Denmark at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics explained

Noc:	DEN
Nocname:	Danish Olympic Committee
Games Link:	2024 Winter Youth Olympics
Games:	Winter Youth Olympics
Year:	2024
Flagcaption:	Flag of Denmark
Location:	Gangwon, South Korea
Competitors:	21
Sports:	5
Flagbearer Open:	Max Kramer & Maja Voigt
Flagbearer Close:	TBD
Rank:	16
Gold:	1
Silver:	3
Bronze:	0
Appearances:	auto

Denmark is scheduled to compete at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics in Gangwon, South Korea, from 19 January to 1 February 2024. This will be Denmark's fourth appearance at the Winter Youth Olympic Games, having competed at every Games since the inaugural edition in 2012.

Ice hockey player Max Kramer and bobsledder Maja Voigt were the country's flagbearers during the opening ceremony.^[1]

On 22 January, bobsledder Maja Voigt earned the gold medal in the women's monobob, becoming the first Danish athlete to win a Winter Youth Olympics medal outside of mixed-NOC competition.^[2]

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors (per gender) participating at the games per sport/discipline.

width=120	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Biathlon	0	1	1
Bobsleigh	0	1	1
Curling	2	2	4
Ice hockey	13	0	13
Skeleton	1	1	2
Total	16	5	21

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
		Bobsleigh	Women's monobob
	Denmark men's national under-16 ice hockey team	Ice hockey	Men's 3x3 tournament
		Curling	Mixed doubles

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics.

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Misses	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Leonora Rønhede	Sprint
Individual		3 (0+3+0+0)	14

Bobsleigh

See main article: Bobsleigh at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics. Denmark qualified one female bobsledder.^[3]

Curling

See main article: Curling at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics. Denmark qualified a mixed team and mixed doubles for a total of six athletes (three per gener).^{[4] [5]} However, the final team named had the mixed doubles pair also being a part of the mixed team tournament.

Summary

Team	Event	Group Stage								Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Jacob Schmidt Katrine Schmidt Nikki Jensen Emilie Holtermann	Mixed team	L 6–7	W 6–4	W 14–1	W 7–3	L 4–5	W 7–6	W 4–2	2 Q	W 8–3	W 6–4	L 5–7
Katrine Schmidt Jacob Schmidt	Mixed doubles	W 13–3	L 3–6	W 11–4	W 9–4	W 15–3	1 Q	W 9–7	W 6–5	L 6–7

Mixed team

See main article: Curling at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics – Mixed team.

width=140	Group B	width=150	Skip	width=20		width=20		width=30		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20
		6	1	–	44	30	26	21	4	7	51.75
		5	2	–	48	28	27	20	2	9	34.70
		4	3	2–0	52	35	25	23	5	7	39.96
		4	3	1–1	46	38	29	23	3	7	50.58
		4	3	0–2	48	33	24	22	3	8	109.88
		3	4	–	40	34	24	20	3	11	35.43
		1	6	1–0	17	81	13	31	0	2	103.39
		1	6	0–1	30	46	19	27	2	5	68.51

Round robin

Draw 1Saturday, January 20, 14:00

Draw 2Sunday, January 21, 10:00

Draw 3Sunday, January 21, 18:00

Draw 4Monday, January 22, 14:00

Draw 5Tuesday, January 23, 10:00

Draw 6Tuesday, January 23, 18:00

Draw 7Wednesday, January 24, 13:00

Qualification GameWednesday, January 24, 19:00

SemifinalThursday, January 25, 9:00

Gold medal gameThursday, January 25, 18:00

Mixed doubles

See main article: Curling at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics – Mixed doubles.

width=140	Group D	width=20		width=20		width=30		width=20
	4	1	1–1	30.64
	4	1	1–1	31.04
	4	1	1–1	79.90
	2	3	–	40.68
	1	4	–	44.33
	0	5	–	107.78

Round robin

Draw 2Saturday, January 27, 10:00

Draw 6Sunday, January 28, 14:00

Draw 8Monday, January 29, 10:00

Draw 13Tuesday, January 30, 18:00

Draw 15Wednesday, January 31, 12:30

QuarterfinalWednesday, January 31, 19:00

SemifinalThursday, February 1, 9:00

Gold medal gameThursday, February 1, 16:00

Ice hockey

See main article: Ice hockey at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics. Denmark qualified thirteen ice hockey players for the men's 3-on-3 tournament.^{[6] [7]}

RosterLasse Thomsen served as head coach.^{[8] [9]}

• Lucas Althof Christensen – A
• Frederik Bech
• Mikkel Bjerre
• William Brix
• Luca Bærentsen
• Emil Saaby Jakobsen
• Andreas Jørgensen
• Max Kramer – C
• Mikkel Poulsen
• Gustav Remler-Jensen
• Martinus Uggerhøj Schioldan – A
• Casey Joshua Silverman
• Anton Emil Wilde Larsen

Summary

Men's 3x3 tournament

Preliminary round

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Semifinals

Final

Skeleton

See main article: Skeleton at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Daniel Pedersen	Men's	55.56	12	55.38	12	1:50.94	12
Nanna Vestergaard Johansen	Women's	55.74	8	54.54	2	1:50.28	4

See also

• Denmark at the 2024 Summer Olympics

Notes and References

1. Web site: Gangwon 2024 Opening Ceremony Flagbearers Information. 19 January 2024. www.olympics.com/. International Olympic Committee (IOC). 19 January 2024.
2. News: Denmark wins historic gold. Danish. 22 January 2024. Danmark vinder historisk guld. Ritzau. Copenhagen, Denmark. 24 January 2024.
3. Web site: Gangwon 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games - IBSF Youth Olympics Ranking List – Monobob Women. International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF). www.ibsf.org/. 12 December 2023. 23 December 2023.
4. Web site: Gangwon 2024 Youth Olympic Games Teams Confirmed. 12 April 2023. www.worldcurling.org. World Curling Federation (WCF). 12 September 2023.
5. Web site: Teams for Gangwon 2024 Youth Olympics curling competitions confirmed. Shefferd. Neil. 14 April 2023. Insidethegames.biz. Dunsar Media. 23 December 2023.
6. Web site: Ice hockey at Gangwon 2024 Youth Olympic Games: Preview, full schedule, and how to watch live YOG action. 13 January 2024. www.olympics.com/. International Olympic Committee (IOC). 13 January 2024.
7. Web site: Denne trup er klar til Youth Olympics . . 27 January 2024 . da-DK . 4 January 2024.
8. Web site: Ice Hockey, Men's 3-on-3 Tournament – Team Roster: DEN - Denmark . . 26 January 2024 . 25 January 2024.
9. Web site: Ice Hockey, Men's 3-on-3 Tournament, Gold Medal Game, Game 32 – Line-ups: LAT-DEN . . 26 January 2024 . 25 January 2024.