Hvalsø is a town and a former municipality in Region Sjælland on the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in east Denmark. The former municipality covered an area of 72 km2, and had a total population of 7,856 (2005). Its last mayor was Virginia Holst, a member of the Venstre political party. She was the first foreign national becoming mayor in a Danish municipality.
Camilla Martin Nygaard is a retired badminton player from Denmark. She and Lene Køppen, who played two decades earlier, are the only Danish women to have won both the All England and World Championships singles titles.
Denmark competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, but only competed in one sport: women's curling. Denmark's only medal at the Winter Olympics came in women's curling in 1998.
Lene Rantala is a former Danish handball player, two times Olympic champion and a World champion. Rantala is currently assistant coach for Vipers Kristiansand in the Norwegian REMA 1000-ligaen.
Jane Bidstrup is a Danish curler and Olympic medalist. She received a silver medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. She was part of the bronze-team at the 1997 World Curling Championships.
Mathias Andreas Bidstrup was a Danish architect.
Herluf Bidstrup was a Danish cartoonist and illustrator.
Events from the year 1979 in Denmark.
Events from the year 1968 in Denmark.
The 1999 World Women's Curling Championship was held at Harbour Station in Saint John, New Brunswick from April 3–10, 1999. The event was held in conjunction with the 1999 World Men's Curling Championship. It was the first Women's World Championship to be held in Atlantic Canada.
Lene Terp is a Danish professional football manager and former player. She is currently the manager of the Faroe Islands women's national football team. She captained the Danish national team from 1998 until her retirement in 2003.
Stefan Bidstrup is a retired Danish footballer who played as a midfielder.
Lene Skov Andersson is a Danish rower. Along with Berit Christoffersen she finished 5th in the women's lightweight double sculls at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Lene Nielsen is a Danish curler. She was the skip of the 2014 Danish Olympic Curling Team.
Rø Church is a parish church located in the little village of Rø in the north of the Danish island of Bornholm. Completed in 1888, it replaces a Romanesque building dating from c. 1200 which was demolished in 1887 as a result of structural problems.
Denmark competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, from 7 to 23 February 2014. A team of 12 athletes in 3 sports are competing for the team. Their best placements were sixth in men's and women's curling.
The Robert Award for Best Makeup is an award presented by the Danish Film Academy at the annual Robert Awards ceremony. It has been handed out since 1987, but had no honorees in 1988, 1989, and 1991.
Lene Madsen is a Danish former football forward who played for the Denmark women's national football team. She competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics, playing three matches.
Mads Bidstrup is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Austrian Bundesliga club Red Bull Salzburg.
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