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    • Source: 1998 in Denmark

      • Events from the year 1998 in Denmark.


      Incumbents


      Monarch - Margrethe II
      Prime minister - Poul Nyrup Rasmussen


      Events


      14 June - The Great Belt Fixed Link opens to traffic, connecting eastern and western Denmark.


      Culture




      = Architecture

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      = 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.


      = Literature

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      = Music

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      Sports




      = Football

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      21 May – Brøndby IF wins the 1997–98 Danish Cup by defeating F.C. Copenhagen 4–1 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

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      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

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      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

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      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




      = January–March

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


      = April–June

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      2 May – Anders Dreyer, footballer


      = July–September

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      24 July – Hugo Helmig, musician (died 2022)


      = October–December

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      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)


      References

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