Sweden at the 1956 Winter Olympics
Appearance
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
[edit]Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
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Sixten Jernberg | Cross-country skiing | Men's 50 km |
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Sigvard Ericsson | Speed skating | Men's 10 000 m |
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Sixten Jernberg | Cross-country skiing | Men's 15 km |
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Sixten Jernberg | Cross-country skiing | Men's 30 km |
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Bengt Eriksson | Nordic combined | Men's individual |
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Sigvard Ericsson | Speed skating | Men's 5000m |
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Stig Sollander | Alpine skiing | Men's slalom |
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Lennart Larsson Gunnar Samuelsson Per-Erik Larsson Sixten Jernberg |
Cross-country skiing | Men's 4 × 10 km relay |
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Sonja Ruthström-Edström | Cross-country skiing | Women's 10 km |
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Irma Johansson Anna-Lisa Eriksson Sonja Ruthström-Edström |
Cross-country skiing | Women's 3 x 5 km relay |
Alpine skiing
[edit]- 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
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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
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- 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
[edit]- Women
Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
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Alice Lundström | 19 | 18 | 136.34 | 206 | 19 |
Ice hockey
[edit]- Summary
Team | Event | First round | Final round / Consolation round | |||||||
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Opposition Score |
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Rank | Opposition Score |
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Sweden men's | Men's tournament | ![]() L 1–5 |
![]() W 6–5 |
2 Q MR | ![]() L 1–4 |
![]() W 5–0 |
![]() L 1–6 |
![]() L 2–6 |
![]() T 1–1 |
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Group C
[edit]Top two teams advanced to medal round.
Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
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1 | ![]() |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 4 |
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2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 2 |
3 | ![]() |
2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 16 | 0 |
- USSR 5–1 Sweden
- Sweden 6–5 Switzerland
Games for 1st-6th places
[edit]Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
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1 | ![]() |
5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 5 | 10 |
2 | ![]() |
5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 12 | 8 |
3 | ![]() |
5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 11 | 6 |
4 | ![]() |
5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 17 | 3 |
5 | ![]() |
5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 20 | 30 | 2 |
6 | ![]() |
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
Nordic combined
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- 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 | ![]() |