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Oscar Wendt is a Swedish footballer who currently plays as a left back for Borussia Mönchengladbach.
Pehr Henrik Ling pioneered the teaching of physical education in Sweden. Ling is credited as the father of Swedish massage.
Denmark first participated at the Olympic Games at the inaugural 1896 Games, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then, except for the sparsely attended 1904 Games. Denmark has also participated in the Winter Olympic Games several times since 1948, including every Games since 1988.
Niels-Christian Holmstrøm is a Danish former football player, manager, chief consultant in Team Danmark and sports director of Danish football club F.C. Copenhagen. Currently he is the chairman of Kjøbenhavns Boldklub and a "special consultant" for F.C. Copenhagen.
Harald Ingemann Nielsen was a Danish association footballer who played as a striker. He played professionally for Italian club Bologna F.C. where he was the league top scorer (capocannoniere) in Bologna's 1964 Serie A championship winning season. Harald Nielsen played 14 games for the Denmark national football team in 1959 and 1960, scoring 15 goals, and he was known as Guld-Harald (Gold-Harald). He was a football entrepreneur having continuously worked for the professionalization of both the Danish national team and the national league.
Jeppe Lund Curth is a retired Danish footballer who played as a forward. He has played 43 matches and scored 15 goals for various Danish youth national teams, most recently the Danish national under-21 team.
Klaus Rifbjerg was a Danish writer. He authored more than 170 novels, books and essays. In 1965 he co-produced the film 4x4 which was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival.
Denmark competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. 152 competitors, 151 men and 1 woman, took part in 46 events in 13 sports.
Yuri van Gelder is a Dutch gymnast, whose best discipline is the rings. His nickname is "Lord of the Rings".
Nicki Niels Bille Nielsen is a Danish footballer who is currently a free agent. He most recently played as a forward for Lyngby BK. He has played for various Danish national youth teams, including 17 games and 8 goals for the Denmark national under-21 football team.
The 27th European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held from 3 April to 6 April 2008 in Clermont-Ferrand.
Nicklas Helenius Jensen is a Danish footballer who plays as a striker for the Danish club OB.
Events from the year 1880 in Denmark.
Paul "Red" Uram is an American former gymnastics and flexibility coach. He is a member of the U.S. Gymanstics Hall of Fame and he coached on four Super Bowl-winning teams with the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League. He also is the author of two books on human movement.
Niels Ebbesen Mortensen Bukh was a Danish gymnast and educator who founded the first athletic folk high school in Ollerup in Funen, Denmark. He achieved international fame as a gymnastics trainer for the Danish team at the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912. He was inspired by the rhythmic female gymnastics of the Finnish gymnastics educator Elli Björkstén (1870–1947) and the medical gymnastics of Kaare Theilmann. Within the tradition of Pehr Henrik Ling, Bukh developed his own primitive gymnastics, aimed at using forceful exercises to prevent stiffness and bad bodily habits. His 1924 book "Grundgymnastik eller primitiv gymnastik" was a manual in his method, which was later adopted by organizations such as the YMCA. Historian Mark Singleton has argued that through the YMCA and their gymnastics training in British India, Bukh's exercises influenced Tirumalai Krishnamacharya's style of asanas in modern yoga. In 1931 his gymnastics team toured the world, visiting Japan where his system became highly influential. His system of exercise became highly popular in Germany, and in 1933 Bukh publicly expressed his allegiance to the National Socialist cause and its aim of improving the health of the Aryan race through gymnastics. This made Bukh unpopular in Denmark, especially after the German occupation of Denmark in 1940. Bukh's support for Nazism caused a backlash when a previous lover publicly revealed Bukh's homosexuality. Bukh had lived together with a male partner for several years, and his sexuality was well known in his family and among his friends and students. Biographers speculate that Bukh never became aware of the Nazi stance against homosexuality, even with his frequent visits to Germany during the 1930s and 1940s. In 1944 he bought Løgismose manor, which he sold again in 1947.
Kasper Pedersen is a Danish football defender, playing for AaB.
Ebere Paul Onuachu is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays for Danish club FC Midtjylland, as a striker.
Nicklas Mouritz Mouritsen is a Danish footballer, who plays for Danish 1st Division side Lyngby Boldklub.
Jakob Saldern Stein Michelsen is a Danish football manager. He is the manager of Danish Superliga club OB.
Denmark participated at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 6 October to 18 October 2018.
