| Sweden at the 1952 Winter Olympics | |
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| IOC code | SWE |
| NOC | Swedish Olympic Committee |
| Website | www |
| in Oslo | |
| Competitors | 65 (55 men, 9 women) in 8 sports |
| Flag bearer | Erik Elmsäter (Nordic combined) |
| Medals Ranked 10th |
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| Winter Olympics appearances (overview) | |
Sweden competed at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway.
| 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 | 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 |
| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 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 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Event | Athlete | Race | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Athletes | Race | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | |
| Nils Täpp Sigurd Andersson Enar Josefsson Martin Lundström | 2'24:13 | |
| Event | Athlete | Race | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Athletes | Points | Places | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Britta Lindmark Ulf Berendt | 8.756 | 106 | 12 |
| Team | Event | Round robin | Tiebreaker | Rank | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | |||
| 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 |
1 Sweden and Czechoslovakia were tied with identical record and goal differentials, so a tie breaker game was played.
Events:
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Event | Athlete | Race | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | | |
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