Sweden at the 1960 Winter Olympics

Sweden at the 1960 Winter Olympics
IOC code	SWE
NOC	Swedish Olympic Committee
Website	www.sok.se  (in Swedish and English)
in Squaw Valley
Competitors	47 (41 men, 6 women) in 6 sports
Flag bearers	Einar Granath, ice hockey
Medals Ranked 5th	Gold 3 Silver 2 Bronze 2 Total 7
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Sweden competed at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, United States.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Klas Lestander	Biathlon	Men's 20 km
Gold	Sixten Jernberg	Cross-country skiing	Men's 30 km
Gold	Irma Johansson Britt Strandberg Sonja Ruthström-Edström	Cross-country skiing	Women's 3 x 5 km relay
Silver	Sixten Jernberg	Cross-country skiing	Men's 15 km
Silver	Rolf Rämgård	Cross-country skiing	Men's 30 km
Bronze	Rolf Rämgård	Cross-country skiing	Men's 50 km
Bronze	Kjell Bäckman	Speed skating	Men's 10 000 m

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1960 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Time	Missed targets	Adjusted time 1	Rank
20 km	Adolf Wiklund	1'30:07.8	12	1'54:07.8	19
	Sven Agge	1'30:21.7	9	1'48:21.7	16
	Tage Lundin	1'33:56.3	6	1'45:56.3	12
	Klas Lestander	1'33:21.6	0	1'33:21.6

¹ Two minutes added per missed target.

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km	Per-Erik Larsson	53:49.8	17
	Rolf Rämgård	52:47.3	8
	Janne Stefansson	52:41.0	7
	Sixten Jernberg	51:58.6
30 km	Allan Andersson	1'57:09.9	13
	Lennart Larsson	1'53:53.2	5
	Rolf Rämgård	1'51:16.9
	Sixten Jernberg	1'51:03.9
50 km	Assar Rönnlund	3'09:46.6	12
	Sixten Jernberg	3'05:18.0	5
	Lennart Larsson	3'03:27.9	4
	Rolf Rämgård	3'02:46.7

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Lars Olsson Janne Stefansson Lennart Larsson Sixten Jernberg	2'21:31.8	4

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
10 km	Britt Strandberg	42:06.8	10
	Irma Johansson	41:08.3	8
	Barbro Martinsson	41:06.2	7
	Sonja Ruthström-Edström	40:35.5	5

Women's 3 x 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Irma Johansson Britt Strandberg Sonja Ruthström-Edström	1'04:21.4

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1960 Winter Olympics

Summary

Team	Event	First round			Final round / Consolation round
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Sweden men's	Men's tournament	Canada L 2–5	Japan W 19–0	2 Q FR	United States L 3–6	Soviet Union T 2–2	Czechoslovakia L 1–3	Canada L 5–6	Germany W 8–2	5

Group A

Top two teams (shaded ones) from each group advanced to the final round and played for 1st-6th places, other teams played in the consolation round.

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1	Canada	2	2	0	0	24	3	4
2	Sweden	2	1	1	0	21	5	2
3	Japan	2	0	2	0	1	38	0

• Canada 5–2 Sweden
• Sweden 19–0 Japan

Final round

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1	United States	5	5	0	0	29	11	10
2	Canada	5	4	1	0	31	12	8
3	Soviet Union	5	2	2	1	24	19	5
4	Czechoslovakia	5	2	3	0	21	23	4
5	Sweden	5	1	3	1	19	19	3
6	Germany	5	0	5	0	5	45	0

• USA 6–3 Sweden
• USSR 2–2 Sweden
• Czechoslovakia 3–1 Sweden
• Canada 6–5 Sweden
• Sweden 8–2 Germany (UTG)

Leading scorers

Rk	Team	GP	G	A	Pts
5th	Lars Lundvall	7	8	4	12
7th	Nisse Nilsson	7	7	5	12
12th	Ronald Pettersson	7	4	8	12

Contestants Anders Andersson Lasse Björn Gert Blomé Sigurd Bröms Einar Granath Sven Johansson Bengt Lindqvist Lars-Eric Lundvall Nils Nilsson Bert-Ola Nordlander Carl-Göran Öberg Ronald Pettersson Ulf Sterner Roland Stoltz Hans Svedberg Kjell Svensson Sune Wretling

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1960 Winter Olympics

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping (three jumps, best two counted and shown here)
• 15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Event	Ski jumping				Cross-country			Total
		Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Lars Dahlqvist	Individual	59.5	63.5	201.5	20	59:46.0	235.032	7	436.532	8
Bengt Eriksson		63.5	64.0	213.0	8	1'03:27.9	220.710	19	433.710	10

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1960 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Jump 1			Jump 2			Total
		Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Inge Lindqvist	Normal hill	79.5	90.4	36	79.0	99.7	26	190.1	29
Kjell Sjöberg		78.5	94.1	31	46.0 fall	33.8	45	127.9	45
Bengt Eriksson		83.5	99.6	23	78.0	102.4	18	202.0	19
Rolf Strandberg		86.5	100.0	20	81.0	104.8	11	204.8	18

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Gunnar Sjölin	43.4	33
	Olle Dahlberg	43.1	30
	Per-Olof Brogren	42.7	26
	Hans Wilhelmsson	40.5	4
1500 m	Bo Karenus	2:21.1	28
	Olle Dahlberg	2:18.3	18
	Gunnar Sjölin	2:16.5	15
	Per-Olof Brogren	2:13.1	5
5000 m	Olle Dahlberg	8:17.0	13
	Kjell Bäckman	8:16.0	12
	Ivar Nilsson	8:09.1	7
10,000 m	Olle Dahlberg	16:34.6	7
	Ivar Nilsson	16:26.0	4
	Kjell Bäckman	16:14.2

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Elsa Einarsson	DNF	–
	Christina Lindblom-Scherling	48.7	15
1000 m	Elsa Einarsson	1:38.0	12
	Christina Lindblom-Scherling	1:37.5	11
1500 m	Elsa Einarsson	2:32.9	9
	Christina Lindblom-Scherling	2:31.5	7
3000 m	Elsa Einarsson	5:32.2	11
	Christina Lindblom-Scherling	5:25.5	5

References

• Olympic Winter Games 1960, full results by sports-reference.com