Denmark at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Denmark competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. The National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark sent the nation's second largest delegation to the Games after the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. A total of 113 athletes, 63 men and 50 women, competed in 17 sports, although two additional athletes played as team reserves. Handball was the only team-based sport in which Denmark was represented in at these Olympic games.

Denmark at the 2012 Summer Olympics
IOC code	DEN
NOC	National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark
Website	www.dif.dk (in Danish and English)
in London
Competitors	113 in 17 sports
Flag bearers	Kim Wraae Knudsen (opening) Allan Nørregaard (closing)
Medals Ranked 29th	Gold 2 Silver 4 Bronze 3 Total 9
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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1906 Intercalated Games

The Danish team included several past Olympic champions, one of them defending (the men's lightweight coxless fours team, led by veteran rowers Eskild Ebbesen and Morten Jørgensen). Notable athletes included tennis player Caroline Wozniacki, and swimmer Lotte Friis, who won a bronze medal in Beijing. Kim Wraae Knudsen, silver medalist in the men's sprint kayak doubles in Beijing, was the nation's flag bearer at the opening ceremony.

Team Danmark and the Danish Sports' Union (Dansk Idræts-Forbund, DIF) set a goal of eight medals.^[1] Team Danmark and DIF also believed Denmark had the best chances of winning a medal in wrestling, shooting, cycling, handball, the equestrian events, rowing, athletics, badminton and sailing. At the end of the Games, Denmark had reached beyond the medal target by a single point.

Denmark left London with a total of 9 medals (2 gold, 4 silver, and 3 bronze), this being considered its most successful Olympics in 64 years. The gold medals were won by rowers Rasmus Quist Hansen and Mads Rasmussen in the men's lightweight double sculls, and track cyclist Lasse Norman Hansen in the first ever men's omnium. Other medals were awarded to the team in sailing, shooting, badminton, and women's rowing. Several Danish athletes narrowly missed out on the medal standings in their sporting events, including two competitors in the Greco-Roman wrestling.

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Gold Rasmus Quist Mads Rasmussen Rowing Men's lightweight double sculls 4 August  Gold Lasse Norman Hansen Cycling Men's omnium 5 August  Silver Anders Golding Shooting Men's skeet 31 July  Silver Fie Udby Erichsen Rowing Women's single sculls 4 August  Silver Jonas Høgh-Christensen Sailing Finn class 5 August  Silver Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen Badminton Men's doubles 5 August  Bronze Kasper Winther Jørgensen Morten Jørgensen Jacob Barsøe Eskild Ebbesen Rowing Men's lightweight coxless four 2 August  Bronze Joachim Fischer Christinna Pedersen Badminton Mixed doubles 3 August  Bronze Peter Lang Allan Nørregaard Sailing 49er 8 August

Medals by sport Sport Total Rowing 1 1 1 3 Cycling 1 0 0 1 Badminton 0 1 1 2 Sailing 0 1 1 2 Shooting 0 1 0 1 Total 2 4 3 9

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games: Sport Men Women Total Archery 0 3 3 Athletics 3 3 6 Badminton 6 4 10 Boxing 1 0 1 Canoeing 4 1 5 Cycling 10 1 11 Equestrian 0 4 4 Gymnastics 1 0 1 Handball 14 14 28 Rowing 7 3 10 Sailing 5 6 11 Shooting 3 2 5 Swimming 5 5 10 Table tennis 2 1 3 Tennis 0 1 1 Triathlon 0 2 2 Wrestling 2 0 2 Total 63 50 113

Medals by date Day Date Total Day 1 28 July 0 0 0 0 Day 2 29 July 0 0 0 0 Day 3 30 July 0 0 0 0 Day 4 31 July 0 1 0 1 Day 5 1 August 0 0 0 0 Day 6 2 August 0 0 1 1 Day 7 3 August 0 0 1 1 Day 8 4 August 1 1 0 2 Day 9 5 August 1 2 0 3 Day 10 6 August 0 0 0 0 Day 11 7 August 0 0 0 0 Day 12 8 August 0 0 1 1 Day 13 9 August 0 0 0 0 Day 14 10 August 0 0 0 0 Day 15 11 August 0 0 0 0 Day 16 12 August 0 0 0 0 Total 2 4 3 9

Archery

Main article: Archery at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Three Danish individual quota places as well as a team quota place were secured at the 2011 World Archery Championships on 6 June 2011, as the Danish team, consisting of Carina Christiansen, Maja Jager and Louise Laursen, finished 8th in the women's recurve event.^[2] The same three archers were selected for participation by the NOC on 14 May 2012.^[3]

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Carina Christiansen	Women's individual	663	7	Barnard (AUS) (58) W 7–3	Le C-y (TPE) (39) W 6–4	Avitia (MEX) (10) L 2–6	did not advance
Maja Jager		642	35	Richter (GER) (30) L 5–6	Did not advance
Louise Laursen		641	36	Beaudet (CAN) (29) W 7–3	Lorig (USA) (4) L 4–6	Did not advance
Carina Christiansen Maja Jager Louise Laursen	Women's team	1946	8	—		India (IND) (9) W 211–210	South Korea (KOR) (1) L 195–206	Did not advance

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Danish athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event at the 'A' Standard, and 1 at the 'B' Standard):^[4][5]

Key

• Note – Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
• Q = Qualified for the next round
• q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
• NR = National record
• N/A = Round not applicable for the event
• Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

Jesper Faurschou in men's marathon

Men

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Andreas Bube	800 m	1:46.40	6	Did not advance
Jesper Faurschou	Marathon	—				2:18:44	41

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Kim Christensen	Shot put	19.13	28	Did not advance

Women

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Sara Slott Petersen	400 m hurdles	56.01	6 q	56.21	6	did not advance
Jessica Draskau	Marathon	—				2:31:43	40

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Caroline Bonde Holm	Pole vault	NM	—	Did not advance

Badminton

Main article: Badminton at the 2012 Summer Olympics

The BWF World Ranking of 1 May 2012 was used for the qualifying for the badminton tournament. This gave Denmark the following quota places: 2 in men's singles, 1 in men's doubles, 1 in women's singles, 1 in women's doubles and 2 in mixed doubles.^[6] Nine players were selected on 14 May 2012.^[3]

Men

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Elimination	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Peter Gade	Singles	Martins (POR) W 21–14, 21–8	—		1 Q	Son W-h (KOR) W 21–9, 21–16	Chen L (CHN) L 16–21, 13–21	Did not advance
Jan Østergaard Jørgensen		Zilberman (ISR) W 21–13, 21–12	Wong (SIN) W 21–17, 21–14	—	1 Q	Lee H-i (KOR) L 17–21, 13–21	did not advance
Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen	Doubles	James / Viljoen (RSA) W 21–6, 21–12	Ivanov / Sozonov (RUS) W 16–21, 21–19, 21–14	Chai B / Guo Zd (CHN) W 21–14, 21–19	1 Q	—	Fang C-m / Lee S-m (TPE) W 21–16, 21–18	Jung J-s / Lee Y-d (KOR) W 17–21, 21–18, 22–20	Cai Y / Fu H (CHN) L 16–21, 15–21

Women

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Elimination	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Tine Baun	Singles	Augustyn (POL) W 21–11, 21–6	Prokopenko (RUS) W 19–21, 21–15, 21–16	—	1 Q	Sato (JPN) (12) W 14–15ret	Nehwal (IND) L 15–21, 20–22	Did not advance
Kamilla Rytter Juhl Christinna Pedersen	Doubles	Maeda / Suetsuna (JPN) L 21–18, 14–21, 17–21	Poon L Y / Tse Y S (HKG) W 21–13, 14–21, 21–18	Tian Q / Zhao Yl (CHN) W 22–20, 21–12	1 Q	—	Fujii / Kakiiwa (JPN) L 20–22, 10–21	Did not advance

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Thomas Laybourn Kamilla Rytter Juhl	Doubles	Diju / Gutta (IND) W 21–12, 21–16	Lee Y-d / Ha J-e (KOR) W 21–15, 21–11	Ahmad / Natsir (INA) L 22–24, 16–21	2 Q	Zhang N / Zhao Yl (CHN) L 13–21, 17–21	Did not advance
Joachim Fischer Nielsen Christinna Pedersen		Ng / Gao (CAN) W 21–12, 21–11	Mateusiak / Zięba (POL) W 21–9, 14–21, 21–17	Ikeda / Shiota (JPN) W 21–11, 21–10	1 Q	Prapakamol / Thungthongkam (THA) W 21–15, 21–13	Zhang N / Zhao Yl (CHN) L 21–17, 17–21, 19–21	Ahmad / Natsir (INA) W 21–12, 21–12

Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Denmark qualified in the following event with one qualifier.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Dennis Ceylan	Bantamweight	Nevin (IRL) L 6–21	Did not advance

Canoeing

Main article: Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Sprint

Denmark has qualified boats for the following events in the sprint discipline of the canoeing sport. No Danish canoeists competed in the slalom discipline.

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Kasper Bleibach	Men's K-1 200 m	36.610	3 Q	36.667	5 FB	37.802	9
René Holten Poulsen	Men's K-1 1000 m	3:30.284	1 Q	3:30.247	3 FA	3:29.483	4
Kim Wraae Knudsen Emil Stær Simensen	Men's K-2 1000 m	3:17.020	5 Q	3:15.580	4 FB	3:12.820	9
Kasper Bleibach Kim Wraae Knudsen René Holten Poulsen Emil Stær Simensen	Men's K-4 1000 m	3:05.134	3 Q	2:56.003	6 FA	2:56.542	5
Henriette Engel Hansen	Women's K-1 200 m	42.866	4 Q	42.821	7	did not advance
	Women's K-1 500 m	1:52.650	2 Q	1:51.929	2 FA	1:54.110	7

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Denmark has qualified cyclists in all 4 disciplines in the cycling sport.

Road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Lars Bak	Men's road race	5:46:37	71
	Men's time trial	54:33.21	14
Matti Breschel	Men's road race	5:46:37	42
Jakob Fuglsang	Men's road race	5:46:05	12
	Men's time trial	54:34.49	15
Nicki Sørensen	Men's road race	5:46:37	57

Track

Pursuit

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Opponent Results	Rank	Opponent Results	Rank
Lasse Norman Hansen* Michael Mørkøv Mathias Møller Nielsen** Rasmus Quaade Casper von Folsach	Men's team pursuit	3:58.298	4 Q	Great Britain (GBR) 3:57.396	5	Spain (ESP) 4:02.671	5

Omnium

Athlete	Event	Flying lap		Points race		Elimination race	Individual pursuit		Scratch race	Time trial		Total points	Rank
		Time	Rank	Points	Rank	Rank	Time	Rank	Rank	Time	Rank
Lasse Norman Hansen	Men's omnium	13.236	4	59	2	12	4:20.674	1	6	1:02.314	2	27

Mountain biking

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Annika Langvad	Women's cross-country	DNS

Annika Langvad has withdrawn from the Olympics due to broken ribs.^[7]

BMX

Athlete	Event	Seeding		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Result	Rank
Morten Therkildsen	Men's BMX	39.378	25	20	5	Did not advance

Equestrian

Main article: Equestrian at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Dressage

Denmark has qualified one team and three individual quota places to the dressage discipline in the Equestrian sport after finishing in sixth place at the 2011 European Dressage Championship.^[8] No Danish riders compete in the two other disciplines.

Athlete	Horse	Event	Grand Prix		Grand Prix Special		Grand Prix Freestyle		Overall
			Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Technical	Artistic	Score	Rank
Anna Kasprzak	Donnperignon	Individual	75.289	12 Q	73.952	16 Q	74.179	78.714	76.446	18
Lisbeth Seierskilde	Raneur		69.863	32	Did not advance
Anne Van Olst	Clearwater		71.322	23 Q	72.016	21	Did not advance
Nathalie Zu Sayn-Wittgenstein	Digby		74.954	13 Q	75.857	9 Q	76.321	81.857	79.018	12
Anna Kasprzak Anne Van Olst Nathalie Zu Sayn-Wittgenstein	See above	Team	73.845	4 Q	73.846	4 Q	—		73.846	4

Gymnastics

Main article: Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Trampoline

Denmark qualified one male athlete in trampolining. No Danish gymnasts competed in the other two disciplines of the gymnastics sport.

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Peter Jensen	Men's	104.695	10	Did not advance

Handball

Main article: Handball at the 2012 Summer Olympics

The men's team qualified for the Olympics by winning the 2012 European Men's Handball Championship. The women's team qualified through the World Qualification Tournament. This was the first ever Olympics where both the Danish men's and women's handball teams were present. The men's squad was announced on 29 May 2012^[9] with the reserve determined one month later,^[10] and the women's squad was announced on 2 July 2012.^[11]

Men's tournament

Main article: Handball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Team roster

The following is the Denmark roster in the men's handball tournament of the 2012 Summer Olympics.^[12]

Head coaches: Ulrik Wilbek

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 1 GK Niklas Landin Jacobsen (1988-12-19)19 December 1988 (aged 23) 2.00 m Bjerringbro-Silkeborg 2 CB Thomas Mogensen (1983-01-30)30 January 1983 (aged 29) 1.87 m Flensburg-Handewitt 4 LB Lasse Boesen (1979-09-18)18 September 1979 (aged 32) 1.92 m KIF Kolding 8 CB Rasmus Lauge Schmidt (1991-06-20)20 June 1991 (aged 21) 1.94 m Bjerringbro-Silkeborg 10 LB Nikolaj Markussen (1988-08-01)1 August 1988 (aged 23) 2.12 m Atlético Madrid 11 LW Anders Eggert Jensen (1982-05-14)14 May 1982 (aged 30) 1.79 m Flensburg-Handewitt 13 CB Bo Spellerberg (1979-07-24)24 July 1979 (aged 33) 1.92 m KIF Kolding 14 P Michael V. Knudsen (1978-09-04)4 September 1978 (aged 33) 1.92 m Flensburg-Handewitt 17 RW Lasse Svan Hansen (1983-08-31)31 August 1983 (aged 28) 1.87 m Flensburg-Handewitt 18 RW Hans Lindberg (1981-08-01)1 August 1981 (aged 30) 1.88 m HSV Hamburg 19 P Rene Toft Hansen (1984-11-01)1 November 1984 (aged 27) 2.00 m AG København 20 GK Marcus Cleverly (1981-06-15)15 June 1981 (aged 31) 1.88 m Vive Targi Kielce 22 RB Kasper Søndergaard Sarup (1981-06-09)9 June 1981 (aged 31) 1.95 m Skjern Håndbold 24 LB Mikkel Hansen (1987-10-22)22 October 1987 (aged 24) 1.96 m AG København 26 LB Kasper Nielsen (1975-06-09)9 June 1975 (aged 37) 1.92 m Bjerringbro-Silkeborg

Group play

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Croatia	5	5	0	0	150	109	+41	10	Quarter-finals
Denmark	5	4	0	1	124	129	−5	8
Spain	5	3	0	2	140	126	+14	6
Hungary	5	2	0	3	114	128	−14	4
Serbia	5	1	0	4	120	131	−11	2
South Korea	5	0	0	5	115	140	−25	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

29 July 2012 21:15	Hungary	25 – 27	Denmark	Copper Box, London Attendance: 5,000[13] Referees: Lazaar, Reveret (FRA)
	Császár 8	(10–13)	Eggert 9
	1× 7×	Report	3× 5×

31 July 2012 19:30	Denmark	24 – 23	Spain	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,368[14] Referees: Krstić, Ljubić (SLO)
	Hansen 8	(13–12)	three players 4
	4× 6×	Report	4× 1×

2 August 2012 19:30	Serbia	25 – 26	Denmark	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,504[15] Referees: Geipel, Helbig (GER)
	Vujin 7	(11–13)	Hansen 7
	3× 7×	Report	2× 3×

4 August 2012 16:15	Croatia	32 – 21	Denmark	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,800[16] Referees: Lazaar, Reveret (FRA)
	three players 5	(14–9)	Eggert Jensen, Lindberg 5
	3× 2×	Report	3× 3×

6 August 2012 14:30	Denmark	26 – 24	South Korea	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,546[17] Referees: Al-Nuaimi, Omar (UAE)
	Eggert Jensen, Knudsen 6	(13–14)	Lee Jae-woo, Eom Hyo-won 6
	4× 2×	Report	2× 1×

Quarter-final

8 August 2012 18:00	Sweden	24 – 22	Denmark	Basketball Arena, London Attendance: 9,494[18] Referees: Nachevski, Nikolov (MKD)
	Doder 6	(11–9)	Lindberg 6
	4× 5×	Report	4× 2×

Women's tournament

Main article: Handball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

Team roster

The following is the Denmark roster in the women's handball tournament of the 2012 Summer Olympics.^[19]

Head coaches: Jan Pytlick

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 2 P Mette Melgaard (1980-06-03)3 June 1980 (aged 32) 1.70 m Randers HK 4 P Susan Thorsgaard (1988-10-13)13 October 1988 (aged 23) 1.88 m FC Midtjylland 9 RB Camilla Dalby (1988-05-15)15 May 1988 (aged 24) 1.82 m Randers HK 10 CB Christina Krogshede (1981-11-04)4 November 1981 (aged 30) 1.72 m Frederiksberg IF 12 GK Karin Mortensen (1977-09-26)26 September 1977 (aged 34) 1.81 m Frederiksberg IF 13 P Marianne Bonde (1984-06-25)25 June 1984 (aged 28) 1.84 m Frederiksberg IF 15 LB Pernille Larsen (1977-09-26)26 September 1977 (aged 34) 1.84 m Viborg HK 16 GK Christina Pedersen (1982-12-15)15 December 1982 (aged 29) 1.80 m Frederiksberg IF 19 RB Line Jørgensen (1989-12-31)31 December 1989 (aged 22) 1.83 m FC Midtjylland 22 LB Trine Troelsen (1985-05-02)2 May 1985 (aged 27) 1.72 m FC Midtjylland 23 LW Ann Grete Nørgaard (1983-09-15)15 September 1983 (aged 28) 1.63 m Team Tvis Holstebro 24 CB Berit Kristensen (1983-08-02)2 August 1983 (aged 28) 1.72 m Randers HK 25 LB Rikke Skov (1980-09-07)7 September 1980 (aged 31) 1.81 m Viborg HK 27 RB Louise Burgaard (1992-10-17)17 October 1992 (aged 19) 1.76 m Team Tvis Holstebro

Group play

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
France	5	4	1	0	125	103	+22	9	Quarter-finals
South Korea	5	3	1	1	136	130	+6	7
Spain	5	3	1	1	119	114	+5	7
Norway	5	2	1	2	118	120	−2	5
Denmark	5	1	0	4	113	121	−8	2
Sweden	5	0	0	5	108	131	−23	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

28 July 2012 16:15	Denmark	21 – 18	Sweden	Copper Box, London Attendance: 3,942[20] Referees: Nikolić, Stojković (SRB)
	Skov 6	(8–10)	Gulldén 5
	3× 4×	Report	4× 3×

30 July 2012 11:15	South Korea	25 – 24	Denmark	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,393[21] Referees: Duţă, Florescu (ROU)
	Jo Hyo-bi 5	(11–10)	Larsen 7
	3× 1×	Report	3× 2×

1 August 2012 19:30	Spain	24 – 21	Denmark	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,488[22] Referees: Geipel, Helbig (GER)
	Mangué 7	(14–9)	Nørgaard 7
	3× 3× 1×	Report	3× 1×

3 August 2012 21:15	Denmark	23 – 24	Norway	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,720[23] Referees: Horáček, Novotný (CZE)
	Nørgaard 9	(11–12)	Løke 6
	3× 2×	Report	3×

5 August 2012 21:15	Denmark	24 – 30	France	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,616[24] Referees: Duţă, Florescu (ROU)
	Nørgaard 10	(10–17)	Nijtam 6
	3× 2×	Report	2× 1×

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Denmark has qualified boats for the following events

Five-time Olympian Eskild Ebbesen satisfied with his bronze medal in men's lightweight four.

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Henrik Stephansen	Single sculls	6:46.32	3 QF	Bye		6:55.95	4 SC/D	7:29.76	1 FC	7:19.62	13
Rasmus Quist Hansen Mads Rasmussen	Lightweight double sculls	6:33.11	1 SA/B	Bye		—		6:33.25	1 FA	6:37.17
Jacob Barsøe Eskild Ebbesen Morten Jørgensen Kasper Winther Jørgensen	Lightweight four	5:55.64	3 SA/B	Bye		—		6:03.53	1 FA	6:03.16

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Fie Udby Erichsen	Single sculls	7:29.37	2 QF	Bye		7:38.93	1 SA/B	7:44.33	1 FA	7:57.72
Anne Lolk Juliane Elander Rasmussen	Lightweight double sculls	6:59.94	2 SA/B	Bye		—		7:10.93	2 FA	7:15.53	4

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Sailing

Main article: Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Each NOC could only enter one boat at each event, and Denmark qualified to enter a boat in eight out of the ten events only missing Women's RS-X and Men's 470. Which means that Danish sailors competed in all eight Olympic boat types.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race											Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M
Sebastian Fleischer	RS:X	18	28	24	23	29	29	29	15	28	26	EL	220	29
Thorbjørn Schierup	Laser	36	16	24	8	23	16	5	23	24	18	EL	157	19
Jonas Høgh-Christensen	Finn	1	1	2	7	1	2	8	4	5	3	20	46
Michael Hestbæk Claus Olesen	Star	12	11	13	14	13	7	6	3	14	10	EL	89	11

Women

Athlete	Event	Race											Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M
Anne-Marie Rindom	Laser Radial	17	19	8	22	12	7	27	23	11	11	EL	130	13
Henriette Koch Lene Sommer	470	5	12	16	10	14	16	15	10	9	15	EL	106	16

Match racing

Athlete	Event	Round Robin											Rank	Knockouts			Rank
		GBR	USA	RUS	NZL	NED	SWE	FRA	FIN	POR	AUS	ESP		Q-final	S-final	Final
Susanne Boidin Tina Gramkov Lotte Meldgaard	Elliott 6m	L	L	L	L	W	W	L	L	W	L	L	10	Did not advance

The Danish boat originally lost their eleventh round robin race by seven seconds, but following a protest the result was annulled and the race resailed.

Open

Athlete	Event	Race																Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	M
Peter Lang Allan Nørregaard	49er	2	4	14	6	16	15	5	7	13	6	16	4	4	3	9	6	114

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Denmark have qualified for five places is shooting events;^[25] athletes in brackets secured the quota place.

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Anders Golding	Skeet	122	2 Q	146
Torben Grimmel	50 m rifle prone	592	24	Did not advance
Jesper Hansen	Skeet	113	26	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Stine Andersen	10 m air rifle	393	30	Did not advance
Stine Nielsen	50 m rifle 3 positions	582	11	Did not advance
	10 m air rifle	397	9	Did not advance

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Danish swimmers achieved qualifying standards in the following events before the games started (up to a maximum of two swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially one at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)):^[26][27] Pál Joensen competed under the Danish flag, although he originally played for the Faroe Islands.

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Mads Glæsner	200 m freestyle	DNS		Did not advance
	400 m freestyle[28]	3:48.27	12	—		Did not advance
Mathias Gydesen	100 m backstroke	55.31	30	Did not advance
Pál Joensen	400 m freestyle[28]	3:47.36	10	—		Did not advance
	1500 m freestyle	15:18.42	17	—		Did not advance
Mads Glæsner Pál Joensen Anders Lie Daniel Skaaning	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	7:15.04	13	—		Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Pernille Blume	50 m freestyle	25.54	=24	Did not advance
	100 m freestyle[29]	55.04	19	Did not advance
	200 m freestyle	2:00.91	24	Did not advance
Lotte Friis	400 m freestyle	4:04.22	5 Q	—		4:03.98	4
	800 m freestyle	8:21.89	2 Q	—		8:23.86	5
Mie Nielsen	100 m backstroke	1:00.38	17	Did not advance
	200 m backstroke	2:13.89	28	did not advance
Jeanette Ottesen	50 m freestyle	24.85	=7 Q	24.99	12	Did not advance
	100 m freestyle[29]	53.51	3 Q	53.77	=5 Q	53.75	7
	100 m butterfly	57.64	4 Q	57.25	3 Q	57.35	6
Rikke Møller Pedersen	100 m breaststroke	1:07.23	9 Q	1:06.82	6 Q	1:07.55	8
	200 m breaststroke	2:22.69	2 Q	2:22.23	2 Q	2:21.65	4
Pernille Blume Lotte Friis Mie Nielsen Jeanette Ottesen	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:38.09	6 Q	—		3:37.45	6
Pernille Blume Mie Nielsen Jeanette Ottesen Rikke Møller Pedersen	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:58.35	3 Q	—		3:57.76	7

Table tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Three Danish athletes qualified for the table tennis event. In the men's singles, Michael Maze qualified by virtue of his ranking,^[30] while Allan Bentsen qualified through the final qualification tournament. Mie Skov qualified for the women's singles event after her performance at the European qualification tournament.

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Allan Bentsen	Men's singles	Bye	Zwickl (HUN) L 1–4	Did not advance
Michael Maze		Bye			Kreanga (GRE) W 4–1	Mizutani (JPN) W 4–0	Ovtcharov (GER) L 3–4	Did not advance
Mie Skov	Women's singles	Bye	El-Dawlatly (EGY) W 4–0	Partyka (POL) L 3–4	Did not advance

Tennis

Main article: Tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Caroline Wozniacki	Women's singles	Keothavong (GBR) W 4–6, 6–3, 6–2	Wickmayer (BEL) W 6–4, 3–6, 6–3	Hantuchová (SVK) W 6–4, 6–2	S. Williams (USA) L 0–6, 3–6	Did not advance

Triathlon

Main article: Triathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Denmark has qualified the following athletes.

Athlete	Event	Swim (1.5 km)	Trans 1	Bike (40 km)	Trans 2	Run (10 km)	Total Time	Rank
Helle Frederiksen	Women's	19:31	0:45	1:07:11	0:33	35:10	2:03:10	27
Line Jensen		18:21	0:43	1:06:34	0:32	36:37	2:02:47	23

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Denmark has qualified in the following events.

Key

• VT – Victory by Fall.
• PP – Decision by Points – the loser with technical points.
• PO – Decision by Points – the loser without technical points.

Men's Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Håkan Nyblom	−55 kg	Bye	Fajari (MAR) W 3–0 PO	Hasegawa (JPN) W 3–0 PO	Sourian (IRI) L 0–3 PO	Bye		Módos (HUN) L 1–3 PP	5
Mark Madsen	−74 kg	Bye	Vlasov (RUS) L 1–3 PP	Did not advance		Bye	Guénot (FRA) W 3–1 PP	Kazakevič (LTU) L 0–3 PO	5