Sweden at the 1956 Winter Olympics
Sporting event delegation
Sweden at the 1956 Winter Olympics | |
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IOC code | SWE |
NOC | Swedish Olympic Committee |
Website | www |
in Cortina d'Ampezzo | |
Competitors | 58 (50 men, 8 women) in 8 sports |
Flag bearers | Bror Östman, Ski Jumping |
Medals Ranked 6th |
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Winter Olympics appearances (overview) | |
Sweden competed at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
Medalists
Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
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Gold | Sixten Jernberg | Cross-country skiing | Men's 50 km |
Gold | Sigvard Ericsson | Speed skating | Men's 10 000 m |
Silver | Sixten Jernberg | Cross-country skiing | Men's 15 km |
Silver | Sixten Jernberg | Cross-country skiing | Men's 30 km |
Silver | Bengt Eriksson | Nordic combined | Men's individual |
Silver | Sigvard Ericsson | Speed skating | Men's 5000m |
Bronze | Stig Sollander | Alpine skiing | Men's slalom |
Bronze | Lennart Larsson Gunnar Samuelsson Per-Erik Larsson Sixten Jernberg | Cross-country skiing | Men's 4 × 10 km relay |
Bronze | Sonja Ruthström-Edström | Cross-country skiing | Women's 10 km |
Bronze | Irma Johansson Anna-Lisa Eriksson Sonja Ruthström-Edström | Cross-country skiing | Women's 3 x 5 km relay |
Alpine skiing
- Men
Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Lars Mattsson | Downhill | 3:50.4 | 32 | ||||
Stig Sollander | 3:05.4 | 10 | |||||
Hans Olofsson | Giant Slalom | DSQ | – | ||||
Olle Dalman | 3:24.9 | 29 | |||||
Åke Nilsson | 3:21.4 | 20 | |||||
Stig Sollander | 3:17.1 | 16 | |||||
Hans Olofsson | Slalom | DSQ | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
Åke Nilsson | 1:39.8 | 29 | 1:57.5 | 11 | 3:37.3 | 14 | |
Olle Dalman | 1:34.2 | 20 | 2:03.4 (+0:05) | 15 | 3:37.6 | 15 | |
Stig Sollander | 1:29.2 | 5 | 1:51.0 | 3 | 3:20.2 |
- Women
Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Vivi-Anne Wassdahl | Downhill | 2:08.0 | 42 | ||||
Ingrid Englund | 1:51.8 | 18 | |||||
Eivor Berglund | 1:51.6 | 15 | |||||
Vivi-Anne Wassdahl | Giant Slalom | 2:06.4 | 31 | ||||
Eivor Berglund | 2:04.9 | 26 | |||||
Ingrid Englund | 2:04.5 | 25 | |||||
Eivor Berglund | Slalom | DSQ | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
Ingrid Englund | DSQ | – | – | – | DSQ | – | |
Vivi-Anne Wassdahl | 1:31.2 (+0:05) | 35 | 59.6 | 8 | 2:30.8 | 28 |
Bobsleigh
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 | Olle Axelsson Tryggve Sundström | Two-man | 1:27.15 | 15 | 1:27.82 | 22 | 1:26.01 | 12 | 1:25.67 | 9 | 5:46.65 | 17 |
SWE-2 | Sven Erbs Walter Aronson | Two-man | 2:29.66 | 23 | 1:25.01 | 11 | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
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 | Olle Axelsson Ebbe Wallén Sune Skagerling Gunnar Åhs | Four-man | 1:18.95 | 8 | 1:19.98 | 12 | 1:22.75 | 20 | 1:21.86 | 18 | 5:23.54 | 16 |
SWE-2 | Kjell Holmström Sven Erbs Walter Aronson Jan Lapidoth | Four-man | 1:20.58 | 14 | 1:20.32 | 15 | 1:21.15 | 15 | 1:21.13 | 14 | 5:23.18 | 13 |
Cross-country skiing
- Men
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
15 km | Gunnar Samuelsson | 52:39 | 15 |
Per-Erik Larsson | 51:44 | 12 | |
Lennart Larsson | 51:03 | 8 | |
Sixten Jernberg | 50:14 | ||
30 km | Gunnar Samuelsson | 1'48:23 | 11 |
Lennart Larsson | 1'46:56 | 8 | |
Per-Erik Larsson | 1'46:51 | 7 | |
Sixten Jernberg | 1'44:30 | ||
50 km | Inge Limberg | 3'10:19 | 12 |
Arthur Olsson | 3'10:03 | 11 | |
Sture Grahn | 3'06:32 | 10 | |
Sixten Jernberg | 2'50:27 |
- Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Athletes | Race | |
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Time | Rank | |
Lennart Larsson Gunnar Samuelsson Per-Erik Larsson Sixten Jernberg | 2'17:42 |
- Women
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
10 km | Barbro Martinsson | 41:04 | 14 |
Anna-Lisa Eriksson | 40:56 | 13 | |
Irma Johansson | 40:20 | 7 | |
Sonja Ruthström-Edström | 38:23 |
- Women's 3 x 5 km relay
Athletes | Race | |
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Time | Rank | |
Irma Johansson Anna-Lisa Eriksson Sonja Ruthström-Edström | 1'09:48 |
Figure skating
- Women
Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
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Alice Lundström | 19 | 18 | 136.34 | 206 | 19 |
Ice hockey
- Summary
Team | Event | First round | Final round / Consolation round | |||||||
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Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | ||
Sweden men's | Men's tournament | Soviet Union L 1–5 | Switzerland W 6–5 | 2 Q MR | Soviet Union L 1–4 | Czechoslovakia W 5–0 | United States L 1–6 | Canada L 2–6 | Germany T 1–1 | 4 |
Group C
Top two teams advanced to medal round.
Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
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1 | Soviet Union | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 4 |
2 | Sweden | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 2 |
3 | Switzerland | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 16 | 0 |
- USSR 5–1 Sweden
- Sweden 6–5 Switzerland
Games for 1st-6th places
Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
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1 | Soviet Union | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 5 | 10 |
2 | United States | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 12 | 8 |
3 | Canada | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 11 | 6 |
4 | Sweden | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 17 | 3 |
5 | Czechoslovakia | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 20 | 30 | 2 |
6 | Germany | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 35 | 1 |
- USSR 4–1 Sweden
- Sweden 5–0 Czechoslovakia
- USA 6–1 Sweden
- Canada 6–2 Sweden
- Germany (UTG) 1–1 Sweden
Contestants Lars Svensson Yngve Casslind Bertz Zetterberg Lars Björn Åke Lassas Vilgot Larsson Ove Malmberg Holger Nurmela Sven Johansson Sigurd Bröms Hans Öberg Ronald Pettersson Nils Nilsson Lars-Eric Lundvall Stig Andersson-Tvilling Hans Andersson-Tvilling Stig Carlsson |
Nordic combined
Events:
- normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
- 15 km cross-country skiing
Athlete | Event | Ski Jumping | Cross-country | Total | ||||||
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Distance 1 | Distance 2 | Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | ||
Bengt Eriksson | Individual | 72.5 | 72.5 | 214.0 | 3 | 1'00:36 | 223.400 | 15 | 437.400 |
Ski jumping
Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Total | |||||
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Distance | Points | Rank | Distance | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | ||
Holger Karlsson | Normal hill | 76.0 fall | 71.5 | 51 | 77.5 | 104.5 | 10 | 176.0 | 41 |
Erik Styf | 76.0 | 102.5 | 15 | 75.0 fall | 66.5 | 51 | 169.0 | 44 | |
Bror Östman | 76.0 | 102.5 | 15 | 75.5 | 102.0 | 13 | 204.5 | 14 | |
Sven Pettersson | 81.0 | 109.5 | 5 | 81.5 | 110.5 | 5 | 220.0 | 5 |
Speed skating
- Men
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
500 m | Gunnar Ström | 44.7 | 42 |
Sigvard Ericsson | 44.2 | 37 | |
Bertil Eng | 42.6 | 15 | |
Bengt Malmsten | 41.9 | 7 | |
1500 m | Gunnar Ström | 2:15.6 | 22 |
Bengt Malmsten | 2:14.6 | 17 | |
Bertil Eng | 2:13.1 | 11 | |
Sigvard Ericsson | 2:11.0 | 6 | |
5000 m | Sven Andersson | 8:16.9 | 22 |
Gunnar Sjölin | 8:06.7 | 12 | |
Olle Dahlberg | 8:01.8 | 7 | |
Sigvard Ericsson | 7:56.7 | ||
10,000 m | Gunnar Ström | 17:17.0 | 15 |
Sven Andersson | 17:13.5 | 13 | |
Olle Dahlberg | 17:01.3 | 8 | |
Sigvard Ericsson | 16:35.9 OR |
References
- Olympic Winter Games 1956, full results by sports-reference.com
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Intercalated Games |
Sweden hosted the 1912 Summer Olympics.