Sweden_at_the_1956_Winter_Olympics
Sweden at the 1956 Winter Olympics
Sporting event delegation
Sweden competed at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
Quick Facts Sweden at the 1956 Winter Olympics, IOC code ...
| Sweden at the 1956 Winter Olympics | |
|---|---|
| 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) | |
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More information Medal, Name ...
| Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
|---|---|---|---|
 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 |
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Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics
- Men
More information Athlete, Event ...
| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | | |
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- Women
More information Athlete, Event ...
| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
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Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1956 Winter Olympics
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More information Sled, Athletes ...
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | – |
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More information Sled, Athletes ...
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics
- Men
More information Event, Athlete ...
| Event | Athlete | Race | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | | |
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- Men's 4 × 10 km relay
More information Athletes, Race ...
| Athletes | Race | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | |
| Lennart Larsson Gunnar Samuelsson Per-Erik Larsson Sixten Jernberg |
2'17:42 | |
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- Women
More information Event, Athlete ...
| Event | Athlete | Race | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | | |
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- Women's 3 x 5 km relay
More information Athletes, Race ...
| Athletes | Race | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | |
| Irma Johansson Anna-Lisa Eriksson Sonja Ruthström-Edström |
1'09:48 | |
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Main article: Figure skating at the 1956 Winter Olympics
- Women
More information Athlete, CF ...
| Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alice Lundström | 19 | 18 | 136.34 | 206 | 19 |
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Main article: Ice hockey at the 1956 Winter Olympics
- Summary
More information Team, Event ...
| Team | Event | First round | Final round / Consolation round | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition Score |
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Rank | Opposition Score |
Opposition Score |
Opposition Score |
Opposition Score |
Opposition Score |
Rank | ||
| Sweden men's | Men's tournament |  Soviet UnionL 1–5 |
 SwitzerlandW 6–5 |
2 Q MR | Soviet Union L 1–4 |
 CzechoslovakiaW 5–0 |
 United StatesL 1–6 |
 CanadaL 2–6 |
 GermanyT 1–1 |
4 |
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Group C
Top two teams advanced to medal round.
More information Rank, Team ...
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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- USSR 5–1 Sweden
- Sweden 6–5 Switzerland
Games for 1st-6th places
More information Rank, Team ...
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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- USSR 4–1 Sweden
- Sweden 5–0 Czechoslovakia
- USA 6–1 Sweden
- Canada 6–2 Sweden
- Germany (UTG) 1–1 Sweden
Main article: Nordic combined at the 1956 Winter Olympics
Events:
- normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
- 15 km cross-country skiing
More information Athlete, Event ...
| Athlete | Event | Ski Jumping | Cross-country | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
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Main article: Ski jumping at the 1956 Winter Olympics
More information Athlete, Event ...
| Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
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Main article: Speed skating at the 1956 Winter Olympics
- Men
More information Event, Athlete ...
| Event | Athlete | Race | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | | |
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