Sweden_at_the_1980_Winter_Olympics

Sweden at the
1980 Winter Olympics
Sweden at the; 1980 Winter Olympics
IOC code	SWE
NOC	Swedish Olympic Committee
Website	www.sok.se (in Swedish and English)
in Lake Placid
Competitors	61 (49 men, 12 women) in 9 sports
Flag bearers	Eva Olsson, cross-country skiing
Medals; Ranked 5th	Gold 3 Silver 0 Bronze 1 Total 4
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Sweden at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Sporting event delegation

Sweden competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States.

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Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Ingemar Stenmark	Alpine skiing	Men's giant slalom
Gold	Ingemar Stenmark	Alpine skiing	Men's slalom
Gold	Thomas Wassberg	Cross-country skiing	Men's 15 km
Bronze	Sweden men's national ice hockey team Mats Waltin Ulf Weinstock Lennart Norberg Tommy Samuelsson Dan Söderström Per Lundqvist Lars Molin Mats Näslund William Löfqvist Harald Lückner Bengt Lundholm Leif Holmgren Tomas Jonsson Pelle Lindbergh Håkan Eriksson Jan Eriksson Thomas Eriksson Mats Åhlberg Sture Andersson Bo Berglund	Ice hockey	Men's competition

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Stig Strand	Giant Slalom	1:23.37	32	1:25.25	31	2:48.62	28
Torsten Jakobsson		1:23.24	31	1:23.18	17	2:46.42	21
Ingemar Stenmark		1:20.49	3	1:20.25	1	2:40.74
Torsten Jakobsson	Slalom	DSQ	–	–	–	DSQ	–
Stig Strand		55.64	16	DNF	–	DNF	–
Ingemar Stenmark		53.89	4	50.37	1	1:44.26

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Åsa Svedmark	Giant Slalom	1:18.90	29	1:31.47	25	2:50.37	24
Anna-Karin Hesse		1:17.24	12	1:29.78	13	2:47.02	11
Ann Melander		1:16.84	10	1:30.79	19	2:47.63	15
Anna-Karin Hesse	Slalom	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Åsa Svedmark		46.06	18	45.45	9	1:31.51	12
Ann Melander		44.51	11	45.31	8	1:29.82	9

Event	Athlete	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Per Andersson	2	35:55.57	22
	Ronnie Adolfsson	3	35:14.87	15
	Sören Wikström	2	34:57.01	14

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ²	Rank
20 km	Sven Fahlén	1'09:49.23	8	1'17:49.23	31
	Sören Wikström	1'08:13.34	5	1'13:13.34	12
	Ronnie Adolfsson	1'08:10.90	5	1'13:10.90	11

Sweden at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
Sven Fahlén Per Andersson Sören Wikström Ronnie Adolfsson	6	1'40:44.62	10

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
SWE-1	Carl-Erik Eriksson Kenth Rönn	Two-man	1:03.56	9	1:04.49	14	1:03.22	8	1:05.65	20	4:16.92	15

Team	Event	Group stage						Medal round / consolation round
Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Sweden men's	Men's tournament	United States T 2–2	Romania W 8–0	West Germany W 5–2	Norway W 7–1	Czechoslovakia W 4–2	1 Q MR	Finland T 3–3	Soviet Union L 2–9

	Team advanced to the Final Round
	Team advanced to consolation round

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Jan Holmlund	Normal hill	75.0	101.7	71.0	93.8	195.5	34
Jan Holmlund	Large hill	75.0	26.2	DNS	–	26.2	50