Noc: | DEN |
Year: | 2018 |
Games: | Winter Olympics |
Games Link: | 2018 Winter Olympics |
Flagcaption: | Flag of Denmark |
Alt: | Refer to caption |
Nocname: | National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark |
Location: | Pyeongchang, South Korea |
Date: | 9–25 February 2018 |
Competitors: | 17 |
Competitors Men: | 10 |
Competitors Women: | 7 |
Sports: | 5 |
Flagbearer: | Elena Møller Rigas[1] |
Flagbearer Close: | Viktor Hald Thorup |
Gold: | 0 |
Silver: | 0 |
Bronze: | 0 |
Appearances: | auto |
The Kingdom of Denmark is a sovereign state comprising three constituent countries: Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands that competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from 9 to 25 February 2018, with 17 competitors in 5 sports. On 9 January 2018, speed skater Elena Møller Rigas was named as the country's flagbearer during the opening ceremony.[2]
The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline.
width=180 | Sport | width=55 | Men | width=55 | Women | width=55 | Total |
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Alpine skiing | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||
Cross-country skiing | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
Curling | 5 | 5 | 10 | ||||
Freestyle skiing | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Speed skating | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
Total | 10 | 7 | 17 |
See main article: Alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics and Alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification. Denmark qualified one athlete,[3] and received one additional quota place.
Athlete | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Christoffer Faarup | Men's combined | 1:21.08 | 20 | 54.13 | 34 | 2:15.21 | 30 |
Men's downhill | 1:44.48 | 36 | |||||
Men's super-G | 1:27.81 | 32 | |||||
Casper Dyrbye Næsted | Men's giant slalom | 1:20.33 | 69 | 1:18.01 | 56 | 2:38.34 | 60 |
Men's slalom |
See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics and Cross-country skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification. Denmark qualified one male athlete.[4]
Athlete | Event | Final | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Time | Deficit | Rank | |||
align=left rowspan=2 | Martin Møller | Men's 15 km freestyle | 39:35.4 | +5:51.5 | 90 |
Men's 50 km classical | 2:36:10.8 | +27:48.7 | 60 |
See main article: Curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics and Curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification. Denmark qualified both a men's and a women's team by qualifying via the qualification event in Plzeň, Czech Republic.[5] [6]
Team | Event | Group stage | Tiebreaker | Semifinal | Final / | |||||||||||
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Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | ||||
Rasmus Stjerne Johnny Frederiksen Mikkel Poulsen Oliver Dupont Morten Thomsen | Men's tournament | SWE L 5–9 | SUI L 7–9 | ITA W 6–4 | USA L 5–9 | NOR L 8–10 | KOR W 9–8 | GBR L 6–7 | JPN L 4–6 | CAN L 3–8 | 10 | Did not advance | ||||
Madeleine Dupont Denise Dupont Julie Høgh Mathilde Halse Lina Knudsen | Women's tournament | SWE L 3–9 | JPN L 5–8 | CAN W 9–8 | GBR L 6–7 | CHN L 7–10 | USA L 6–7 | OAR L 7–8 | SUI L 4–6 | KOR L 3–9 | 10 | Did not advance |
See main article: Curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament.
See main article: Curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's tournament.
See main article: Freestyle skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics and Freestyle skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification. Denmark has qualified one athlete in Freestyle Skiing.
See main article: Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics and Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification. Denmark earned the following quotas at the conclusion of the four World Cups used for qualification.[7] The Danish speed skating team consists of two male and one female athlete.[8]
Athlete | Event | Semifinal | Final | |||||
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Points | Time | Rank | Points | Time | Rank | |||
Stefan Due Schmidt | align=left rowspan=2 | Men's mass start | 40 | 7:55.22 | 2 Q | 0 | 7:47.53 | 13 |
Viktor Hald Thorup | 5 | 8:34.06 | 4 Q | 8 | 7:57.10 | 5 | ||
Elena Møller Rigas | Women's mass start | 0 | 8:54.39 | 9 | Did not advance |
See main article: Figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics and Figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification. Denmark qualified an ice dancing pair, based on its placement at the 2017 World Figure Skating Championships in Helsinki, Finland.[9] However they relinquished their allocation because Laurence Fournier Beaudry was unable to obtain clearance to participate for Denmark, because he is Canadian, not Danish.