Sweden at the 1968 Winter Olympics | |
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IOC code | SWE |
NOC | Swedish Olympic Committee |
Website | www |
in Grenoble | |
Competitors | 68 (59 men, 9 women) in 9 sports |
Flag bearer | Barbro Martinsson (Cross-country skiing) |
Medals Ranked 7th |
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Winter Olympics appearances (overview) | |
Sweden competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France.
Medalists
[edit]Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
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Toini Gustafsson | Cross-country skiing | Women's 5 km |
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Toini Gustafsson | Cross-country skiing | Women's 10 km |
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Johnny Höglin | Speed skating | Men's 10 000 m |
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Jan Halvarsson Bjarne Andersson Gunnar Larsson Assar Rönnlund |
Cross-country skiing | Men's 4 × 10 km relay |
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Britt Strandberg Toini Gustafsson Barbro Martinsson |
Cross-country skiing | Women's 3 x 5 km relay |
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Lars-Göran Arwidson Tore Eriksson Olle Petrusson Holmfrid Olsson |
Biathlon | Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay |
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Gunnar Larsson | Cross-country skiing | Men's 15 km |
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Örjan Sandler | Speed skating | Men's 10 000 m |
Alpine skiing
[edit]- Men
Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
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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 | |||||||
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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 | |||
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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
[edit]- Men
Event | Athlete | Time | Penalties | Adjusted time 1 | Rank |
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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 | ||
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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
[edit]Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
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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 | |||
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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
[edit]- Men
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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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 | |
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Time | Rank | |
Jan Halvarsson Bjarne Andersson Gunnar Larsson Assar Rönnlund |
2'10:13.2 | ![]() |
- Women
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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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 | |
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Time | Rank | |
Britt Strandberg Toini Gustafsson Barbro Martinsson |
57:51.0 | ![]() |
Figure skating
[edit]- Men
Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
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Thomas Callerud | 27 | 27 | 1399.3 | 241 | 27 |
Ice hockey
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Sweden men's | Men's tournament | BYE MR | ![]() W 4–3 |
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Medal Round
[edit]Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
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1 | ![]() |
7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 48 | 10 | 12 |
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7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 33 | 17 | 11 |
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7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 28 | 15 | 10 |
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7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 18 | 9 |
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7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 23 | 7 |
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7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 23 | 28 | 5 |
7 | ![]() |
7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 13 | 39 | 2 |
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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
[edit]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
[edit]- Men
Athlete | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Total | ||||
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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 | |||
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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 | ||||
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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
[edit]Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Total | |||
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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
[edit]- Men
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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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 | |
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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 |