1986 in Denmark
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{{Year in Denmark|1986}}
Events from the year 1986 in Denmark.
Incumbents
Events
=Undated=
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Sport
- 30 March – 5 April – With three gold medals, three silver medals and three bronze medals, Denmark finishes as the best nation at the 10th European Badminton Championships in Uppsala, Sweden.
=Badminton=
- Gentofte BK wins the Europe Cup.
- 16 March {{ndash}} Morten Frost wins gold in men's singles at the 1986 All England Open Badminton Championships.
=Cycling=
- April – Kim Andersen wins Paris–Camembert.
- August – Jørgen Marcussen wins Trofeo Matteotti.
- Danny Clark (AUS) and Tony Doyle (GBR) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.
- Denmark wins one gold medal, one silver medal and one bronze medal at the 1986 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.
=Equestrian sports=
- Date unknown {{ndash}} Anne Grethe Jensen wins a gold medal at the World Dressage Championships in Cavan Monaghan, Canada.
Births
= January–March =
- 16 January – Hans-Kristian Vittinghus, badminton player
- 9 February – Stina Lykke Borg, footballer
- 4 March {{ndash}} Amanda Collin, actress
- 12 March {{ndash}} Kasper Irming Andersen, handball player
- 15 March {{ndash}} Jannik Hansen, ice hockey player
= April–July =
- 14 April {{ndash}} Michael Færk Christensen, cyclist
- 16 April {{ndash}} Peter Regin, ice hockey player
- 18 April {{ndash}} Denice Klarskov, pornographic film actress
- 20 April {{ndash}} Jonas Aaen Jørgensen, racing cyclist
- 3 May – Mads Christiansen, handballer
- 6 May {{ndash}} Marie Bjerre, politician
- 12 May – Christinna Pedersen, badminton player{{cite web|title=Christinna PEDERSEN - Olympic Badminton {{!}} Denmark|url=https://www.olympic.org/christinna-pedersen|website=International Olympic Committee|access-date=25 November 2019|language=en|date=26 June 2016}}
- 27 May – Lasse Schöne, footballer
- 11 June – Leon Jessen, footballer
- 20 July {{ndash}} Theresa Eslund, footballer
= September–December =
- 18 September {{ndash}} Tobias Mikkelsen, footballer
- 27 September {{ndash}} Olga Ravn, author
- 27 September {{ndash}} Natasha Thomas, singer and songwriter
- 15 October {{ndash}} Janni Arnth, footballer
- 5 November {{ndash}} Kasper Schmeichel, footballer
- 2 December – Ken Ilsø, footballer
- 18 December {{ndash}} Henrik Toft Hansen, handball player
Deaths
- 1 April (in Canada) – Erik Bruhn, ballet dancer, choreographer, company director, actor (born 1928)
- 19 April {{ndash}} Gudrun Stig Aagaard, textile artist (born 1895)
- 27 July {{ndash}} Anna Sofie Boesen Dreijer, textile artist (born 1899)
- 29 September – Prince Georg of Denmark (born 1920)
See also
References
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