Sweden at the 2004 Summer Paralympics

Sweden at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
IPC code	SWE
NPC	Swedish Parasports Federation
in Athens
Competitors	41 in 10 sports
Flag bearer	Lars Löfström [1]
Medals Ranked 21st	Gold 8 Silver 7 Bronze 6 Total 21
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)
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Sweden competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece. The team included 41 athletes, 32 men and 9 women. ^[2] Competitors from Sweden won 21 medals, including 8 gold, 7 silver and 6 bronze to finish 21st in the medal table. ^[3]

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Sandra Erikson	Swimming	Women's 50 m butterfly S4
Gold	Jonas Jacobsson	Shooting	Men's air rifle standing SH1
Gold	Jonas Jacobsson	Shooting	Men's free rifle 3x40 SH1
Gold	Jonas Jacobsson	Shooting	Mixed air rifle prone SH1
Gold	Jonas Jacobsson	Shooting	Mixed free rifle prone SH1
Gold	Anders Olsson	Swimming	Men's 400 m freestyle S6
Gold	Iréne Slättengren	Equestrian	Individual championship dressage GII
Gold	Iréne Slättengren	Equestrian	Individual freestyle dressage GII
Silver	Fredrik Andersson	Table tennis	Men's singles class 10
Silver	Mikael Aspegren Jimmy Björkstrand Niklas Hultgvist Oskar Kuus Mikael Rendahl Boris Samuelsson	Goalball	Men's tournament
Silver	Marléen Bengtsson-Kovacs	Table tennis	Women's singles class 6–8
Silver	Anders Grönberg	Archery	Men's W1
Silver	Thomas Johansson	Shooting	Mixed air rifle standing SH2
Silver	Tim Johansson	Athletics	Men's 200 metres T51
Silver	Madelene Nordlund	Athletics	Women's 400 metres T53
Bronze	Fredrik Andersson Magnus Andrée	Table tennis	Men's teams class 6–7
Bronze	Simon Itkonen Linus Lönnberg	Table tennis	Men's teams class 10
Bronze	Madelene Nordlund	Athletics	Women's 800 metres T53
Bronze	Anders Olsson	Swimming	Men's 50 m freestyle S6
Bronze	Anders Olsson	Swimming	Men's 100 m freestyle S6
Bronze	Viktoria Wedin	Shooting	Mixed air rifle standing SH2

Sports

Archery

Men

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
		Score	Seed	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Rank
Anders Groenberg	Men's individual W1	661	2	N/A	Bye	Hassberg  (GER) W 102-102*	Sebek  (CZE) W 99-96	Cavanagh  (GBR) L 102-108

• Anders Groenberg's quarterfinal against Germany's Eric Hassberg was decided by additional arrows. Anders won 9:9, 8:8, 8:x and went through to the semifinals.

Athletics

Men's track

Athlete	Class	Event	Heats		Semifinal		Final
			Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Tim Johansson	T51	200m	N/A				40.15
		Marathon	N/A				DNF
Christer Lenander	T38	100m	12.64	9	did not advance
Per Vesterlund	T52	800m	2:12.66	9	did not advance
		1500m	4:05.49	7 q	N/A		4:04.32	6
		5000m	N/A				14:30.33	7
		Marathon	N/A				2:26:09	5

Men's field

Athlete	Class	Event	Final
			Result	Points	Rank
Christer Lenander	F36-38	Long jump	5.59	929	8
Harald von Koch	P44	Pentathlon	3324		8

Women's track

Athlete	Class	Event	Heats		Semifinal		Final
			Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Madelene Nordlund	T53	400m	57.37 PR	1 Q	N/A		58.32
		800m	1:58.03	4 q	N/A		2:00.30

Cycling

Men's road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Michael Lindgren	Men's road race/time trial LC1	2:39:17	6

Equestrian

Athlete	Event	Total
		Score	Rank
Kerstin Englund	Mixed individual championship test grade II	68.091	6
	Mixed individual freestyle test grade II	71.389	8
Gabriella Loef	Mixed individual championship test grade III	64.720	8
	Mixed individual freestyle test grade III	71.778	6
Irene Slaettengren	Mixed individual championship test grade II	72.636
	Mixed individual freestyle test grade II	78.944
Berit Svensson	Mixed individual championship test grade III	64.560	9
	Mixed individual freestyle test grade III	68.500	10

Team

Athlete	Event	Total
		Total	Rank
Kerstin Englund Gabriella Loef Irene Slaettengren Berit Svensson	Team	410.148	4

Goalball

The men's goalball team won the silver medal after being defeated by Denmark in the gold medal final.

Players

• Mikael Aspergen
• Jimmy Bjoerkstrand
• Niklas Hultqvist
• Oskar Kuus
• Mikael Rendahl
• Boris Samuelsson

Tournament

Game	Match	Score	Rank
1	Sweden vs.   Denmark  (DEN)	3 – 3	2 Q
2	Sweden vs.   United States  (USA)	1 – 1
3	Sweden vs.   Canada  (CAN)	4 – 4
4	Sweden vs.   Germany  (GER)	3 – 1
5	Sweden vs.   Greece  (GRE)	10 – 5
Quarterfinals	Sweden vs.   Finland  (FIN)	5 – 1	W
Semifinals	Sweden vs.   Canada  (CAN)	5 – 3	W
Gold medal final	Sweden vs.   Denmark  (DEN)	5 – 7

Shooting

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank
Jonas Jacobsson	Men's 10m air rifle standing SH1	593 =WR	1 Q	100.4	693.4
	Men's 50m rifle 3 positions SH1	1162 WR	1 Q	99.1	1261.1 WR
	Mixed 10m air rifle prone SH1	600 =WR	1 Q	105.3	705.3
	Mixed 50m rifle prone SH1	597 WR	1 Q	104.4	701.4 WR
Thomas Johansson	Mixed 10m air rifle prone SH1	600 =WR	1 Q	103.9	703.9	4
	Mixed 10m air rifle standing SH2	598	4 Q	105.4	703.4
	Mixed 50m rifle prone SH1	577	23	did not advance
Kenneth Pettersson	Men's 10m air pistol SH1	558	10	did not advance
	Mixed 25m pistol SH1	560	8 Q	88.5	648.5	8
	Mixed 50m pistol SH1	495	24	did not advance
Bjorn Samuelsson	Men's 10m air rifle standing SH1	555	22	did not advance
	Men's 50m rifle 3 positions SH1	1092	20	did not advance
	Mixed 50m rifle prone SH1	572	29	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank
Lotta Helsinger	Mixed 10m air rifle prone SH1	599	5 Q	103.7	702.7	8
	Women's 10m air rifle standing SH1	381	10	did not advance
Viktoria Wedin	Mixed 10m air rifle prone SH2	599	6 Q	104.5	703.5	7
	Mixed 10m air rifle standing SH2	599	2 Q	103.7	702.7

Swimming

Men

Athlete	Class	Event	Heats		Final
			Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Anders Olsson	S6	50m freestyle	32.71	4 Q	31.90
		100m freestyle	1:09.22	2 Q	1:09.47
		400m freestyle	5:11.63 PR	1 Q	5:03.76 WR
	SB5	100m breaststroke	1:45.69	8 Q	1:44.68	8
	SM6	200m individual medley	3:12.14	9	did not advance
Alex Racoveanu	S9	100m butterfly	1:06.53	8 Q	1:05.77	5
	SB8	100m breaststroke	1:23.74	8 Q	1:23.30	6
	SM9	200m individual medley	2:38.40	10	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Class	Event	Heats		Final
			Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Sandra Erikson	S4	50m freestyle	57.09	8 Q	56.54	7
		100m freestyle	2:12.11	8 Q	2:09.49	8
		50m butterfly	N/A		56.36 WR
	SM4	150m individual medley	4:15.07	10	did not advance

Table tennis

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries				Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Fredrik Andersson	Men's singles 10	Gaspar  (SVK) L 1-3	Puglisi  (ITA) W 3-0	Bereczki  (HUN) W 3-0	2 Q	N/A	de la Bourdonnaye  (FRA) W 3-1	Ruiz  (ESP) W 3-2	Gaspar  (SVK) L 1-3
Ernst Bolldén	Men's singles 5	Robles  (ESP) L 0-3	Nilsen  (RSA) W 3-1	Kalyvas  (GRE) W 3-0	2 Q	Chang  (TPE) L 1-3	did not advance
Patrik Hoegstedt	Men's singles 5	Kim  (KOR) L 0-3	Djurasinovic  (SCG) L 2-3	Pazaran  (MEX) L 1-3	4	did not advance
Simon Itkonen	Men's singles 6	Schmidt  (GER) L 2-3	Jensen  (DEN) L 2-3	Solis  (CHI) W 3-0	3	did not advance
Oerjan Kylevik	Men's singles 3	Piñas  (ESP) L 2–3	Wu  (TPE) W 3–1	Valka  (SVK) W 3–1	2 Q	Robin  (FRA) L 0–3	did not advance
Linus Loennberg	Men's singles 7	Wollmert  (GER) L 0-3	Qin  (CHN) L 0-3	Popov  (UKR) L 1-3	4	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries				Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Marléen Bengtsson-Kovacs	Women's singles 6-8	Ovsjannikova  (RUS) W 3–0	Darvand  (FRA) W 3–0	Munoz  (ARG) W 3–0	1 Q	Barbusova  (SVK) W 3–0	Turowska  (POL) W 3-2	Zhang  (CHN) L 1-3

Teams

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries				Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ernst Bolldén Patrik Hoegstedt Oerjan Kylevik	Men's team 5	Chinese Taipei  (TPE) L 0-3	Greece  (GRE) W 3-0	N/A	2 Q	Czech Republic  (CZE) L 1-3	did not advance
Simon Itkonen Linus Loennberg	Men's team 6-7	France  (FRA) W 3-2	Denmark  (DEN) L 2-3	Netherlands  (NED) W 3-0	3	did not advance
Magnus Andree Fredrik Andersson	Men's team 10	Czech Republic  (CZE) L 1-3	Italy  (ITA) W 3-0	Hungary  (HUN) W 3-1	2 Q	N/A	China  (CHN) L 1-3	Czech Republic  (CZE) W 3-1

Wheelchair tennis

Athlete	Class	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
			Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Niclas Larsson	Open	Men's singles	Ammerlaan  (NED) L 0–6, 0–6	did not advance
Stefan Olsson			Kumarasiri  (SRI) W 6–1, 6–0	Brychta  (CZE) L 5–7, 2–6	did not advance
Peter Wikstrom			Krieghofer  (AUT) W 6–3, 6–1	Plowman  (GBR) W 6–2, 6–0	Kunieda  (JPN) L 3–6, 6–4, 3–6	did not advance
Stefan Olsson Peter Wikstrom		Men's doubles	N/A	Onasie  (INA) /   Sugiharto  (INA) W 6–0, 6–0	Baumgartner  (AUT) /   Legner  (AUT) W 6–4, 6–4	Jérémiasz  (FRA) /   Majdi  (FRA) L 1–6, 2–6	did not advance

See also

• Sweden at the Paralympics
• Sweden at the 2004 Summer Olympics

References

1. "Fanbärare – Svenska Parasportförbundet och Sveriges Paralympiska Kommitté". Archived from the original on 2016-10-08. Retrieved 2016-10-02.
2. "Participation Numbers Athens 2004 Paralympic Games". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
3. "Medal Standings Athens 2004 Paralympic Games". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 8 June 2011.