Sweden at the 2004 Summer Paralympics

Sweden competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece. The team included 41 athletes, 32 men and 9 women.[2] Competitors from Sweden won 21 medals, including 8 gold, 7 silver and 6 bronze to finish 21st in the medal table.[3]

Sweden at the
2004 Summer Paralympics
IPC codeSWE
NPCSwedish Parasports Federation
in Athens
Competitors41 in 10 sports
Flag bearerLars Löfström[1]
Medals
Ranked 21st
Gold
8
Silver
7
Bronze
6
Total
21
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)

Medalists edit

Medal Name Sport Event
  Gold Sandra Eriksson Swimming Women's 50 m butterfly S4
  Gold Jonas Jacobsson Shooting Men's air rifle standing SH1
  Gold Jonas Jacobsson Shooting Men's free rifle 3x40 SH1
  Gold Jonas Jacobsson Shooting Mixed air rifle prone SH1
  Gold Jonas Jacobsson Shooting Mixed free rifle prone SH1
  Gold Anders Olsson Swimming Men's 400 m freestyle S6
  Gold Iréne Slättengren Equestrian Individual championship dressage GII
  Gold Iréne Slättengren Equestrian Individual freestyle dressage GII
  Silver Fredrik Andersson Table tennis Men's singles class 10
  Silver Mikael Aspegren
Jimmy Björkstrand
Niklas Hultgvist
Oskar Kuus
Mikael Rendahl
Boris Samuelsson
Goalball Men's tournament
  Silver Marleen Bengtsson Kovacs Table tennis Women's singles class 6–8
  Silver Anders Grönberg Archery Men's W1
  Silver Thomas Johansson Shooting Mixed air rifle standing SH2
  Silver Tim Johansson Athletics Men's 200 metres T51
  Silver Madelene Nordlund Athletics Women's 400 metres T53
  Bronze Fredrik Andersson
Magnus Andrée
Table tennis Men's teams class 6–7
  Bronze Simon Itkonen
Linus Lönnberg
Table tennis Men's teams class 10
  Bronze Madelene Nordlund Athletics Women's 800 metres T53
  Bronze Anders Olsson Swimming Men's 50 m freestyle S6
  Bronze Anders Olsson Swimming Men's 100 m freestyle S6
  Bronze Viktoria Wedin Shooting Mixed air rifle standing SH2

Sports edit

Archery edit

Men edit

Athlete Event Ranking round Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
Score Seed Opposition
score
Opposition
score
Opposition
score
Opposition
score
Opposition
score
Rank
Anders Groenberg Men's individual W1 661 2 N/A Bye   Hassberg (GER)
W 102-102*
  Sebek (CZE)
W 99-96
  Cavanagh (GBR)
L 102-108
 

Athletics edit

Men's track edit

Athlete Class Event Heats Semifinal Final
Result Rank Result Rank Result Rank
Tim Johansson T51 200m N/A 40.15  
Marathon N/A DNF
Christer Lenander T38 100m 12.64 9 did not advance
Per Vesterlund T52 800m 2:12.66 9 did not advance
1500m 4:05.49 7 q N/A 4:04.32 6
5000m N/A 14:30.33 7
Marathon N/A 2:26:09 5

Men's field edit

Athlete Class Event Final
Result Points Rank
Christer Lenander F36-38 Long jump 5.59 929 8
Harald von Koch P44 Pentathlon 3324 8

Women's track edit

Athlete Class Event Heats Semifinal Final
Result Rank Result Rank Result Rank
Madelene Nordlund T53 400m 57.37 PR 1 Q N/A 58.32  
800m 1:58.03 4 q N/A 2:00.30  

Cycling edit

Men's road edit

Athlete Event Time Rank
Michael Lindgren Men's road race/time trial LC1 2:39:17 6

Equestrian edit

Athlete Event Total
Score Rank
Kerstin Englund Mixed individual championship test grade II 68.091 6
Mixed individual freestyle test grade II 71.389 8
Gabriella Loef Mixed individual championship test grade III 64.720 8
Mixed individual freestyle test grade III 71.778 6
Irene Slaettengren Mixed individual championship test grade II 72.636  
Mixed individual freestyle test grade II 78.944  
Berit Svensson Mixed individual championship test grade III 64.560 9
Mixed individual freestyle test grade III 68.500 10

Team edit

Athlete Event Total
Total Rank
Kerstin Englund
Gabriella Loef
Irene Slaettengren
Berit Svensson
Team 410.148 4

Goalball edit

The men's goalball team won the silver medal after being defeated by Denmark in the gold medal final.

Players edit

Tournament edit

Game Match Score Rank
1 Sweden vs.   Denmark (DEN) 3 – 3 2 Q
2 Sweden vs.   United States (USA) 1 – 1
3 Sweden vs.   Canada (CAN) 4 – 4
4 Sweden vs.   Germany (GER) 3 – 1
5 Sweden vs.   Greece (GRE) 10 – 5
Quarterfinals Sweden vs.   Finland (FIN) 5 – 1 W
Semifinals Sweden vs.   Canada (CAN) 5 – 3 W
Gold medal final Sweden vs.   Denmark (DEN) 5 – 7  

Shooting edit

Men edit

Athlete Event Qualification Final
Score Rank Score Total Rank
Jonas Jacobsson Men's 10m air rifle standing SH1 593 =WR 1 Q 100.4 693.4  
Men's 50m rifle 3 positions SH1 1162 WR 1 Q 99.1 1261.1 WR  
Mixed 10m air rifle prone SH1 600 =WR 1 Q 105.3 705.3  
Mixed 50m rifle prone SH1 597 WR 1 Q 104.4 701.4 WR  
Thomas Johansson Mixed 10m air rifle prone SH1 600 =WR 1 Q 103.9 703.9 4
Mixed 10m air rifle standing SH2 598 4 Q 105.4 703.4  
Mixed 50m rifle prone SH1 577 23 did not advance
Kenneth Pettersson Men's 10m air pistol SH1 558 10 did not advance
Mixed 25m pistol SH1 560 8 Q 88.5 648.5 8
Mixed 50m pistol SH1 495 24 did not advance
Bjorn Samuelsson Men's 10m air rifle standing SH1 555 22 did not advance
Men's 50m rifle 3 positions SH1 1092 20 did not advance
Mixed 50m rifle prone SH1 572 29 did not advance

Women edit

Athlete Event Qualification Final
Score Rank Score Total Rank
Lotta Helsinger Mixed 10m air rifle prone SH1 599 5 Q 103.7 702.7 8
Women's 10m air rifle standing SH1 381 10 did not advance
Viktoria Wedin Mixed 10m air rifle prone SH2 599 6 Q 104.5 703.5 7
Mixed 10m air rifle standing SH2 599 2 Q 103.7 702.7  

Swimming edit

Men edit

Athlete Class Event Heats Final
Result Rank Result Rank
Anders Olsson S6 50m freestyle 32.71 4 Q 31.90  
100m freestyle 1:09.22 2 Q 1:09.47  
400m freestyle 5:11.63 PR 1 Q 5:03.76 WR  
SB5 100m breaststroke 1:45.69 8 Q 1:44.68 8
SM6 200m individual medley 3:12.14 9 did not advance
Alex Racoveanu S9 100m butterfly 1:06.53 8 Q 1:05.77 5
SB8 100m breaststroke 1:23.74 8 Q 1:23.30 6
SM9 200m individual medley 2:38.40 10 did not advance

Women edit

Athlete Class Event Heats Final
Result Rank Result Rank
Sandra Erikson S4 50m freestyle 57.09 8 Q 56.54 7
100m freestyle 2:12.11 8 Q 2:09.49 8
50m butterfly N/A 56.36 WR  
SM4 150m individual medley 4:15.07 10 did not advance

Table tennis edit

Men edit

Athlete Event Preliminaries Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Rank Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Rank
Fredrik Andersson Men's singles 10   Gaspar (SVK)
L 1-3
  Puglisi (ITA)
W 3-0
  Bereczki (HUN)
W 3-0
2 Q N/A   de la Bourdonnaye (FRA)
W 3-1
  Ruiz (ESP)
W 3-2
  Gaspar (SVK)
L 1-3
 
Ernst Bolldén Men's singles 5   Robles (ESP)
L 0-3
  Nilsen (RSA)
W 3-1
  Kalyvas (GRE)
W 3-0
2 Q   Chang (TPE)
L 1-3
did not advance
Patrik Hoegstedt Men's singles 5   Kim (KOR)
L 0-3
  Djurasinovic (SCG)
L 2-3
  Pazaran (MEX)
L 1-3
4 did not advance
Simon Itkonen Men's singles 6   Schmidt (GER)
L 2-3
  Jensen (DEN)
L 2-3
  Solis (CHI)
W 3-0
3 did not advance
Oerjan Kylevik Men's singles 3   Piñas (ESP)
L 2–3
  Wu (TPE)
W 3–1
  Valka (SVK)
W 3–1
2 Q   Robin (FRA)
L 0–3
did not advance
Linus Loennberg Men's singles 7   Wollmert (GER)
L 0-3
  Qin (CHN)
L 0-3
  Popov (UKR)
L 1-3
4 did not advance

Women edit

Athlete Event Preliminaries Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Rank Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Rank
Marleen Bengtsson Kovacs Women's singles 6-8   Ovsjannikova (RUS)
W 3–0
  Darvand (FRA)
W 3–0
  Munoz (ARG)
W 3–0
1 Q   Barbusova (SVK)
W 3–0
  Turowska (POL)
W 3-2
  Zhang (CHN)
L 1-3
 

Teams edit

Athlete Event Preliminaries Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Rank Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Rank
Ernst Bolldén
Patrik Hoegstedt
Oerjan Kylevik
Men's team 5   Chinese Taipei (TPE)
L 0-3
  Greece (GRE)
W 3-0
N/A 2 Q   Czech Republic (CZE)
L 1-3
did not advance
Simon Itkonen
Linus Loennberg
Men's team 6-7   France (FRA)
W 3-2
  Denmark (DEN)
L 2-3
  Netherlands (NED)
W 3-0
3 did not advance  
Magnus Andree
Fredrik Andersson
Men's team 10   Czech Republic (CZE)
L 1-3
  Italy (ITA)
W 3-0
  Hungary (HUN)
W 3-1
2 Q N/A   China (CHN)
L 1-3
  Czech Republic (CZE)
W 3-1
 

Wheelchair tennis edit

Athlete Class Event Round of 64 Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Niclas Larsson Open Men's singles   Ammerlaan (NED)
L 0–6, 0–6
did not advance
Stefan Olsson   Kumarasiri (SRI)
W 6–1, 6–0
  Brychta (CZE)
L 5–7, 2–6
did not advance
Peter Wikstrom   Krieghofer (AUT)
W 6–3, 6–1
  Plowman (GBR)
W 6–2, 6–0
  Kunieda (JPN)
L 3–6, 6–4, 3–6
did not advance
Stefan Olsson
Peter Wikstrom
Men's doubles N/A   Onasie (INA) /
  Sugiharto (INA)
W 6–0, 6–0
  Baumgartner (AUT) /
  Legner (AUT)
W 6–4, 6–4
  Jérémiasz (FRA) /
  Majdi (FRA)
L 1–6, 2–6
did not advance

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Fanbärare – Svenska Parasportförbundet och Sveriges Paralympiska Kommitté". Archived from the original on 2016-10-08. Retrieved 2016-10-02.
  2. ^ "Participation Numbers Athens 2004 Paralympic Games". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
  3. ^ "Medal Standings Athens 2004 Paralympic Games". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 8 June 2011.