Sweden_at_the_1972_Winter_Olympics
Sweden at the 1972 Winter Olympics
Sporting event delegation
Sweden competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan.
Quick Facts Sweden at the 1972 Winter Olympics, IOC code ...
Sweden at the 1972 Winter Olympics | |
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IOC code | SWE |
NOC | Swedish Olympic Committee |
Website | www |
in Sapporo | |
Competitors | 58 (49 men, 9 women) in 9 sports |
Flag bearer | Hasse Börjes (Speed skating) |
Medals Ranked 10th |
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Winter Olympics appearances (overview) | |
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More information Medal, Name ...
Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
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Gold | Sven-Åke Lundbäck | Cross-country skiing | Men's 15 km |
Silver | Hasse Börjes | Speed skating | Men's 500 m |
Bronze | Lars-Göran Arwidson | Biathlon | Men's 20 km |
Bronze | Göran Claeson | Speed skating | Men's 1500 m |
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Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics
- Men
More information Athlete, Event ...
Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Olle Rolén | Downhill | 1:59.28 | 34 | ||||
Manni Thofte | 1:56.66 | 28 | |||||
Manni Thofte | Giant Slalom | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
Olle Rolén | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – | |
Sven Mikaelsson | 1:37.88 | 29 | 1:43.77 | 27 | 3:21.65 | 28 |
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- Men's slalom
More information Athlete, Classification ...
Athlete | Classification | Final | ||||||
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Time | Rank | Time 1 | Rank | Time 2 | Rank | Total | Rank | |
Olle Rolén | 1:47.88 | 3 | 1:01.19 | 28 | DNF | – | DNF | – |
Sven Mikaelsson | 1:48.03 | 5 | 1:01.00 | 26 | 1:00.72 | 23 | 2:01.72 | 21 |
Manni Thofte | DNF | – | 1:01.14 | 27 | DNF | – | DNF | – |
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- Women
More information Athlete, Event ...
Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Lotta Sollander | Downhill | 1:42.97 | 31 | ||||
Lotta Sollander | Giant Slalom | DNF | – | ||||
Lotta Sollander | Slalom | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
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Main article: Biathlon at the 1972 Winter Olympics
- Men
More information Event, Athlete ...
Event | Athlete | Time | Penalties | Adjusted time 1 | Rank |
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20 km | Torsten Wadman | 1'17:17.56 | 13 | 1'30:17.56 | 49 |
Olle Petrusson | 1'16:40.58 | 12 | 1'28:40.58 | 42 | |
Holmfrid Olsson | 1'19:28.78 | 3 | 1'22:28.78 | 21 | |
Lars-Göran Arwidson | 1'14:27.03 | 2 | 1'16:27.03 |
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- 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
More information Athletes, Race ...
Athletes | Race | ||
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Misses 2 | Time | Rank | |
Lars-Göran Arwidson Olle Petrusson Torsten Wadman Holmfrid Olsson |
6 | 1'56:57.40 | 5 |
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- 2 A penalty loop of 200 metres had to be skied per missed target.
Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1972 Winter Olympics
More information Sled, Athletes ...
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 | Carl-Erik Eriksson Jan Johansson |
Two-man | 1:16.68 | 9 | 1:16.81 | 10 | 1:14.08 | 4 | 1:13.83 | 2 | 5:01.40 | 6 |
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More information Sled, Athletes ...
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 | Carl-Erik Eriksson Tom Mentzer Thomas Gustafsson Jan Johansson |
Four-man | 1:12.14 | 12 | 1:12.42 | 8 | 1:11.43 | 13 | 1:11.41 | 9 | 4:47.40 | 11 |
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Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics
- Men
More information Event, Athlete ...
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
15 km | Tord Backman | 47:22.97 | 20 |
Lars-Göran Åslund | 46:56.23 | 18 | |
Gunnar Larsson | 46:23.29 | 8 | |
Sven-Åke Lundbäck | 45:28.24 | ||
30 km | Thomas Magnuson | 1'43:26.02 | 28 |
Sven-Åke Lundbäck | 1'39:54.35 | 13 | |
Lars-Göran Åslund | 1'39:45.29 | 11 | |
Gunnar Larsson | 1'37:33.72 | 4 | |
50 km | Gunnar Larsson | 2'51:17.56 | 20 |
Tord Backman | 2'48:53.51 | 13 | |
Hans-Erik Larsson | 2'47:59.37 | 11 | |
Lars-Arne Bölling | 2'45:06.80 | 7 |
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- Men's 4 × 10 km relay
More information Athletes, Race ...
Athletes | Race | |
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Time | Rank | |
Thomas Magnuson Lars-Göran Åslund Gunnar Larsson Sven-Åke Lundbäck |
2'07:03.60 | 4 |
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- Women
More information Event, Athlete ...
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
5 km | Meeri Bodelid | 18:29.07 | 33 |
Birgitta Lindqvist | 18:25.88 | 32 | |
Barbro Tano | 17:54.53 | 19 | |
Eva Olsson | 17:46.66 | 15 | |
10 km | Birgitta Lindqvist | 37:24.76 | 28 |
Eva Olsson | 36:46.50 | 23 | |
Meeri Bodelid | 36:41.52 | 19 | |
Barbro Tano | 36:29.34 | 13 |
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- Women's 3 × 5 km relay
More information Athletes, Race ...
Athletes | Race | |
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Time | Rank | |
Meeri Bodelid Eva Olsson Birgitta Lindqvist |
51:51.84 | 8 |
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Main article: Figure skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics
- Women
More information Athlete, CF ...
Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
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Anita Johansson | 14 | 15 | 2349.3 | 131 | 15 |
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Main article: Ice hockey at the 1972 Winter Olympics
- Summary
More information Team, Event ...
Team | Event | First round | Final round / Consolation round | |||||
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Opposition Score |
Opposition Score |
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Rank | ||
Sweden men's | Men's tournament | Yugoslavia W 8–1 |
United States W 5–1 |
Soviet Union T 3–3 |
Poland W 5–3 |
Czechoslovakia L 1–2 |
Finland L 3–4 |
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First round
Winners (in bold) entered the medal round. Other teams played a consolation round for 7th-11th places.
Medal round
More information Rank, Team ...
Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
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1 | Soviet Union | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 33 | 13 | 9 |
2 | United States | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 15 | 6 |
3 | Czechoslovakia | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 26 | 13 | 6 |
4 | Sweden | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 13 | 5 |
5 | Finland | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 24 | 4 |
6 | Poland | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 39 | 0 |
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- Sweden 5–1 USA
- USSR 3–3 Sweden
- Sweden 5–3 Poland
- Czechoslovakia 2–1 Sweden
- Finland 4–3 Sweden
Main article: Nordic combined at the 1972 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 | ||||||
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Distance 1 | Distance 2 | Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | ||
Sven-Olof Israelsson | Individual | 64.0 | 62.0 | 130.3 | 39 | 51:24.9 | 193.000 | 20 | 323.300 | 36 |
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Main article: Ski jumping at the 1972 Winter Olympics
More information Athlete, Event ...
Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Total | |||
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Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank | ||
Anders Lundqvist | Normal hill | 71.0 | 98.3 | 68.0 | 93.5 | 191.8 | 42 |
Rolf Nordgren | 82.5 | 115.7 | 74.0 | 102.1 | 217.8 | 11 | |
Anders Lundqvist | Large hill | 84.5 | 85.8 | 78.0 | 72.2 | 158.0 | 41 |
Rolf Nordgren | 97.5 | 105.5 | 92.5 | 98.0 | 203.5 | 11 |
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Main article: Speed skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics
- Men
More information Event, Athlete ...
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
500 m | Johan Granath | 40.79 | 16 |
Mats Wallberg | 40.41 | 9 | |
Ove König | 40.25 | 7 | |
Hasse Börjes | 39.69 | ||
1500 m | Johan Granath | 2:10.21 | 16 |
Göran Johansson | 2:09.66 | 15 | |
Johnny Höglin | 2:08.11 | 9 | |
Göran Claeson | 2:05.89 | ||
5000 m | Örjan Sandler | 7:47.92 | 14 |
Johnny Höglin | 7:45.68 | 12 | |
Göran Claeson | 7:36.17 | 4 | |
10,000 m | Örjan Sandler | 16:04.90 | 15 |
Göran Claeson | 15:30.19 | 6 |
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- Women
More information Event, Athlete ...
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
500 m | Sylvia Filipsson | 46.78 | 23 |
Ylva Hedlund | 46.24 | 18 | |
Ann-Sofie Järnström | 45.83 | 15 | |
1000 m | Sylvia Filipsson | 1:37.24 | 30 |
Ann-Sofie Järnström | 1:35.21 | 19 | |
Ylva Hedlund | 1:33.82 | 14 | |
1500 m | Ann-Sofie Järnström | 2:31.53 | 26 |
Ylva Hedlund | 2:31.31 | 25 | |
Sylvia Filipsson | 2:29.38 | 20 | |
3000 m | Sylvia Filipsson | 5:11.13 | 14 |
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