Sweden at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Sweden at the
1984 Winter Olympics
Sweden at the; 1984 Winter Olympics
IOC code	SWE
NOC	Swedish Olympic Committee
Website	www.sok.se (in Swedish and English)
in Sarajevo
Competitors	60 (51 men, 9 women) in 8 sports
Flag bearer	Mats Waltin (ice hockey)
Medals ; Ranked 5th	Gold4Silver2Bronze2Total8
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Sweden competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Gunde Svan	Cross-country skiing	Men's 15 km
Gold	Thomas Wassberg	Cross-country skiing	Men's 50 km
Gold	Thomas Wassberg Gunde Svan Jan Ottosson Benny Kohlberg	Cross-country skiing	Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Gold	Tomas Gustafson	Speed skating	Men's 5000m
Silver	Gunde Svan	Cross-country skiing	Men's 50 km
Silver	Tomas Gustafson	Speed skating	Men's 10,000m
Bronze	Gunde Svan	Cross-country skiing	Men's 30 km
Bronze	Sweden men's national ice hockey team Rolf Ridderwall Göte Wälitalo Michael Hjälm Peter Gradin Mats Hessel Tomas Sandström Thomas Rundqvist Bo Ericson Pelle Eklund Michael Thelvén Mats Thelin Lars-Håkan Nordin Göran Lindblom Tommy Mörth Jens Öhling Håkan Södergren Mats Waltin Håkan Nordin Thomas Åhlénd Thom Eklund Håkan Eriksson	Ice hockey	Men's competition

Alpine skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jörgen Sundqvist	Giant Slalom	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Johan Wallner		DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Gunnar Neuriesser		1:23.99	21	1:24.46	23	2:48.45	22
Niklas Henning		1:23.61	19	1:22.51	17	2:46.12	18
Bengt Fjällberg	Slalom	53.31	14	DSQ	–	DSQ	–
Lars-Göran Halvarsson		52.97	9	48.73	6	1:41.70	8
Stig Strand		52.95	8	49.00	10	1:41.95	9
Jonas Nilsson		51.52	2	48.73	6	1:40.25	4

Ingemar Stenmark, a double gold medalist in 1980, was banned from these Olympics by the International Ski Federation (FIS) for accepting promotional payments directly, rather than through the Swedish ski federation.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Biathlon

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Ronnie Adolfsson	4	33:27.0	25
	Leif Andersson	3	33:21.9	24
	Sven Fahlén	2	33:12.9	21

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ²	Rank
20 km	Ronnie Adolfsson	1'12:12.2	8	1'20:12.2	20
	Sven Fahlén	1'12:10.8	6	1'18:10.8	11
	Leif Andersson	1'13:19.3	3	1'16:19.3	8

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
Sven Fahlén Tommy Höglund Roger Westling Ronnie Adolfsson	2	1'44:28.2	10

¹ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

² One minute added 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	Carl-Erik Eriksson Nils Stefansson	Two-man	53.13	17	53.56	20	53.04	20	52.88	18	3:32.61	19

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 Tommy Johansson Ulf Åkerblom Nils Stefansson	Four-man	51.57	22	51.82	19	51.94	21	51.74	19	3:27.07	21

Cross-country skiing

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km	Torgny Mogren	43:39.4	22
	Benny Kohlberg	43:21.5	19
	Sven-Erik Danielsson	42:55.9	15
	Gunde Svan	41:25.6
30 km	Torgny Mogren	1'33:52.0	23
	Jan Ottosson	1'33:01.3	16
	Thomas Wassberg	1'32:25.3	14
	Gunde Svan	1'29:35.7
50 km	Anders Larsson	2'31:43.6	39
	Jan Ottosson	2'22:24.0	14
	Gunde Svan	2'16:00.7
	Thomas Wassberg	2'15:55.8

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Thomas Wassberg Benny Kohlberg Jan Ottosson Gunde Svan	1'55:06.3

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
5 km	Eva-Lena Karlsson	19:21.6	37
	Ann Rosendahl	18:22.8	23
	Karin Lamberg-Skog	18:02.5	16
	Marie Johansson-Risby	17:26.3	4
10 km	Stina Karlsson	34:52.4	31
	Ann Rosendahl	34:28.0	21
	Karin Lamberg-Skog	34:01.3	18
	Marie Johansson-Risby	32:34.6	6
20 km	Stina Karlsson	1'07:43.4	32
	Kristina Hugosson	1'07:40.5	31
	Ann Rosendahl	1'06:47.8	23
	Marie Johansson-Risby	1'03:31.8	5

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Karin Lamberg-Skog Kristina Hugosson Marie Johansson-Risby Ann Rosendahl	1'09:30.0	5

Figure skating

Men

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Lars Åkesson	13	15	18	31.8	17

Women

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Catarina Lindgren	17	22	20	39.0	20

Ice hockey

Summary

Team	Event	Group stage						Medal round / Placement match
Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Sweden men's	Men's tournament	Italy W 11–3	Yugoslavia W 11–0	West Germany T 1–1	Poland W 10–1	Soviet Union L 1–10	2 Q	Czechoslovakia L 0–2	Canada W 2–0

Group A

Top two teams (shaded ones) advanced to the medal round.

Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Soviet Union	5	5	0	0	42	5	10
Sweden	5	3	1	1	34	15	7
West Germany	5	3	1	1	27	17	7
Poland	5	1	4	0	16	37	2
Italy	5	1	4	0	15	31	2
Yugoslavia	5	1	4	0	8	37	2

Sweden 11-3 Italy
Sweden 11-0 Yugoslavia
Sweden 1-1 West Germany
Sweden 10-1 Poland
USSR 10-1 Sweden

Medal round

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	Pts
Soviet Union	3	3	0	16	1	6
Czechoslovakia	3	2	1	6	2	4
Sweden	3	1	2	3	12	2
Canada	3	0	3	0	10	0

Czechoslovakia 2-0 Sweden
Sweden 2-0 Canada

Carried over group match:

USSR 10-1 Sweden

Leading scorers

Rk	Team	GP	G	A	Pts
2nd	Peter Gradin	6	9	4	13

Luge

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Fredrik Wickman	47.693	21	47.850	23	47.808	24	47.579	21	3:10.930	19

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Lotta Dahlberg	42.986	12	43.327	18	42.859	15	43.181	19	2:52.353	16

Speed skating

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Hans Magnusson	1:03.08	42
	Tomas Gustafson	41.18	36
	Jan-Åke Carlberg	40.64	34
1000 m	Jan-Åke Carlberg	1:19.92	29
1000 m	Hans Magnusson	1:18.95	21
1500 m	Jan Junell	2:02.55	24
	Claes Bengtsson	2:02.04	18
	Hans Magnusson	2:01.26	16
5000 m	Jan Junell	7:29.98	18
	Claes Bengtsson	7:26.57	16
	Tomas Gustafson	7:12.28
10,000 m	Claes Bengtsson	15:14.33	16
	Jan Junell	15:12.90	15
	Tomas Gustafson	14:39.95

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Annette Carlén-Karlsson	43.65	18
1000 m	Annette Carlén-Karlsson	1:26.15	9
1500 m	Annette Carlén-Karlsson	2:10.80	12
3000 m	Annette Carlén-Karlsson	4:40.36	11

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References

↑ "Ski stars banned from Olympics". Ottawa Citizen. Reuters. November 26, 1983. p. 71.
↑ "Ruling slaps Stenmark". Bend (OR) Bulletin. UPI. November 7, 1983. p. D-4.
↑ "Winter Olympics will take place without three alpine skiers". Palm Beach Post. wire services. January 25, 1984. p. D4.
↑ "Mahre skis for gold". Observer Reporter. Washington, PA. Associated Press. February 11, 1984. p. B-8.

External links

Olympic Winter Games 1984, full results by sports-reference.com

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[ssbfol-1] "Ski stars banned from Olympics". Ottawa Citizen. Reuters. November 26, 1983. p. 71.

[rssten-2] "Ruling slaps Stenmark". Bend (OR) Bulletin. UPI. November 7, 1983. p. D-4.

[wowotth-3] "Winter Olympics will take place without three alpine skiers". Palm Beach Post. wire services. January 25, 1984. p. D4.

[obrpt-4] "Mahre skis for gold". Observer Reporter. Washington, PA. Associated Press. February 11, 1984. p. B-8.

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Africa	Egypt Morocco Senegal
America	Argentina Bolivia British Virgin Islands Canada Chile Costa Rica Mexico Puerto Rico United States
Asia	China Chinese Taipei Japan North Korea South Korea Lebanon Mongolia
Europe	Andorra Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Finland France East Germany West Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Italy Liechtenstein Monaco Netherlands Norway Poland Romania San Marino Soviet Union Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Yugoslavia
Oceania	Australia New Zealand