# Sweden at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Sweden competed at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
| Gold | Sixten Jernberg | Cross-country skiing | Men's 50 km |
| Gold | Sigvard Ericsson | Speed skating | Men's 10 000 m |
| Silver | Sixten Jernberg | Cross-country skiing | Men's 15 km |
| Silver | Sixten Jernberg | Cross-country skiing | Men's 30 km |
| Silver | Bengt Eriksson | Nordic combined | Men's individual |
| Silver | Sigvard Ericsson | Speed skating | Men's 5000m |
| Bronze | Stig Sollander | Alpine skiing | Men's slalom |
| Bronze | Lennart Larsson Gunnar Samuelsson Per-Erik Larsson Sixten Jernberg | Cross-country skiing | Men's 4 × 10 km relay |
| Bronze | Sonja Ruthström-Edström | Cross-country skiing | Women's 10 km |
| Bronze | Irma Johansson Anna-Lisa Eriksson Sonja Ruthström-Edström | Cross-country skiing | Women's 3 x 5 km relay |

## Alpine skiing
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Lars Mattsson | Downhill | | | | | 3:50.4 | 32 |
| Stig Sollander | Downhill | | | | | 3:05.4 | 10 |
| Hans Olofsson | Giant Slalom | | | | | DSQ | – |
| Olle Dalman | Giant Slalom | | | | | 3:24.9 | 29 |
| Åke Nilsson | Giant Slalom | | | | | 3:21.4 | 20 |
| Stig Sollander | Giant Slalom | | | | | 3:17.1 | 16 |
| Hans Olofsson | Slalom | DSQ | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
| Åke Nilsson | Slalom | 1:39.8 | 29 | 1:57.5 | 11 | 3:37.3 | 14 |
| Olle Dalman | Slalom | 1:34.2 | 20 | 2:03.4 (+0:05) | 15 | 3:37.6 | 15 |
| Stig Sollander | Slalom | 1:29.2 | 5 | 1:51.0 | 3 | 3:20.2 | |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Vivi-Anne Wassdahl | Downhill | | | | | 2:08.0 | 42 |
| Ingrid Englund | Downhill | | | | | 1:51.8 | 18 |
| Eivor Berglund | Downhill | | | | | 1:51.6 | 15 |
| Vivi-Anne Wassdahl | Giant Slalom | | | | | 2:06.4 | 31 |
| Eivor Berglund | Giant Slalom | | | | | 2:04.9 | 26 |
| Ingrid Englund | Giant Slalom | | | | | 2:04.5 | 25 |
| Eivor Berglund | Slalom | DSQ | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
| Ingrid Englund | Slalom | DSQ | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
| Vivi-Anne Wassdahl | Slalom | 1:31.2 (+0:05) | 35 | 59.6 | 8 | 2:30.8 | 28 |

## Bobsleigh

| Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Run 4 | Total | Total |
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| SWE-1 | Olle Axelsson Tryggve Sundström | Two-man | 1:27.15 | 15 | 1:27.82 | 22 | 1:26.01 | 12 | 1:25.67 | 9 | 5:46.65 | 17 |
| SWE-2 | Sven Erbs Walter Aronson | Two-man | 2:29.66 | 23 | 1:25.01 | 11 | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Run 4 | Total | Total |
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| SWE-1 | Olle Axelsson Ebbe Wallén Sune Skagerling Gunnar Åhs | Four-man | 1:18.95 | 8 | 1:19.98 | 12 | 1:22.75 | 20 | 1:21.86 | 18 | 5:23.54 | 16 |
| SWE-2 | Kjell Holmström Sven Erbs Walter Aronson Jan Lapidoth | Four-man | 1:20.58 | 14 | 1:20.32 | 15 | 1:21.15 | 15 | 1:21.13 | 14 | 5:23.18 | 13 |

## Cross-country skiing
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 15 km | Gunnar Samuelsson | 52:39 | 15 |
| 15 km | Per-Erik Larsson | 51:44 | 12 |
| 15 km | Lennart Larsson | 51:03 | 8 |
| 15 km | Sixten Jernberg | 50:14 | |
| 30 km | Gunnar Samuelsson | 1'48:23 | 11 |
| 30 km | Lennart Larsson | 1'46:56 | 8 |
| 30 km | Per-Erik Larsson | 1'46:51 | 7 |
| 30 km | Sixten Jernberg | 1'44:30 | |
| 50 km | Inge Limberg | 3'10:19 | 12 |
| 50 km | Arthur Olsson | 3'10:03 | 11 |
| 50 km | Sture Grahn | 3'06:32 | 10 |
| 50 km | Sixten Jernberg | 2'50:27 | |

### Men's 4 × 10 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Lennart Larsson Gunnar Samuelsson Per-Erik Larsson Sixten Jernberg | 2'17:42 | |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 10 km | Barbro Martinsson | 41:04 | 14 |
| 10 km | Anna-Lisa Eriksson | 40:56 | 13 |
| 10 km | Irma Johansson | 40:20 | 7 |
| 10 km | Sonja Ruthström-Edström | 38:23 | |

### Women's 3 x 5 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Irma Johansson Anna-Lisa Eriksson Sonja Ruthström-Edström | 1'09:48 | |

## Figure skating
### Women

| Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Alice Lundström | 19 | 18 | 136.34 | 206 | 19 |

## Ice hockey
### Summary

| Team | Event | First round | First round | First round | Final round / Consolation round | Final round / Consolation round | Final round / Consolation round | Final round / Consolation round | Final round / Consolation round | Final round / Consolation round |
| Team | Event | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank |
| Sweden men's | Men's tournament | Soviet Union L 1–5 | Switzerland W 6–5 | 2 Q MR | Soviet Union L 1–4 | Czechoslovakia W 5–0 | United States L 1–6 | Canada L 2–6 | Germany T 1–1 | 4 |

### Group C

Top two teams advanced to medal round.
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 4 |
| 2 | Sweden | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 2 |
| 3 | Switzerland | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 16 | 0 |
* USSR 5–1 Sweden
* Sweden 6–5 Switzerland

### Games for 1st-6th places

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 5 | 10 |
| 2 | United States | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 12 | 8 |
| 3 | Canada | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 11 | 6 |
| 4 | Sweden | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 17 | 3 |
| 5 | Czechoslovakia | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 20 | 30 | 2 |
| 6 | Germany | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 35 | 1 |
* USSR 4–1 Sweden
* Sweden 5–0 Czechoslovakia
* USA 6–1 Sweden
* Canada 6–2 Sweden
* Germany (UTG) 1–1 Sweden
* Contestants Lars Svensson Yngve Casslind Bertz Zetterberg Lasse Björn Åke Lassas Vilgot Larsson Ove Malmberg Holger Nurmela Sven Johansson Sigurd Bröms Hans Öberg Ronald Pettersson Nils Nilsson Lars-Eric Lundvall Stig Andersson-Tvilling Hans Andersson-Tvilling Stig Carlsson

## Nordic combined

Events:
* normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
* 15 km cross-country skiing
| Athlete | Event | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Cross-country | Cross-country | Cross-country | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance 1 | Distance 2 | Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank | Points | Rank |
| Bengt Eriksson | Individual | 72.5 | 72.5 | 214.0 | 3 | 1'00:36 | 223.400 | 15 | 437.400 | |

## Ski jumping

| Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 1 | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Jump 2 | Jump 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Points | Rank | Distance | Points | Rank | Points | Rank |
| Holger Karlsson | Normal hill | 76.0 fall | 71.5 | 51 | 77.5 | 104.5 | 10 | 176.0 | 41 |
| Erik Styf | Normal hill | 76.0 | 102.5 | 15 | 75.0 fall | 66.5 | 51 | 169.0 | 44 |
| Bror Östman | Normal hill | 76.0 | 102.5 | 15 | 75.5 | 102.0 | 13 | 204.5 | 14 |
| Sven Pettersson | Normal hill | 81.0 | 109.5 | 5 | 81.5 | 110.5 | 5 | 220.0 | 5 |

## Speed skating
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Gunnar Ström | 44.7 | 42 |
| 500 m | Sigvard Ericsson | 44.2 | 37 |
| 500 m | Bertil Eng | 42.6 | 15 |
| 500 m | Bengt Malmsten | 41.9 | 7 |
| 1500 m | Gunnar Ström | 2:15.6 | 22 |
| 1500 m | Bengt Malmsten | 2:14.6 | 17 |
| 1500 m | Bertil Eng | 2:13.1 | 11 |
| 1500 m | Sigvard Ericsson | 2:11.0 | 6 |
| 5000 m | Sven Andersson | 8:16.9 | 22 |
| 5000 m | Gunnar Sjölin | 8:06.7 | 12 |
| 5000 m | Olle Dahlberg | 8:01.8 | 7 |
| 5000 m | Sigvard Ericsson | 7:56.7 | |
| 10,000 m | Gunnar Ström | 17:17.0 | 15 |
| 10,000 m | Sven Andersson | 17:13.5 | 13 |
| 10,000 m | Olle Dahlberg | 17:01.3 | 8 |
| 10,000 m | Sigvard Ericsson | 16:35.9 OR | |