2019 in Denmark

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See also:	Other events of 2019 List of years in Denmark

Events in the year 2019 in Denmark.

Incumbents[]

• Monarch – Margrethe II^[1]
• Prime Minister – Lars Løkke Rasmussen

Events[]

• 2 January – Great Belt Bridge rail accident: A DSB express passenger train is hit by a semi-trailer from a passing cargo train on the western bridge of the Great Belt Fixed Link in Denmark, killing eight people and making it the deadliest rail accident in the country since 1988.^[2][3]
• 10–27 January – 2019 World Men's Handball Championship – co-hosted with Germany
• 26 May – The 2019 European Parliament election
• 5 June – 2019 Danish general election
• 27 June – The is presented.
• 16 August –; The government of Denmark rejects the suggestion that the United States might purchase Greenland.^[4]

The arts[]

Film[]

Music[]

Sport[]

Badminton[]

• 17 February – Denmark wins the 2019 European Mixed Team Badminton Championships by defeating Germany 3–0 in the final.
• 24–31 March – Viktor Axelsen wins Men's Single at 2019 India Open.

Cycling[]

• 27 February – 3 March – Denmark wins one silver medal and two bronze medals at the 2019 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
• 39 April – Jakob Fuglsang wins 2019 Liège–Bastogne–Liège.
• 16 June – Jakob Fuglsang wins the Critérium du Dauphiné.
• 29 September – Mads Pedersen wins gold in Men's road race at the 2019 UCI Road World Championships.
• 16–20 October – 2019 UEC European Track Championships
• 17 October — Denmark wins gold in Team Pursuit at the 2019 UEC European Track Championships.
  • 17 October – Denmark wins a gold medal in Team Pursuit.
  • 20 October
    • Amalie Dideriksen and Julie Leth wins a gold medal for Denmark in Women's Madison.
    • Lasse Norman Hansen and Michael Mørkøv wins a gold medal for Denmark in Men's madison.

Golf[]

• 8 December – Rasmus Højgaard wins .

Handball[]

• 27 January – Denmark wins the 2019 World Men's Handball Championship in handball by defeating Norway 31–27 in the final.

Sailing[]

• 30 Oc tober – Anne-Marie Rindom wins the 2019 Women's World Sailor of the Year Award.

Tennis[]

• 8 June – Holger Vitus Nødskov Rune wins the 2019 French Open – Boys' Singles.

Deaths[]

• 5 May - Ib Glindemann, jazz composer and bandleader (born 1934)^[5]
• 10 June – , composer (born 1931)

See also[]

Wikinews has related news: Category: Denmark

• 2019 European Parliament election
• 2019 in Danish music

References[]

Links[]

• Media related to 2019 in Denmark at Wikimedia Commons