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Sweden at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Sweden competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France.

Sweden at the
1968 Winter Olympics
IOC codeSWE
NOCSwedish Olympic Committee
Websitewww.sok.se (in Swedish and English)
in Grenoble
Competitors68 (59 men, 9 women) in 9 sports
Flag bearerBarbro Martinsson (Cross-country skiing)
Medals
Ranked 7th
Gold
3
Silver
2
Bronze
3
Total
8
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)

Medalists

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Medal Name Sport Event
  Gold Toini Gustafsson Cross-country skiing Women's 5 km
  Gold Toini Gustafsson Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km
  Gold Johnny Höglin Speed skating Men's 10 000 m
  Silver Jan Halvarsson
Bjarne Andersson
Gunnar Larsson
Assar Rönnlund		 Cross-country skiing Men's 4 × 10 km relay
  Silver Britt Strandberg
Toini Gustafsson
Barbro Martinsson		 Cross-country skiing Women's 3 x 5 km relay
  Bronze Lars-Göran Arwidson
Tore Eriksson
Olle Petrusson
Holmfrid Olsson		 Biathlon Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
  Bronze Gunnar Larsson Cross-country skiing Men's 15 km
  Bronze Örjan Sandler Speed skating Men's 10 000 m

Alpine skiing

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Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Men
Athlete Event Race 1 Race 2 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Per-Olov Richardsson Downhill 2:09.83 43
Rune Lindström 2:05.69 29
Lars Olsson Giant Slalom 1:48.69 28 DSQ – DSQ –
Bengt-Erik Grahn 1:48.68 27 1:57.78 54 3:46.46 39
Olle Rolén 1:47.52 22 1:50.83 22 3:38.35 20
Rune Lindström 1:46.94 17 1:50.11 17 3:37.05 16
Men's slalom
Athlete Heat 1 Heat 2 Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time 1 Rank Time 2 Rank Total Rank
Per-Olov Richardsson 54.83 2 QF – – 52.46 28 DSQ – DSQ –
Bengt-Erik Grahn 54.28 1 QF – – 49.74 3 DSQ – DSQ –
Olle Rolén 54.15 1 QF – – 51.77 22 DSQ – DSQ –
Rune Lindström 53.85 2 QF – – 51.19 15 50.80 8 1:41.99 11
Women
Athlete Event Race 1 Race 2 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Ingrid Sundberg Giant Slalom 2:08.54 35
Ingrid Sundberg Slalom 46.91 27 52.65 23 1:39.56 21

Biathlon

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Main article: Biathlon at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Men
Event Athlete Time Penalties Adjusted time 1 Rank
20 km Nore Westin 1'21:09.4 7 1'28:09.4 30
Holmfrid Olsson 1'19:01.8 6 1'25:01.8 20
Olle Petrusson 1'18:31.2 6 1'24:31.2 19
Lars-Göran Arwidson 1'18:08.9 6 1'24:08.9 17
1 One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.
Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Athletes Race
Misses 2 Time Rank
Lars-Göran Arwidson
Tore Eriksson
Olle Petrusson
Holmfrid Olsson 		0 2'17:26.3  
2 A penalty loop of 200 metres had to be skied per missed target.

Bobsleigh

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Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Sled Athletes Event Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
SWE-1 Rolf Höglund
Börje Hedblom 		Two-man 1:12.77 19 1:13.17 18 1:12.62 14 1:12.63 12 4:51.19 14
SWE-2 Carl-Erik Eriksson
Eric Wennerberg 		Two-man 1:12.75 17 1:12.69 14 1:12.84 16 1:13.41 17 4:51.69 18
Sled Athletes Event Run 1 Run 2 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
SWE-1 Rolf Höglund
Hans Hallén
Sven Martinsson
Börje Hedblom 		Four-man 1:12.20 16 1:09.90 16 2:22.10 16

Cross-country skiing

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Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Men
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
15 km Assar Rönnlund 49:25.3 11
Bjarne Andersson 48:41.1 6
Jan Halvarsson 48:39.1 5
Gunnar Larsson 48:33.7  
30 km Ingvar Sandström 1'39:47.5 21
Bruno Åvik 1'39:38.1 20
Jan Halvarsson 1'38:23.2 12
Gunnar Larsson 1'37:48.1 8
50 km Assar Rönnlund 2'31:19.3 10
Jan Halvarsson 2'30:05.9 7
Gunnar Larsson 2'29:37.2 6
Melcher Risberg 2'29:37.0 5
Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Athletes Race
Time Rank
Jan Halvarsson
Bjarne Andersson
Gunnar Larsson
Assar Rönnlund 		2'10:13.2  
Women
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
5 km Barbro Tano 17:35.8 18
Britt Strandberg 17:25.8 15
Barbro Martinsson 16:52.9 4
Toini Gustafsson 16:45.2  
10 km Britt Strandberg 39:25.7 15
Barbro Tano 39:09.6 10
Barbro Martinsson 38:07.1 4
Toini Gustafsson 36:46.5  
Women's 3 x 5 km relay
Athletes Race
Time Rank
Britt Strandberg
Toini Gustafsson
Barbro Martinsson 		57:51.0  

Figure skating

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Main article: Figure skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Men
Athlete CF FS Points Places Rank
Thomas Callerud 27 27 1399.3 241 27

Ice hockey

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Main article: Ice hockey at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Summary
Team Event First round Medal round / Consolation round
Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Rank
Sweden men's Men's tournament BYE MR   United States
W 4–3 		  West Germany
W 5–4 		  East Germany
W 5–2 		  Finland
W 5–1 		  Soviet Union
L 2–3 		  Canada
L 0–3 		  Czechoslovakia
T 2–2 		4

Medal Round

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Rank Team Pld W L T GF GA Pts
1   Soviet Union 7 6 1 0 48 10 12
2   Czechoslovakia 7 5 1 1 33 17 11
3   Canada 7 5 2 0 28 15 10
4   Sweden 7 4 2 1 23 18 9
5   Finland 7 3 3 1 17 23 7
6   United States 7 2 4 1 23 28 5
7   West Germany 7 1 6 0 13 39 2
8   East Germany 7 0 7 0 13 48 0

  Sweden –   USA 4:3 (0:0, 4:2, 0:1)
Goalscorers: Nilsson, Wickberg, Hedlund, Bengsston – Falkman, Lilyholm, Nanne.
Referees: McEvoy, Kubinec (CAN)

  Sweden –   West Germany 5:4 (4:3, 0:0, 1:1)
Goalscorers: Svedberg, Lundström, Nordlander, Olsson, Öberg – Kuhn, Hanig, Reif, Kopf.
Referees: Kořínek, Bucala (TCH)

  Sweden –   East Germany 5:2 (1:0, 2:1, 2:1)
Goalscorers: Hedlund 2, Wickberg, Lundström, Henriksson – Plotka, Fuchs.
Referees: Seglin (URS), Wycisk (POL)

  Sweden –   Finland 5:1 (1:0, 2:1, 2:0)
Goalscorers: Wickberg 2, Granholm, Nillsson, Bengsston – Oksanen.
Referees: Kubinec (CAN), Kořínek (TCH)

  USSR –   Sweden 3:2 (1:1, 0:0, 2:1)
Goalscorers: Firsov 2, Blinov – Öberg, Svedberg.
Referees: Kubinec (CAN), Kořínek (TCH)

  Sweden –   Canada 0:3 (0:2, 0.0, 0:1)
Goalscorers: Johnston, G. Pinder, O‘Shea.
Referees: Sillankorva (FIN), Kořínek (TCH)

  Czechoslovakia –   Sweden 2:2 (1:1, 1:0, 0:1)
Goalscorers: Golonka, Hrbatý – Bengtsson, Henriksson.
Referees: Trumble (USA), Sillankorva (FIN)

Contestants

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4. SWEDEN
Goaltenders: Leif Holmqvist, Hans Dahllöf.
Defence: Arne Carlsson, Nils Johansson, Bert-Olov Nordlander, Lars-Erik Sjöberg, Roland Stoltz, Lennart Svedberg.
Forwards: Folke Bengtsson, Svante Granholm, Henric Hedlund, Leif Henriksson, Tord Lundström, Lars-Göran Nilsson, Roger Olsson, Björn Palmqvist, Håkan Wickberg, Carl-Göran Öberg.
Coach: Arne Strömberg.

Luge

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Main article: Luge at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Men
Athlete Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Ivar Bjare 1:00.73 34 1:01.44 36 1:00.63 33 3:02.80 32
Per-Ulf Helander 1:00.25 31 1:01.67 37 1:01.20 34 3:03.12 34
Hans Sahlin 59.12 24 59.36 22 59.98 28 2:58.46 25
Jan Nilsson 59.00 20 59.67 27 59.24 23 2:57.91 23

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes Run 1 Run 2 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Ivar Bjare
Jan Nilsson 		51.04 13 50.52 13 1:41.56 13
Women
Athlete Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Berit Salomonsson 50.89 14 51.35 17 51.31 13 2:33.55 13

Ski jumping

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Main article: Ski jumping at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Athlete Event Jump 1 Jump 2 Total
Distance Points Distance Points Points Rank
Ulf Norberg Normal hill 65.5 82.6 66.0 84.4 167.0 48
Thord Karlsson 67.5 85.8 69.5 90.0 175.8 43
Mats Östman 67.5 87.8 64.0 77.7 165.5 49
Kurt Elimä 71.0 95.4 69.5 90.5 185.9 37
Mats Östman Large hill 83.0 76.6 79.5 72.2 148.8 52
Kjell Sjöberg 85.5 86.1 73.0 59.1 145.2 53
Kurt Elimä 87.5 88.9 85.5 85.1 174.0 37
Thord Karlsson 91.0 92.3 87.5 86.9 179.2 32

Speed skating

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Main article: Speed skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Men
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
500 m Manne Lavås 41.8 24
Heike Hedlund 41.2 15
Hasse Börjes 41.2 15
Håkan Holmgren 40.8 8
1500 m Göran Claeson 2:08.6 20
Manne Lavås 2:07.8 16
Örjan Sandler 2:07.0 10
Johnny Höglin 2:05.2 5
5000 m Jonny Nilsson 7:32.9 7
Örjan Sandler 7:32.8 6
Johnny Höglin 7:32.7 5
10,000 m Jonny Nilsson 15:39.6 6
Örjan Sandler 15:31.8  
Johnny Höglin 15:23.6 OR  
Women
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
500 m Ylva Hedlund 49.9 26
Christina Lindblom-Scherling 47.7 15
1000 m Ylva Hedlund 1:37.5 19
Christina Lindblom-Scherling 1:36.9 15
1500 m Ylva Hedlund 2:31.5 20
Christina Karlsson 2:31.4 18
Christina Lindblom-Scherling 2:27.5 9
3000 m Christina Karlsson 5:17.2 13
Christina Lindblom-Scherling 5:09.8 7

References

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