Sweden at the 1952 Winter Olympics

Sweden at the
1952 Winter Olympics
Sweden at the; 1952 Winter Olympics
IOC code	SWE
NOC	Swedish Olympic Committee
Website	www.sok.se (in Swedish and English)
in Oslo
Competitors	65 (55 men, 9 women) in 8 sports
Flag bearer	Erik Elmsäter (Nordic combined)
Medals; Ranked 10th	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 4 Total 4
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Sweden competed at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Bronze	Nils Täpp Sigurd Andersson Enar Josefsson Martin Lundström	Cross-country skiing	Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Bronze	Sweden men's national ice hockey team Göte Almqvist Hans Andersson Stig Andersson Åke Andersson Lasse Björn Göte Blomqvist Thord Flodqvist Erik Johansson Gösta Johansson Rune Johansson Sven "Tumba" Johansson Åke Lassas Holger Nurmela Lars Pettersson Lars Svensson Sven Thunman Hans Öberg	Ice hockey	Men's competition
Bronze	Karl Holmström	Ski jumping	Men's normal hill
Bronze	Carl-Erik Asplund	Speed skating	Men's 10 000 m

Alpine skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Stig Sollander	Downhill					DSQ	–
Sixten Isberg						2:53.4	34
Åke Nilsson						2:47.0	27
John Fredriksson						2:44.5	23
John Fredriksson	Giant Slalom					2:55.9	49
Sixten Isberg						2:42.3	30
Åke Nilsson						2:37.0	21
Stig Sollander						2:32.6	6
Åke Nilsson	Slalom	1:06.1	28 Q	1:03.4	12	2:09.5	18
John Fredriksson		1:06.0	27 Q	1:05.9	21	2:11.9	24
Olle Dalman		1:04.3	21 Q	1:04.5	16	2:08.8	15
Stig Sollander		1:00.4	4 Q	1:02.2	8	2:02.6	5

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ingrid Englund	Downhill					2:01.3	29
Margareta Jacobsson						1:58.2	25
Sarah Thomasson						1:55.5	18
Margareta Jacobsson	Giant Slalom					DSQ	–
Ingrid Englund						2:29.9	32
Kerstin Ahlqvist						2:21.4	26
Sarah Thomasson						2:18.4	21
Ingrid Englund	Slalom	1:14.8	27	1:13.9	29	2:28.7	27
Kerstin Ahlqvist		1:10.8	18	1:12.5	26	2:23.3	20
Margareta Jacobsson		1:10.4	17	1:10.2	20	2:20.6	16
Sarah Thomasson		1:09.9	15	1:08.4	13	2:18.3	12

Bobsleigh

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	Olle Axelsson Jan Lapidoth	Two-man	1:24.30	11	1:23.92	7	1:23.46	8	1:24.09	9	5:35.77	8
SWE-2	Kjell Holmström Nils Landgren	Two-man	1:25.76	14	1:25.84	15	1:25.65	15	1:25.57	15	5:42.82	15

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	Kjell Holmström Felix Fernström Nils Landgren Jan Lapidoth	Four-man	1:19.11	7	1:19.90	7	1:17.28	3	1:18.72	5	5:15.01	6
SWE-2	Gunnar Åhs Börje Ekedahl Lennart Sandin Gunnar Garpö	Four-man	1:18.84	5	1:19.93	9	1:18.66	7	1:20.43	9	5:17.86	7

Cross-country skiing

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
18 km	Lars-Erik Efverström	1'14:19	58
	Erik Elmsäter	1'13:46	56
	Enar Josefsson	1'05:10	13
	Gunnar Östberg	1'03:44	9
	Nils Täpp	1'03:35	7
	Nils Karlsson	1'02:56	5
50 km	Arthur Herrdin	3'57:46	13
	Gunnar Eriksson	3'55:45	12
	Anders Törnqvist	3'49:22	10
	Nils Karlsson	3'39:30	6

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Nils Täpp Sigurd Andersson Enar Josefsson Martin Lundström	2'24:13

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
10 km	Sonja Ruthström-Edström	45:41	11
	Eivor Alm	45:20	9
	Margit Albrechtsson	45:05	8
	Märta Norberg	42:53	4

Figure skating

Pairs

Athletes	Points	Places	Rank
Britta Lindmark Ulf Berendt	8.756	106	12

Ice hockey

Summary

Team	Event	Round robin								Tiebreaker	Rank
Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Sweden men's	Men's tournament	Finland W 9–2	Poland W 17–1	Norway W 4–2	West Germany W 7–3	United States W 4–2	Canada L 2–3	Switzerland W 5–2	Czechoslovakia L 0–4	Czechoslovakia W 5–3

The tournament was run in a round-robin format with nine teams participating.

Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Canada	8	7	0	1	71	14	15
United States	8	6	1	1	43	21	13
Sweden	9	7	2	0	53	22	14
Czechoslovakia	9	6	3	0	50	23	12
Switzerland	8	4	4	0	40	40	8
Poland	8	2	5	1	21	56	5
Finland	8	2	6	0	21	60	4
West Germany	8	1	6	1	21	53	3
Norway	8	0	8	0	15	46	0

Sweden 9–2 Finland
Sweden 17–1 Poland
Norway 2–4 Sweden
Sweden 7–3 Germany FR
Sweden 4–2 USA
Canada 3–2 Sweden
Sweden 5–2 Switzerland
Czechoslovakia 4–0 Sweden
Sweden 5–3 Czechoslovakia ¹

¹ Sweden and Czechoslovakia were tied with identical record and goal differentials, so a tie breaker game was played.

Bronze:

Sweden

Göte Almqvist
Hans Andersson
Stig Andersson
Åke Andersson
Lasse Björn
Göte Blomqvist
Thord Flodqvist
Erik Johansson
Gösta Johansson
Rune Johansson
Sven "Tumba" Johansson
Åke Lassas
Holger Nurmela
Lars Pettersson
Lars Svensson
Sven Thunman
Hans Öberg

Nordic combined

Events:

18 km cross-country skiing
normal hill ski jumping

The cross-country skiing part of this event was combined with the main medal event, meaning that athletes competing here were skiing for two disciplines at the same time. Details can be found above in this article, in the cross-country skiing section.

The ski jumping (normal hill) event was held separate from the main medal event of ski jumping, results can be found in the table below (athletes were allowed to perform three jumps, the best two jumps were counted and are shown here).

Athlete	Event	Cross-country		Ski jumping				Total
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Lars-Erik Efverström	Individual	196.667	17	59.5	60.5	193.0	15	389.667	17
Erik Elmsäter		198.667	16	61.0	62.0	199.0	11	397.667	13

Ski jumping

Athlete	Event	Jump 1			Jump 2			Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Thure Lindgren	Normal hill	63.0 (fall)	72.0	40	62.5	103.5	10	175.5	40
Hans Nordin		63.5	104.5	12	61.5	102.0	13	206.5	11
Karl Holmström		67.0	110.0	5	65.5	109.5	2	219.5
Bror Östman		66.5	110.0	5	65.0 (fall)	77.0	43	187.0	32

Speed skating

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Bengt Malmsten	46.6	31
	Stig H Lindberg	45.9	25
	Gunnar Ström	45.6	23
	Mats Bolmstedt	44.8	12
1500 m	John Wickström	2:27.6	26
	Gunnar Ström	2:25.8	19
	Sigvard Ericsson	2:23.4	8
	Carl-Erik Asplund	2:22.6	4
5000 m	John Wickström	8:47.2	18
	Sigvard Ericsson	8:40.0	14
	Göthe Hedlund	8:39.2	11
	Carl-Erik Asplund	8:30.7	6
10,000 m	Gunnar Hallkvist	18:20.9	20
	Sigvard Ericsson	17:52.8	13
	Göthe Hedlund	17:39.2	9
	Carl-Erik Asplund	17:16.6

References

(ed.) Rolf Petersen (1952). The Official Report of the Organising Committee of the VIth Winter Olympic Games 1952 at Oslo (PDF). Oslo. Retrieved 2008-01-31. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
"Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2008-06-10.
Olympic Winter Games 1952, full results by sports-reference.com

v t e Nations at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway
Africa	none
Asia	Japan Lebanon
America	Argentina Canada Chile United States
Europe	Austria Belgium Bulgaria Czechoslovakia Denmark Finland France Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Italy Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Spain Sweden Switzerland Yugoslavia
Oceania	Australia New Zealand