Denmark at the 1900 Summer Olympics
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| IOC code | DEN | ||||||||
| NOC | National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark | ||||||||
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| Competitors | 13 in 5 sports | ||||||||
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Medals Ranked 10th |
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Denmark competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. The Danish contingent, 13 men, competed in 5 sports and had 30 entries in 14 events.
Additionally, Edgar Aabye, Eugen Schmidt, and Charles Winckler were part of a mixed team (with three athletes from Sweden) that won the gold medal in tug of war.
Four athletes competed in six athletics events, taking a bronze medal.
Denmark competed in fencing for the second time in 1900. The team won no medals that time.
Denmark competed again at the second Olympic shooting events. Jensen, who had been more successful in weightlifting four years earlier but had won a bronze medal in shooting, returned. This time, he received no shooting medals. Madsen won an individual gold medal, while Nielsen took three individual silvers including the overall. The team did not take a medal in the team event, though they came close with a score only 13 points less than bronze medallist France's.
Denmark entered one event in its inaugural Olympic swimming appearance, with Lykkeberg taking the bronze medal.
Denmark contributed 3 of the 6 members of the gold medal winning team in the inaugural tug of war competition.
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