1998 in Denmark explained

Events from the year 1998 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Margrethe II^[1]
• Prime minister - Poul Nyrup Rasmussen

Events

• 14 June - The Great Belt Fixed Link opens to traffic, connecting eastern and western Denmark.^[2]

Culture

Film

• 1 May – The first Dogme 95 film, Thomas Vinterberg's The Celebration, is released.
• 20 May – Dogme #2—Lars von Trier's The Idiots—is released.
• May  - The Celebration wins the Prix du Jury at the 51st Cannes Film Festival.

Music

Sports

Football

• 21 May Brøndby IF wins the 1997–98 Danish Cup by defeating F.C. Copenhagen 41 in the final.
• 10 June  - 12 July  - Denmark participates in the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France.
  • 24 June – Denmark takes the second place in Group C of the initial group stage and is on to the knockout stage.
  • 28 June Denmark defeats Nigeria 4 - 1 in the Round of 16.
  • 3 July – Denmark is defeated 3 - 2 by Brazil in the quarterfinal.

Badminton

• Kastrup Magleby BK wins the Europe Cup.

Cycling

• 8 April – Lars Michaelsen finishes second in the Gent–Wevelgem road cycling race in Belgium.
• April – Bo Hamburger wins La Flèche Wallonne.
• 29 August – Rolf Sørensen wins the 1998 Ronde van Nederland.
• Silvio Martinello (ITA) and Marco Villa (ITA) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.

Handball

• 20 December  - Denmark wins silver at the 1998 European Women's Handball Championship in the Netherlands after being defeated by Norway in the final.

Other

• 1 February – Thomas Bjørn wins Heineken Classic in Australia on the 1998 European Tour.
• 18 - 25 April – With five gold medals, two silver medals and six bronze medals, Denmark finishes as the best nation at the 16th European Badminton Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.
• 3 September – Erik Gundersen wins the 1988 Individual Speedway World Championship.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 23 January – Thomas Meilstrup, singer, actor and son of Gry Meilstrup.
• 31 March – Oskar Buur, soccer player

AprilJune

• 2 May Anders Dreyer, footballer

JulySeptember

• 24 July – Hugo Helmig, musician (died 2022)

OctoberDecember

• 29 October – Prince Constantine Alexios of Greece and Denmark, eldest son and second child of Crown Prince Pavlos and Crown Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece

Deaths

• 3 June Poul Bundgaard, actor and singer (born 1922)
• 5 September – Verner Panton, designer (born 1926)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Margrethe II queen of Denmark . Encyclopedia Britannica . 16 June 2019 . en.
2. Web site: 34 million Danes have crossed the Great Belt by train. DSB. 2009-11-23.