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HOW IT WORKS
1998 in Denmark
Summary
Events from the year 1998
in Denmark
.
←
1997
1996
1995
1998
in
Denmark
→
1999
2000
2001
Decades:
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
See also:
Other events of 1998
List of years in Denmark
Incumbents
edit
Monarch -
Margrethe II
[1]
Prime minister -
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen
Events
edit
14 June - The
Great Belt Fixed Link
opens to traffic, connecting eastern and western Denmark.
[2]
Culture
edit
Architecture
edit
Film
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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
edit
Music
edit
Sports
edit
Football
edit
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
edit
Kastrup Magleby BK wins the
Europe Cup
.
Cycling
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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
edit
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
edit
January–March
edit
23 January –
Thomas Meilstrup
, singer, actor and son of
Gry Meilstrup
.
31 March –
Oskar Buur
, soccer player
April–June
edit
2 May –
Anders Dreyer
, footballer
July–September
edit
24 July –
Hugo Helmig
, musician (died
2022
)
October–December
edit
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
edit
3 June –
Poul Bundgaard
, actor and singer (born
1922
.
5 September –
Verner Panton
, designer (born
1926
)
References
edit
^
"Margrethe II | queen of Denmark".
Encyclopedia Britannica
. Retrieved
16 June
2019
.
^
"34 million Danes have crossed the Great Belt by train". DSB
. Retrieved
23 November
2009
.