place

• Ole Bloch Jensen

  Quadruple: 9th place

Women

• Lise Justesen

  One: 9th place

shoot

• Henning Clausen

  Small bore rifle, three-position fight, 50 m: 9th place

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 25th place

• Finn Danielsen

  Small bore rifle, three-position fight 50 m: 17th place

• Kjeld Rasmussen

  Skeet: gold

• Ole Justesen

  Skeet: 10th place

swim

Women

• Susanne Nielsson

  100 m chest: bronze

  200 m chest: 4th place

sailing

• Leave Hjortnæs

  Finn dinghy: 13th place

• Jens Christensen

  Star: 5th place

• Morten Nielsen

  Star: 5th place

• Jacob Bojsen-Møller

  Flying Dutchman: 6th place

• Jørgen Bojsen-Møller

  Flying Dutchman: 6th place

• Peter Due

  Tornado: silver

• Per Kjærgaard Nielsen

  Tornado: silver

• Valdemar Bandolowski

  Soling: gold

• Erik Hansen

  Soling: gold

• Poul Høj Jensen

  Soling: gold

Diving

Men

• Claus Thomsen

  10 m high diving: 10th place

Web links

• Danish Olympic team from 1980 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )