1980 in Denmark
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{{Year in Denmark|1980}}
Events from the year 1980 in Denmark.
Incumbents
Events
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Sports
- July 19 – July 3 — Denmark at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow: 2 gold medals, 1 silver medal and 2 bronze medals.
=Badminton=
- 23 March {{ndash}} Lene Køppen wins gold in women's single at the 1980 All England Open Badminton Championships.
- 27 May {{ndash}} 1 June {{ndash}} Denmark wins four bronze medals at the 1980 IBF World Championships.
- 17–20 April — With two gold medals, two silver medals and three bronze medals, Denmark finishes as the best nation at the 7th European Badminton Championships in Groningen, Netherlands.
- Hvidovre BK wins silver at Europe Cup.
=Cycling=
- Albert Fritz (FRG) and Patrick Sercu (BEL) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.
Births
= January–February =
- 1 January – Karina Jacobsgaard, tennis player
- 16 January – Lars Bak, bicycle racer
- 29 January – Peter Løvenkrands, footballer
- 1 February – Ellen Trane Nørby, politician
- 17 February – Eva Dyrberg, former tennis player
- 28 February – Christian Poulsen, football player
= March–June =
- 21 March {{ndash}} Marit Bjørgen, cross-country skier
- 28 March {{ndash}} Rasmus Seebach, singer
- 31 March {{ndash}} Martin Albrechtsen, footballer
- 5 April {{ndash}} Rasmus Quist Hansen, rower
- 12 April {{ndash}} Peter Plaugborg, actor
- 5 May {{ndash}} Martin Retov, football coach and former player
- 30 June {{ndash}} Morten Skoubo, footballer
= July–September =
- 11 July – Mathias Boe, badminton player
- 11 August – Jerry Lucena, Danish-Filipino footballer
- 17 August – Christian Keller, footballer
- 7 September – Rikke Skov, handball player
- 30 September – Jakob Michelsen, football manager
= October–December =
- 8 October – Kasper Bøgelund, footballer
- 23 October {{ndash}} Jesper Nøddesbo, handballer
- 25 October – Ditte Jensen, freestyle swimmer
- 28 October – Agnes Obel, musician
- 2 November – Thomas Bredahl, guitarist
- 13 November – Morten Messerschmidt, politician
Deaths
- 18 April – Poul Kjærholm, furniture designer (born 1929)
- 3 September – Dirch Passer, actor (born 1926)
- 6 September {{ndash}} Gustav Weinreich, woodcarver and furniture maker (born 1886)
- 13 December {{ndash}} Svend Olsen, weightlifter (born 1908)
See also
References
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