Denmark at the 2016 Summer Olympics
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| Medals | Gold 0 |
Silver 0 |
Bronze 0 |
Total 0 |
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Denmark is scheduled to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016.
Sailing
Denmark has qualified one boat for each of the following events upon receiving a place from the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships.[1]
- Men's sailboard – RS:X (Sebastian Fleischer)
- Men's one-person dinghy – Laser (Thorbjørn Schierup)
- Men's heavyweight one-person dinghy – Finn (Jonas Høgh-Christensen)
- Men's skiff – 49er (Jonas Warrer & Anders Thomsen)
- Women's one-person dinghy – Laser Radial (Anne-Marie Rindom)
- Women's skiff – 49erFX (Ida Marie Baad Nielsen & Marie Thusgaard Olsen)
- Mixed multihull – Nacra 17 (Allan Nørregaard & Line Just Emsvang)
Shooting
Danish shooters have achieved the following quotas based on their performance at the 2014 ISSF World Shooting Championships and the 2015 ISSF World Cup.[2]
- Men's skeet – 1 quota place (Jesper Hansen)
- Women's 10 m air rifle – 1 quota place (Stine Nielsen)
Swimming
Danish swimmers have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)):[3][4] To qualify for the individual events, swimmers must achieve times set by the Danish Swimming Federation and the Danish NOC at either the 2015 World Aquatics Championships, the 2016 Danish Open or the 2016 European Aquatics Championships.[5]
- Olympic Qualifying Time
- Men's 400 m freestyle – 1 quota place (Pál Joensen)
- Men's 1500 m freestyle – 1 quota place (Pál Joensen)
- Men's 200 m butterfly – 1 quota place (Viktor Bromer)
- Women's 50 m freestyle – 1 quota place (Pernille Blume)
- Women's 800 m freestyle – 1 quota place (Lotte Friis)
- Women's 100 m backstroke – 1 quota place (Mie Nielsen)
- Women's 100 m breaststroke – 1 quota place (Rikke Møller Pedersen)
- Women's 200 m breaststroke – 1 quota place (Rikke Møller Pedersen)
- Women's 100 m butterfly – 1 quota place (Jeanette Ottesen)
References
- ↑ "Rio 2016 Olympic Laser Spots Snapped Up At Santander 2014 ISAF Worlds". ISAF. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
- ↑ "Quota places by Nation and Name". ISSF. 23 June 2014. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
- ↑ "Swimming World Rankings". FINA. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
- ↑ "Rio 2016 – FINA Swimming Qualification System" (PDF). Rio 2016 (FINA). Retrieved 23 January 2015.
- ↑ "Aftale om nationale udtagelseskriterier – OL Rio de Janeiro 2016" (PDF). ol.dk (in Danish). National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark. Retrieved 1 April 2015.