Winter Paralympics 2006 / Participant (Denmark)

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Denmark took part in the 2006 Winter Paralympics in Turin with a delegation of three female and three male athletes.

The team could not win a medal. The most successful place was the biathlete Anne-Mette Bredahl , who achieved fourth place over the distance of 12.5 km. The Danish Disabled Sports Federation appointed wheelchair curlers Kenneth Ørbæk and Bjarne Jensen as standard bearers at the opening and closing ceremonies.

Participants by sport

Nordic skiing (biathlon and cross-country skiing)

• Anne-Mette Bredahl

  Biathlon 7.5 km blind: 5th place

  Biathlon 12.5 km blind: 4th place

  Cross-country skiing 5 km freestyle, visually impaired: 7th place

Wheelchair curling

5th place

• Bjarne Jensen
• Rosita Jensen
• Joern Kristensen
• Kenneth Ørbæk
• Sussie Pedersen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ PL: Fornem fjerdeplads til Anne-Mette Bredahl. Dansk Handicap Idræts-Forbund , March 11, 2006, accessed on February 5, 2013 (Danish). 
2. ^ Kristian Larsen: Vinter PL: Kenneth Ørbæk udnævnt som fanebærer. Dansk Handicap Idræts-Forbund , March 9, 2006, accessed February 5, 2013 (Danish). 
3. ↑ Michael Møllgaard Nielsen: Kørestolscurler fanebærer ved de Paralympiske Vinterleges afslutning i Torino. Dansk Handicap Idræts-Forbund , March 18, 2006, accessed on February 5, 2013 (Danish).