Sweden at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Sweden at the
1968 Winter Olympics
Sweden at the; 1968 Winter Olympics
IOC code	SWE
NOC	Swedish Olympic Committee
Website	www.sok.se (in Swedish and English)
in Grenoble
Competitors	68 (59 men, 9 women) in 9 sports
Flag bearer	Barbro Martinsson (Cross-country skiing)
Medals ; Ranked 7th	Gold3Silver2Bronze3Total8
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Last updated January 11, 2026

Sweden competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Toini Gustafsson	Cross-country skiing	Women's 5 km
Gold	Toini Gustafsson	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 km
Gold	Johnny Höglin	Speed skating	Men's 10 000 m
Silver	Jan Halvarsson Bjarne Andersson Gunnar Larsson Assar Rönnlund	Cross-country skiing	Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Silver	Britt Strandberg Toini Gustafsson Barbro Martinsson	Cross-country skiing	Women's 3 x 5 km relay
Bronze	Lars-Göran Arwidson Tore Eriksson Olle Petrusson Holmfrid Olsson	Biathlon	Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Bronze	Gunnar Larsson	Cross-country skiing	Men's 15 km
Bronze	Örjan Sandler	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
Per-Olov Richardsson	Downhill					2:09.83	43
Rune Lindström	Downhill					2:05.69	29
Lars Olsson	Giant Slalom	1:48.69	28	DSQ	–	DSQ	–
Bengt-Erik Grahn		1:48.68	27	1:57.78	54	3:46.46	39
Olle Rolén		1:47.52	22	1:50.83	22	3:38.35	20
Rune Lindström		1:46.94	17	1:50.11	17	3:37.05	16

Men's slalom

Athlete	Heat 1		Heat 2		Final
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time 1	Rank	Time 2	Rank	Total	Rank
Per-Olov Richardsson	54.83	2 QF	–	–	52.46	28	DSQ	–	DSQ	–
Bengt-Erik Grahn	54.28	1 QF	–	–	49.74	3	DSQ	–	DSQ	–
Olle Rolén	54.15	1 QF	–	–	51.77	22	DSQ	–	DSQ	–
Rune Lindström	53.85	2 QF	–	–	51.19	15	50.80	8	1:41.99	11

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ingrid Sundberg	Giant Slalom					2:08.54	35
Ingrid Sundberg	Slalom	46.91	27	52.65	23	1:39.56	21

Biathlon

Men

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ¹	Rank
20 km	Nore Westin	1'21:09.4	7	1'28:09.4	30
	Holmfrid Olsson	1'19:01.8	6	1'25:01.8	20
	Olle Petrusson	1'18:31.2	6	1'24:31.2	19
	Lars-Göran Arwidson	1'18:08.9	6	1'24:08.9	17

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

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Misses ²	Time	Rank
Lars-Göran Arwidson Tore Eriksson Olle Petrusson Holmfrid Olsson	0	2'17:26.3

² A penalty loop of 200 metres had to be skied per missed target.

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	Rolf Höglund Börje Hedblom	Two-man	1:12.77	19	1:13.17	18	1:12.62	14	1:12.63	12	4:51.19	14
SWE-2	Carl-Erik Eriksson Eric Wennerberg	Two-man	1:12.75	17	1:12.69	14	1:12.84	16	1:13.41	17	4:51.69	18

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
SWE-1	Rolf Höglund Hans Hallén Sven Martinsson Börje Hedblom	Four-man	1:12.20	16	1:09.90	16	2:22.10	16

Cross-country skiing

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km	Assar Rönnlund	49:25.3	11
	Bjarne Andersson	48:41.1	6
	Jan Halvarsson	48:39.1	5
	Gunnar Larsson	48:33.7
30 km	Ingvar Sandström	1'39:47.5	21
	Bruno Åvik	1'39:38.1	20
	Jan Halvarsson	1'38:23.2	12
	Gunnar Larsson	1'37:48.1	8
50 km	Assar Rönnlund	2'31:19.3	10
	Jan Halvarsson	2'30:05.9	7
	Gunnar Larsson	2'29:37.2	6
	Melcher Risberg	2'29:37.0	5

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Jan Halvarsson Bjarne Andersson Gunnar Larsson Assar Rönnlund	2'10:13.2

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
5 km	Barbro Tano	17:35.8	18
	Britt Strandberg	17:25.8	15
	Barbro Martinsson	16:52.9	4
	Toini Gustafsson	16:45.2
10 km	Britt Strandberg	39:25.7	15
	Barbro Tano	39:09.6	10
	Barbro Martinsson	38:07.1	4
	Toini Gustafsson	36:46.5

Women's 3 x 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Britt Strandberg Toini Gustafsson Barbro Martinsson	57:51.0

Figure skating

Men

Athlete	CF	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Thomas Callerud	27	27	1399.3	241	27

Ice hockey

Summary

Team	Event	First round	Medal round / Consolation round
Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Sweden men's	Men's tournament	BYE MR	United States W 4–3	West Germany W 5–4	East Germany W 5–2	Finland W 5–1	Soviet Union L 2–3	Canada L 0–3	Czechoslovakia T 2–2	4

Medal Round

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1	Soviet Union	7	6	1	0	48	10	12
2	Czechoslovakia	7	5	1	1	33	17	11
3	Canada	7	5	2	0	28	15	10
4	Sweden	7	4	2	1	23	18	9
5	Finland	7	3	3	1	17	23	7
6	United States	7	2	4	1	23	28	5
7	West Germany	7	1	6	0	13	39	2
8	East Germany	7	0	7	0	13	48	0

Sweden – USA 4:3 (0:0, 4:2, 0:1)
Goalscorers: Nilsson, Wickberg, Hedlund, Bengsston – Falkman, Lilyholm, Nanne.
Referees: McEvoy, Kubinec (CAN)

Sweden – West Germany 5:4 (4:3, 0:0, 1:1)
Goalscorers: Svedberg, Lundström, Nordlander, Olsson, Öberg – Kuhn, Hanig, Reif, Kopf.
Referees: Kořínek, Bucala (TCH)

Sweden – East Germany 5:2 (1:0, 2:1, 2:1)
Goalscorers: Hedlund 2, Wickberg, Lundström, Henriksson – Plotka, Fuchs.
Referees: Seglin (URS), Wycisk (POL)

Sweden – Finland 5:1 (1:0, 2:1, 2:0)
Goalscorers: Wickberg 2, Granholm, Nillsson, Bengsston – Oksanen.
Referees: Kubinec (CAN), Kořínek (TCH)

USSR – Sweden 3:2 (1:1, 0:0, 2:1)
Goalscorers: Firsov 2, Blinov – Öberg, Svedberg.
Referees: Kubinec (CAN), Kořínek (TCH)

Sweden – Canada 0:3 (0:2, 0.0, 0:1)
Goalscorers: Johnston, G. Pinder, O‘Shea.
Referees: Sillankorva (FIN), Kořínek (TCH)

Czechoslovakia – Sweden 2:2 (1:1, 1:0, 0:1)
Goalscorers: Golonka, Hrbatý – Bengtsson, Henriksson.
Referees: Trumble (USA), Sillankorva (FIN)

Contestants

4. SWEDEN
Goaltenders: Leif Holmqvist, Hans Dahllöf.
Defence: Arne Carlsson, Nils Johansson, Bert-Olov Nordlander, Lars-Erik Sjöberg, Roland Stoltz, Lennart Svedberg.
Forwards: Folke Bengtsson, Svante Granholm, Henric Hedlund, Leif Henriksson, Tord Lundström, Lars-Göran Nilsson, Roger Olsson, Björn Palmqvist, Håkan Wickberg, Carl-Göran Öberg.
Coach: Arne Strömberg.

Luge

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ivar Bjare	1:00.73	34	1:01.44	36	1:00.63	33	3:02.80	32
Per-Ulf Helander	1:00.25	31	1:01.67	37	1:01.20	34	3:03.12	34
Hans Sahlin	59.12	24	59.36	22	59.98	28	2:58.46	25
Jan Nilsson	59.00	20	59.67	27	59.24	23	2:57.91	23

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athletes	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ivar Bjare Jan Nilsson	51.04	13	50.52	13	1:41.56	13

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Berit Salomonsson	50.89	14	51.35	17	51.31	13	2:33.55	13

Ski jumping

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Ulf Norberg	Normal hill	65.5	82.6	66.0	84.4	167.0	48
Thord Karlsson		67.5	85.8	69.5	90.0	175.8	43
Mats Östman		67.5	87.8	64.0	77.7	165.5	49
Kurt Elimä		71.0	95.4	69.5	90.5	185.9	37
Mats Östman	Large hill	83.0	76.6	79.5	72.2	148.8	52
Kjell Sjöberg		85.5	86.1	73.0	59.1	145.2	53
Kurt Elimä		87.5	88.9	85.5	85.1	174.0	37
Thord Karlsson		91.0	92.3	87.5	86.9	179.2	32

Speed skating

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Manne Lavås	41.8	24
	Heike Hedlund	41.2	15
	Hasse Börjes	41.2	15
	Håkan Holmgren	40.8	8
1500 m	Göran Claeson	2:08.6	20
	Manne Lavås	2:07.8	16
	Örjan Sandler	2:07.0	10
	Johnny Höglin	2:05.2	5
5000 m	Jonny Nilsson	7:32.9	7
	Örjan Sandler	7:32.8	6
	Johnny Höglin	7:32.7	5
10,000 m	Jonny Nilsson	15:39.6	6
	Örjan Sandler	15:31.8
	Johnny Höglin	15:23.6 OR

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Ylva Hedlund	49.9	26
500 m	Christina Lindblom-Scherling	47.7	15
1000 m	Ylva Hedlund	1:37.5	19
1000 m	Christina Lindblom-Scherling	1:36.9	15
1500 m	Ylva Hedlund	2:31.5	20
	Christina Karlsson	2:31.4	18
	Christina Lindblom-Scherling	2:27.5	9
3000 m	Christina Karlsson	5:17.2	13
3000 m	Christina Lindblom-Scherling	5:09.8	7

References

Olympic Winter Games 1968, full results by sports-reference.com

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