Denmark at the 1896 Summer Olympics

The following competitors won medals at the games. In the discipline sections below, the medalists' names are bolded.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Viggo Jensen	Weightlifting	Men's two hand lift	April 7
Silver	Holger Nielsen	Shooting	Men's 30 m free pistol	April 11
Silver	Viggo Jensen	Weightlifting	Men's one hand lift	April 7
Bronze	Holger Nielsen	Fencing	Men's sabre	April 9
Bronze	Viggo Jensen	Shooting	Men's 300 m free rifle, three positions	April 12
Bronze	Holger Nielsen	Shooting	Men's 25 m rapid fire pistol	April 11

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Weightlifting	1	1	0	2
Shooting	0	1	2	3
Fencing	0	0	1	1
Total	1	2	3	6

The following competitors won multiple medals at the 1896 Olympic Games.

Name	Medal	Sport	Event
Viggo Jensen	Gold  Silver  Bronze	Weightlifting Shooting	Men's two hand lift Men's one hand lift Men's 300 metre free rifle
Holger Nielsen	Silver  Bronze  Bronze	Shooting Fencing	Men's 30 metre pistol Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol Men's sabre

Denmark's three athletes had little success in the 100 metres or the discus throw. Jensen took fourth place in the shot put competition, the closest to an athletics medal the Danish team came.

Track & road events

Field events

One of Nielsen's two bronzes came in the fencing competition, in which he won half of his four matches.

Athlete	Event	Record		Touches		Rank
		Wins	Losses	For	Against
Holger Nielsen	Sabre	2	2	10	9

Jensen placed fourth of five competitors in the rope climbing contest, not reaching the top of the 14-metre rope. His actual distance climbed is unknown but it was less than 12.5 metres, the distance of the bronze medallist.

Jensen and Nielsen both earned bronze medals in the shooting competitions, with Nielsen also winning a silver medal. Jensen specialized in the rifle events, taking 6th of 42 and 3rd of 20 in the two events. Nielsen did not finish his rifle competition, but performed well in the pistol events, in which he won two medals and took 5th place of 16 in the third event.

Athlete	Event	Final
		Score	Rank
Viggo Jensen	Men's 200 m military rifle	1640	6
Holger Nielsen		DNF
Viggo Jensen	Men's 300 m free rifle	1305
Holger Nielsen	Men's 25 m military pistol	Unknown	5
Holger Nielsen	Men's 25 m rapid fire pistol	Unknown
Holger Nielsen	Men's 30 m pistol	285

Jensen tied Launceston Elliot for weight lifted in the first event, the two handed lift. Prince George of Greece, the judge for the event, determined that Jensen had lifted the 111.5 kilograms in better style than Elliot, awarded the Dane the gold medal. In the second event, the one handed, Jensen's 57 kilograms were not close to Elliot's 71 kilograms and thus Jensen took second place in that event.

Athlete	Event	Weight	Rank
Viggo Jensen	One hand lift	57.0
Viggo Jensen	Two hand lift	111.5

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• Lampros, S.P.; Polites, N.G.; De Coubertin, Pierre; Philemon, P.J.; Anninos, C. (1897). The Olympic Games: BC 776 – AD 1896. Athens: Charles Beck. (Digitally available at [1])
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