# Sweden at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Sweden participated at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, sending 57 representatives to compete in eight different events. The team finished seventh overall, winning seven medals including three golds. Five of the team's medals came from cross-country skiing and one each from speed skating and men's ice hockey.

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
| Gold | Sixten Jernberg | Cross-country skiing | Men's 50 km |
| Gold | Karl-Åke Asph Sixten Jernberg Janne Stefansson Assar Rönnlund | Cross-country skiing | Men's 4 × 10 km relay |
| Gold | Jonny Nilsson | Speed skating | Men's 10 000 m |
| Silver | Assar Rönnlund | Cross-country skiing | Men's 50 km |
| Silver | Barbro Martinsson Britt Strandberg Toini Gustafsson | Cross-country skiing | Women's 3 x 5 km relay |
| Silver | Sweden men's national ice hockey team Kjell SvenssonLennart HäggrothGert BloméNils JohanssonRoland StoltzBert-Ola NordlanderNils NilssonRonald PetterssonLars-Eric LundvallEilert MäättäAnders AnderssonUlf SternerCarl-Göran ÖbergSven JohanssonUno ÖhrlundHans MildLennart Johansson | Ice hockey | Men's competition |
| Bronze | Sixten Jernberg | Cross-country skiing | Men's 15 km |

## Alpine skiing
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Race | Race |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
| Lars Olsson | Downhill | DNF | – |
| Rune Lindström | Downhill | DNF | – |
| Olle Rolén | Downhill | 2:31.14 | 37 |
| Bengt-Erik Grahn | Downhill | 2:29.29 | 31 |
| Bengt-Erik Grahn | Giant Slalom | DSQ | – |
| Olle Rolén | Giant Slalom | 2:00.01 | 30 |
| Rune Lindström | Giant Slalom | 1:57.06 | 24 |

### Men's slalom

| Athlete | Qualifying | Qualifying | Qualifying | Qualifying | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Time 1 | Rank | Time 2 | Rank | Time 1 | Rank | Time 2 | Rank | Total | Rank |
| Lars Olsson | 59.80 | 45 | 56.66 | 14 QF | 1:18.74 | 34 | DSQ | – | DSQ | – |
| Olle Rolén | 58.39 | 42 | 57.17 | 16 QF | 1:16.14 | 25 | 1:06.94 | 30 | 2:23.08 | 28 |
| Bengt-Erik Grahn | 54.99 | 24 QF | – | – | DSQ | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
| Rune Lindström | 54.43 | 16 QF | – | – | 1:16.00 | 24 | 1:06.68 | 28 | 2:22.68 | 26 |

## Biathlon
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Time | Misses | Adjusted time $^1$ | Rank |
| 20 km | Sten Eriksson | 1'23:27.8 | 6 | 1'35:27.8 | 25 |
| 20 km | Sven-Olof Axelsson | 1'21:13.6 | 6 | 1'33:13.6 | 17 |
| 20 km | Sture Ohlin | 1'25:46.0 | 2 | 1'29:46.0 | 12 |
| 20 km | John Güttke | 1'24:02.4 | 2 | 1'28:02.4 | 9 |
    $^1$ Two minutes added per miss.

## 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 | Kjell Lutteman Heino Freyberg | Two-man | 1:06.81 | 9 | 1:06.99 | 12 | 1:07.93 | 18 | 1:07.20 | 11 | 4:28.93 | 12 |
| SWE-2 | Jan-Erik Åkerström Carl-Erik Eriksson | Two-man | 1:08.01 | 19 | 1:11.81 | 21 | 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 | Kjell Holmström Walter Aronson Kjell Lutteman Carl-Erik Eriksson | Four-man | 1:04.26 | 8 | 1:04.04 | 4 | 1:04.56 | 8 | 1:06.38 | 16 | 4:19.24 | 11 |

## Cross-country skiing
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 15 km | Lars Olsson | 52:57.9 | 16 |
| 15 km | Assar Rönnlund | 52:35.5 | 13 |
| 15 km | Janne Stefansson | 51:46.4 | 5 |
| 15 km | Sixten Jernberg | 51:42.2 | |
| 30 km | Torsten Samuelsson | 1'33:07.8 | 9 |
| 30 km | Assar Rönnlund | 1'32:43.6 | 7 |
| 30 km | Sixten Jernberg | 1'32:39.6 | 5 |
| 30 km | Janne Stefansson | 1'32:34.8 | 4 |
| 50 km | Melcher Risberg | 2'48:03.0 | 10 |
| 50 km | Janne Stefansson | 2'45:36.6 | 4 |
| 50 km | Assar Rönnlund | 2'44:58.2 | |
| 50 km | Sixten Jernberg | 2'43:52.6 | |

### Men's 4 × 10 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Karl-Åke Asph Sixten Jernberg Janne Stefansson Assar Rönnlund | 2'18:34.6 | |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 5 km | Gun Ädel | 26:09.0 | 32 |
| 5 km | Britt Strandberg | 19:07.5 | 11 |
| 5 km | Barbro Martinsson | 18:26.4 | 7 |
| 5 km | Toini Gustafsson | 18:25.7 | 6 |
| 10 km | Gun Ädel | 44:18.9 | 17 |
| 10 km | Barbro Martinsson | 42:36.1 | 11 |
| 10 km | Toini Gustafsson | 41:41.1 | 8 |
| 10 km | Britt Strandberg | 40:54.0 | 4 |

### Women's 3 x 5 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Barbro Martinsson Britt Strandberg Toini Gustafsson | 1'01:27.0 | |

## Figure skating
### Women

| Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Ann Margret Frei-Käck | 26 | 13 | 1661.1 | 191 | 21 |

## Ice hockey
### Summary

| Team | Event | First round | Medal round / Consolation round | Medal round / Consolation round | Medal round / Consolation round | Medal round / Consolation round | Medal round / Consolation round | Medal round / Consolation round | Medal round / Consolation 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 | Italy W 12–2 | Canada L 1–3 | United States W 7–4 | Finland W 7–0 | Germany W 10–2 | Switzerland W 12–0 | Soviet Union L 2–4 | Czechoslovakia W 8–3 | |

### First round

Winners (in bold) qualified for the Group A to play for 1st-8th places. Teams, which lost their qualification matches, played in Group B for 9th-16th places.
| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| Sweden | 12–2 | Italy |

### Medal round

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 10 | 14 |
| 2 | Sweden | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 47 | 16 | 10 |
| 3 | Czechoslovakia | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 38 | 19 | 10 |
| 4 | Canada | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 32 | 17 | 10 |
| 5 | United States | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 29 | 33 | 4 |
| 6 | Finland | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 31 | 4 |
| 7 | Germany | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 13 | 49 | 4 |
| 8 | Switzerland | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 57 | 0 |
* Canada 3–1 Sweden
* Sweden 7–4 USA
* Sweden 7–0 Finland
* Sweden 10–2 Germany (UTG)
* Sweden 12–0 Switzerland
* Soviet Union 4–2 Sweden
* Sweden 8–3 Czechoslovakia
* Contestants Kjell Svensson Lennart Häggroth Gert Blomé Nils Johansson Roland Stoltz Bert-Ola Nordlander Nils Nilsson Ronald Pettersson Lars-Eric Lundvall Eilert Määttä Anders Andersson Ulf Sterner Carl-Göran Öberg Sven Johansson Uno Öhrlund Hans Mild Lennart Johansson

### Leading scorers

| Rk | Team | GP | G | A | Pts |
| 1st | Sven Johansson | 7 | 8 | 3 | 11 |
| 2nd | Ulf Sterner | 7 | 6 | 5 | 11 |
| 8th | Anders Andersson | 7 | 7 | 2 | 9 |

## Ski jumping

Athletes performed three jumps, the best two were counted and are shown here.
| Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Jump 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank |
| Holger Karlsson | Normal hill | 74.0 | 96.7 | 72.0 | 97.1 | 193.8 | 35 |
| Olle Martinsson | Normal hill | 74.0 | 98.7 | 72.0 | 96.1 | 194.8 | 32 |
| Kjell Sjöberg | Normal hill | 72.0 | 98.4 | 71.5 | 96.2 | 194.6 | 33 |
| Kurt Elimä | Normal hill | 75.0 | 104.1 | 75.0 | 104.8 | 208.9 | 7 |
| Holger Karlsson | Large hill | 73.0 | 75.4 | 64.5 | 75.7 | 151.1 | 52 |
| Kurt Elimä | Large hill | 89.5 | 100.1 | 81.5 | 95.2 | 195.3 | 29 |
| Kjell Sjöberg | Large hill | 90.0 | 103.8 | 85.0 | 110.6 | 214.4 | 5 |
| Olle Martinsson | Large hill | 84.0 | 99.7 | 76.0 | 93.8 | 193.5 | 32 |

## Speed skating
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Manne Lavås | 42.7 | 29 |
| 500 m | Bo Ollander | 42.6 | 27 |
| 500 m | Björn Lekman | 42.1 | 22 |
| 500 m | Heike Hedlund | 41.0 | 7 |
| 1500 m | Bo Ollander | 2:17.1 | 28 |
| 1500 m | Manne Lavås | 2:16.2 | 24 |
| 1500 m | Ivar Nilsson | 2:15.6 | 19 |
| 1500 m | Örjan Sandler | 2:15.4 | 18 |
| 5000 m | Örjan Sandler | 8:05.3 | 19 |
| 5000 m | Ivar Nilsson | 7:49.0 | 7 |
| 5000 m | Jonny Nilsson | 7:48.4 | 6 |
| 10,000 m | Örjan Sandler | 16:56.9 | 17 |
| 10,000 m | Ivar Nilsson | 16:40.3 | 10 |
| 10,000 m | Jonny Nilsson | 15:50.1 | |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Christina Lindblom-Scherling | 47.8 | 11 |
| 500 m | Inger Eriksson | 47.3 | 9 |
| 500 m | Gunilla Jacobsson | 46.5 | 6 |
| 1000 m | Christina Lindblom-Scherling | 1:39.5 | 14 |
| 1000 m | Inger Eriksson | 1:37.8 | 9 |
| 1000 m | Gunilla Jacobsson | 1:36.5 | 6 |
| 1500 m | Inger Eriksson | 2:32.0 | 12 |
| 1500 m | Gunilla Jacobsson | 2:31.9 | 11 |
| 1500 m | Christina Lindblom-Scherling | 2:29.4 | 6 |
| 3000 m | Gunilla Jacobsson | 5:39.2 | 15 |
| 3000 m | Inger Eriksson | 5:32.6 | 14 |
| 3000 m | Christina Lindblom-Scherling | 5:27.6 | 9 |