1984 Summer Olympics / Participant (Denmark)

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Denmark took part in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles with a delegation of 60 athletes, 49 men and 11 women, in 33 competitions in eleven sports. The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was the cyclist Michael Marcussen .

Medalist

silver

Surname	sport	competition
Henning Lynge Jakobsen	canoe	Men, Canadier-One, 500 meters
Anne Grethe Jensen	horse riding	Dressage, singles
Ole Riber Rasmussen	shoot	Open class, skeet

bronze

Surname	sport	competition
Henning Lynge Jakobsen	canoe	Men, Canadier-One, 1000 meters
Erik Christiansen , Michael Jessen , Lars Nielsen & Per Rasmussen	rowing	Men, foursome without a helmsman
Hanne Eriksen , Birgitte Hanel , Inger Køfød , Bodil Steen Rasmussen & Jette Hejli Sørensen	rowing	Women, double fours with helmswoman

Participants by sport

Weightlifting

• Henri Høeg

  Men, middle heavyweight: 7th place

Handball

• Mänenrturmier

  4th Place

• Squad

  Morten Stig Christensen

  Dahl-Nielsen is different

  Peter Michael Fenger

  Jørgen Gluver

  Hans Henrik Hattesen

  Carsten Haurum

  Klaus Sletting Jensen

  Mogens Jeppesen

  Keld Nielsen

  Erik Veje Rasmussen

  Jens Erik Roepstorff

  Per Skaarup

  Michael Strøm

  Poul Sørensen

Judo

• Carsten Jensen

  Men, light heavyweight: 13th place

canoe

• Henning Lynge Jakobsen

  Men, canoe single, 500 meters: silver

  Men, canoe single, 1000 meters: bronze

athletics

• Henrik Jørgensen

  Men, marathon: 19th place

• Dorthe Rasmussen

  Women, marathon: 13th place

• Allan Zachariasen

  Men, marathon: 25th place

Cycling

• Ole Byriel

  Men, road racing: DNF

• John Carlsen

  Men, 100 kilometers team time trial: 7th place

• Kim Eriksen

  Men, road racing: 40th place

  Men, 100 kilometers team time trial: 7th place

• Dan Frost

  Men, 4000 meters team pursuit: 5th place

• Lars Jensen

  Men, 100 kilometers team time trial: 7th place

• Henning L. Larsen

  Men, 4000 meters single pursuit: 18th place in qualification

• Søren Lilholt

  Men, road racing: DNF

  Men, 100 kilometers team time trial: 7th place

• Michael Marcussen

  Men, 4000 meters team pursuit: 5th place

  Men, points race: 9th place

• Jørgen Pedersen

  Men, 4000 meters single pursuit: 5th place

  Men, 4000 meters team pursuit: 5th place

• Per Pedersen

  Men, road races: 24th place

• Claus Rasmussen

  Men, 1000 meters time trial: 15th place

• Brian Holm Sørensen

  Men, 4000 meters team pursuit: 5th place

  Men, points race: 17th place

• Helle Sørensen

  Women, road races: 7th place

horse riding

• Marie-Louise Castenskiold

  Dressage, individual: 32nd place

  Dressage, team: 5th place

• Anne Grethe Jensen-Törnblad

  Dressage, individual: silver

  Dressage, team: 5th place

• Torben Ulsø Olsen

  Dressage, individual: 20th place

  Dressage, team: 5th place

rowing

• Lise Justesen

  Women, one: 5th place

• Erik Christiansen , Michael Jessen , Lars Nielsen & Per Rasmussen

  Men, foursome without a helmsman: bronze

• Hanne Eriksen , Birgitte Hanel , Lotte Koefoed , Bodil Steen Rasmussen & Jette Hejli Sørensen

  Women, sculls with helmsman: bronze

shoot

• Bo Lilja

  Men, small caliber, three-position fight: 5th place

  Men, small caliber, lying: 17th place

• Niels Peder Pedersen

  Men, air rifle: 10th place

• Ole Riber Rasmussen

  Skeet: silver

swim

• Franz Mortensen

  Men, 100 meters freestyle: 24th place

  Men, 200 meters freestyle: 23rd place

  Men, 400 meters freestyle: 30th place

• Søren Østberg

  Men, 100 meters butterfly: 15th place

  Men, 200 meters butterfly: 26th place

• Peter Rohde

  Men, 100 meters freestyle: 16th place

  Men, 200 meter medley: 13th place

sailing

• Leave Hjortnæs

  Finn dinghy: 12th place

• Paul Elvstrøm & Trine Elvstrøm-Myralf

  Tornado: 4th place

• Jacob Bojsen-Møller & Jørgen Bojsen-Møller

  Flying Dutchman: 4th place

• Thomas Andersen , Jesper Bank & Jan Mathiasen

  Soling: 12th place

Web links

• Danish Olympic team from 1984 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )