Events in the year 2021 in

Denmark Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...

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Monarch A monarch () is a head of stateWebster's II New College Dictionary. "Monarch". Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest ...

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Margrethe II Margrethe II (; Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid, born 16 April 1940) is a member of the Danish royal family who reigned as Queen of Denmark from 14 January 1972 until her abdication on 14 January 2024. Having reigned for exactly ...

Prime Minister A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ...

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Mette Frederiksen Mette Frederiksen (; born 19 November 1977) is a Danish politician who has been the Prime Minister of Denmark, prime minister of Denmark since June 2019, and Social Democrats (Denmark)#Leaders of the Social Democrats, leader of the Social Democr ...

Events

Ongoing —

COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark On 31 December 2019, China announced the discovery of a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan. The first Danish case was reported on 27 February, and prime minister Mette Frederiksen announced lockdown measures on 11 March effective from 13 M ...

January

*5 January 2021 – Following a press conference by Prime Minister

, the restrictions due to coronavirus are tightened. *6 January – The Danish Meteorological Institute (, DMI) releases its annual report for the year 2020. It makes national headlines after it is revealed that there were no days in which the temperature remained under 0 degrees Celsius for the entire day for the first time since records began.

April

* 13 April – The Danish state strips the renewal of temporary residency permits to about 189 Syrian refugees, claiming that it is "now safe to return to

Syria Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to Syria–Turkey border, the north, Iraq to Iraq–Syria border, t ...

." * 15 April Mads Nissen wins the 2021 World Press Photo of the Year Award.

Sports

Badminton

* 31 January

Viktor Axelsen Viktor Axelsen (born 4 January 1994) is a Danish badminton player. He is a two-time Badminton at the Summer Olympics, Olympic Champion, two-time BWF World Championships, World Champion, and four-time European Badminton Championships, European Cha ...

wins gold in Men's Single at the 2020 BWF World Tour Finals by defeating

Anders Antonsen Anders Antonsen (born 27 April 1997) is a Danish badminton player. He is a three-time World Championships medalist, two-time European Champion, and he has been ranked as high as No. 2 in the men’s singles discipline of BWF World Ranking. He ...

in the final. * 20 February Denmark wins the

2021 European Mixed Team Badminton Championships The 2021 European Mixed Team Badminton Championships is held in Vantaa, Finland, between 16 and 20 February 2021 and organised by Badminton Europe and Badminton Finland. Milton Keynes in England was the original host for the championships, but wi ...

by defeating France 30 in the final. * 27 March

wins gold in Men's Single and

Kim Astrup Kim Astrup Sørensen (born 6 March 1992) is a Danish badminton player. He was the men's doubles gold medalists at the 2018 European Championships and the 2023 European Games with his partner Anders Skaarup Rasmussen. He also won the bronze medal ...

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Anders Skaarup Rasmussen Anders Skaarup Rasmussen (born 15 February 1989) is a Danish badminton player. Rasmussen won the men's doubles title at the 2018 European Championships and at the 2023 European Games partnered with Kim Astrup. He also won the bronze medal at th ...

win gold in Men's Double at Swiss Open. * 1924October

2021 Denmark Open The 2021 Denmark Open (officially known as the Victor Denmark Open 2021 for sponsorship reasons) was a badminton tournament which took place at the Odense Sports Park in Odense, Denmark, from 19 to 24 October 2021 and had a total prize of US$850, ...

takes place in Odense. **

wins gold in men's single * 5 December

wins gold in Men's Single at the

2021 BWF World Tour Finals The 2021 BWF World Tour Finals (officially known as the HSBC BWF World Tour Finals 2021 for sponsorship reasons) was the final tournament of the 2021 BWF World Tour. It was held from 1 to 5 December 2021 in Bali, Indonesia and had a total prize o ...

. * 1219 December Denmark wins two bronze medals at the

2021 BWF World Championships The 2021 BWF World Championships (officially known as the TotalEnergies BWF World Championships 2021 for sponsorship reasons) was a badminton tournament which took place from 12 to 19 December 2021 at Palacio de los Deportes Carolina Marín in ...

Canoe and katak

* 36 June Denmark wins twogold medals and one bronze medal at the

2021 Canoe Sprint European Championships The 2021 Canoe Sprint European Championships (31st) was held from 3 to 6 June 2021 in Poznań, Poland. Canoe sprint Medal table Men Women Paracanoe Medal table Medal events Non-Paralympic classes Notes References External linksOffic ...

. * 1619 September The

2021 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships The 2021 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held from 16 to 19 September 2021 in Copenhagen, Denmark. In a break with convention, these championships were held in an Olympic year as the COVID-19 pandemic forced a year-long postponement ...

are held in Copenhagen. Denmark wins one gold medal, one silver medal and three bronze medals. * 30 September 3 October Denmark wins three gold medals, two silver medalsand one bronze medal at the

2021 ICF Canoe Marathon World Championships The 2021 ICF Canoe Marathon World Championships was held from 30 September to 3 October 2021 in Pitești, Romania. Medalists Short Race Medalists Under-23 Medalists Junior Medalists Medal table References {{World championships in 2021 ...

Cycling

* 23 February

Jonas Vingegaard Jonas Vingegaard Hansen (; ; born 10 December 1996) is a Danish professional road bicycle racing, road racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . Described as one of the best Climbing specialist, climbers of his generation, his rivalry with Tad ...

wins

Stage 5 The Walnut Valley Festival is an acoustic music festival held annually in the small city of Winfield, Kansas, United States. The main genre of music is bluegrass, but a wide variety of other acoustic styles are represented. The festival is held ...

UAE Tour The UAE Tour () are road cycling stage races in the United Arab Emirates. A men's event was first held in 2019 as part of the UCI World Tour. It was created as a result of the merging of the Abu Dhabi Tour and the Dubai Tour. A women's event was ...

. * 28 February Mads Pedersen wins

Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne is an annual single-day road bicycle racing, road cycling race in Belgium. It is held one day after Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, on the last Sunday of February or the first of March, and completes the opening weekend of the Be ...

. * 14 March

Magnus Cort Magnus Cort Nielsen (born 16 January 1993) is a Danish professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . Career Orica–GreenEDGE (2015–17) In June 2014, World Tour team signed Cort for three years, starting from the 2 ...

wins Stage 8 of Paris–Nice. * 15 March

Mads Würtz Schmidt Mads Würtz Schmidt (born 31 March 1994) is a Danish racing cyclist, who rides for gravel team PAS Racing. He rode at the 2013 UCI Road World Championships. In May 2018, he was named in the startlist for the 2018 Giro d'Italia. In July 2019, he ...

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Stage 6 Stage6 was a video sharing website owned and operated by DivX, Inc., where users could upload, share, and view video clips. Stage6 was different from other video services in that it streamed high quality video clips that were user-encoded wit ...

Tirreno–Adriatico Tirreno–Adriatico, nicknamed the "Race of the Two Seas", is an elite road bicycle racing, road cycling stage race in Italy, run between the Tyrrhenian Sea, Tyrrhenian and Adriatic Sea, Adriatic coasts. Traditionally held in the early part of th ...

. * 22 March

Andreas Kron Andreas Lorentz Kron (born 1 June 1998) is a Danish professional Bicycle racing, racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProSeries, UCI ProTeam . Major results ;2015 : 7th Overall Keizer der Juniores ;2016 : 1st Overall Grand Prix Généra ...

wins Stage1 of

Volta a Catalunya The Volta a Catalunya (; Tour of Catalonia, ) is a road bicycle race held annually in Catalonia, Spain. It is one of three World Tour stage races in Spain, together with the Vuelta a España and the Tour of the Basque Country. The race has had ...

. * 26 March

Kasper Asgreen Kasper Asgreen (born 8 February 1995) is a Danish cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Asgreen won the 2021 Tour of Flanders (men's race), 2021 Tour of Flanders by defeating Mathieu van der Poel in a sprint finish. Early life Asgreen ...

wins 2021 E3 Saxo Bank Classic. * 27 March

wins

2021 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali The 2021 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali was a road cycling stage race that took place between 23 and 27 March 2021 in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna and in San Marino. It was the 36th edition of the Settimana Internazionale d ...

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Mikkel Frølich Honoré Mikkel Frølich Honoré (born 21 January 1997) is a Danish cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He has most notably won stage five of the 2021 Tour of the Basque Country. Major results ;2014 : 1st Overall Sint-Martinusprijs Kontich ...

finishes second in the same race. * 4 April

wins

Tour of Flanders The Tour of Flanders () may refer to the following cycle races: * Tour of Flanders (men's race) The Tour of Flanders (), also known as ''De Ronde'' (''"The Tour"''), is an annual road bicycle racing, road cycling race held in Belgium every spri ...

. * 11 June

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of the

2021 Tour de Suisse The 2021 Tour de Suisse was a road cycling stage race that took place between 6 and 13 June 2021 in Switzerland. It was the 84th edition of the Tour de Suisse and the 20th event of the 2021 UCI World Tour. Teams All nineteen UCI WorldTeams ar ...

. * 15 September

Michael Valgren Michael Valgren Hundahl (né Andersen; born 7 February 1992) is a Danish professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . In 2018, Valgren won 2018 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and the 2018 Amstel Gold Rac ...

wins

Giro di Toscana The Giro di Toscana is a road bicycle race held annually in Tuscany, Italy. From 2005 to 2014, the race has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. The race was not held in 2015. On 4 April 2016 it was announced that the race will ...

. * 24 October

Lasse Norman Hansen Lasse Norman Leth; né Norman Hansen; (born 11 February 1992) is a Danish professional road and track racing cyclist, who currently rides for Danish club team Team CO:PLAY–Giant Store. During his track cycling career, he has won five medals (i ...

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Michael Mørkøv Michael Mørkøv Christensen (; born 30 April 1985) is a Danish former Cycle sport, racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2005 to 2024. He is the brother of racing cyclists Jacob and Jesper Mørkøv. Career Born in Kokkedal, Mørk� ...

win the gold in Men's omnium at the

2021 UCI Track Cycling World Championships The 2021 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were held from 20 to 24 October 2021 at the Velodrome Couvert Regional Jean-Stablinski in Roubaix, France. The championships were originally scheduled to be held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. The elimi ...

Equestrian sports

* 712 September Denmark wins a silver medal and two bronze medals at the

2021 European Dressage Championships The 2021 FEI European Dressage Championships was held in Hagen, Germany, from 7 to 12 September 2021. Budapest in Hungary was supposed to organise the European Championships but withdrew after the postponement of the 2020 Olympic Games to 2021. Fi ...

Golf

* 29 August

Rasmus Højgaard Rasmus Højgaard (born 12 March 2001) is a Danish professional golfer who won his first European Tour event at the 2019 AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open, becoming the third youngest player to win on the European Tour. Amateur career Højgaard first ...

wins

Omega European Masters The Omega European Masters is the Switzerland, Swiss stop on professional men's golf's European Tour, and in 2009 it became the first event in Europe to be co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour. Founded as the Swiss Open in 1923, the tournament was pr ...

on the

2021 European Tour The 2021 European Tour was the 50th season of the European Tour, the main professional golf tour in Europe since its inaugural season in 1972. Changes for 2021 Following a heavily disrupted 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a ...

. * 5 September

Nicolai Højgaard Nicolai Højgaard (born 12 March 2001) is a Danish professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour and European Tour. In 2021, he and his twin brother, Rasmus, became the first brothers to win in back-to-back weeks on the European Tour. H ...

wins Italian Open on the

., * 24 October

Jeff Winther Jeff Winther (born 30 March 1988) is a Danish professional golfer. He joined the European Tour in 2016 and won the 2021 Mallorca Golf Open. Career Winther turned professional in 2012 and won on his fifth appearance as a professional, playing in ...

win

Mallorca Golf Open The Mallorca Golf Open was a professional golf tournament held from 21–24 October 2021 at Golf Santa Ponsa in Mallorca, Spain. Intended as a one-off event, the tournament was the first European Tour played in Mallorca since the Iberdrola Open ...

on the

., * 14 November

Joachim B. Hansen Joachim Brandt Hansen (born 18 August 1990) is a Danish professional golfer who currently plays on the European Tour. Early life and amateur career Hansen was born in Hillerød. He took up golf at the age of 12 enjoyed a successful amateur career ...

wins the

Dubai Championship The Aviv Dubai Championship was a professional golf tournament held on the Fire course at the Jumeirah Golf Estates, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the ...

on the

Swimming

* 1619 September Copenhagen hosts the

. Denmark wins one gold medal, one silver medal and three bronze medals.

Other

* 12 December Denmark wins one gold medal and one silver medal at the

2021 European Cross Country Championships The 2021 European Cross Country Championships was the 27th edition of the cross country running competition for European athletes. It was held on 12 December 2021 in Dublin, Ireland. Medal summary Medal table References {{European champio ...

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

* 19 April Birgitte Reimer, film actress (born 1926)

AprilJune

* 30 April Flemming Hansen, politician (born 1939) * 4 May Kirsten Stallknecht, president of the

International Council of Nurses The International Council of Nurses (ICN) is a federation of more than 130 national nurses associations. It was founded in 1899 and was the first international organization for :Health care occupations, health care professionals. It is headqua ...

(born 1937) * 10 May

Johannes Møllehave Johannes Volf Møllehave (4 January 1937 – 10 May 2021) was a Danish Lutheran priest, author, and lecturer. Education and career Møllehave was born in Frederiksberg. He graduated in theology in 1963. His wide range of interests extended to ...

, priest and writer (born 1937) * 25 May Ib Georg Jensen, ceramist, designer and author (born

1927 Events January * January 1 – The British Broadcasting ''Company'' becomes the BBC, British Broadcasting ''Corporation'', when its Royal Charter of incorporation takes effect. John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, John Reith becomes the first ...

) * 27 May

Poul Schlüter Poul Holmskov Schlüter (; 3 April 1929 – 27 May 2021) was a Danish politician who served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 1982 to 1993. He was the first (and to date, only) member of the Conservative People's Party to become Prime Minister, ...

, politician and former prime minister (born 1929) * 15 June

Lily Weiding Lily Weiding (22 October 1924 – 15 June 2021) was a Danish actress. She appeared in more than 30 films and television shows from 1942 to 2008. She starred in the film ''Be Dear to Me'', which was entered into the 7th Berlin International Film ...

, actor (born 1924)

JulySeptember

* 20 July –

Vita Andersen Vita Andersen (29 October 1942 – 20 July 2021) was a Danish poet, novelist, playwright and children's writer. Career Andersen made her literary debut in 1977 with the poetry collection ', which is among the most sold poetry collections in Den ...

, poet, novelist, playwright and children's writer (born 1942).

OctoberDecember

* 16 October

Anders Bodelsen Anders Bodelsen (11 February 1937 – 17 October 2021) was a Danish writer primarily associated with the 1960 new-realism wave in Danish literature, along with Christian Kampmann and Henrik Stangerup. Bodelsen preferred the social-realistic sty ...

m author (born

1836 Events January–March * January 1 — Hill Street Academy is named Colombo Academy and acquired by the Government, establishing the first public school in Sri Lanka. * January 1 – Queen Maria II of Portugal marries Prince Ferdinand ...

) * 11 November

Per Aage Brandt Per Aage Brandt (; 26 April 1944 – 11 November 2021) was a Danish writer, poet, linguist and musician, born in Buenos Aires. He got his Master of Arts in Romance Philology from the University of Copenhagen (1971) & held a Doctorate of Semiotic ...

, writer, poet, linguist and musician (born 1944)

References

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