# Sweden at the 1968 Winter Olympics

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 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | 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 | Giant Slalom | 1:48.68 | 27 | 1:57.78 | 54 | 3:46.46 | 39 |
| Olle Rolén | Giant Slalom | 1:47.52 | 22 | 1:50.83 | 22 | 3:38.35 | 20 |
| Rune Lindström | Giant Slalom | 1:46.94 | 17 | 1:50.11 | 17 | 3:37.05 | 16 |

### Men's slalom

| Athlete | Heat 1 | Heat 1 | Heat 2 | Heat 2 | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final | 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 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | 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 |
| 20 km | Holmfrid Olsson | 1'19:01.8 | 6 | 1'25:01.8 | 20 |
| 20 km | Olle Petrusson | 1'18:31.2 | 6 | 1'24:31.2 | 19 |
| 20 km | 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 | Race | 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 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 | 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 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Total | 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 | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 15 km | Assar Rönnlund | 49:25.3 | 11 |
| 15 km | Bjarne Andersson | 48:41.1 | 6 |
| 15 km | Jan Halvarsson | 48:39.1 | 5 |
| 15 km | Gunnar Larsson | 48:33.7 | |
| 30 km | Ingvar Sandström | 1'39:47.5 | 21 |
| 30 km | Bruno Åvik | 1'39:38.1 | 20 |
| 30 km | Jan Halvarsson | 1'38:23.2 | 12 |
| 30 km | Gunnar Larsson | 1'37:48.1 | 8 |
| 50 km | Assar Rönnlund | 2'31:19.3 | 10 |
| 50 km | Jan Halvarsson | 2'30:05.9 | 7 |
| 50 km | Gunnar Larsson | 2'29:37.2 | 6 |
| 50 km | Melcher Risberg | 2'29:37.0 | 5 |

### Men's 4 × 10 km relay

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

### Women

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

### Women's 3 x 5 km relay

| Athletes | Race | 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 | 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 | 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 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Total | 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 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Total | 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 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Total | 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 1 | Jump 2 | Jump 2 | Total | 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 | Normal hill | 67.5 | 85.8 | 69.5 | 90.0 | 175.8 | 43 |
| Mats Östman | Normal hill | 67.5 | 87.8 | 64.0 | 77.7 | 165.5 | 49 |
| Kurt Elimä | Normal hill | 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 | Large hill | 85.5 | 86.1 | 73.0 | 59.1 | 145.2 | 53 |
| Kurt Elimä | Large hill | 87.5 | 88.9 | 85.5 | 85.1 | 174.0 | 37 |
| Thord Karlsson | Large hill | 91.0 | 92.3 | 87.5 | 86.9 | 179.2 | 32 |

## Speed skating
### Men

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

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | 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 |
| 1500 m | Christina Karlsson | 2:31.4 | 18 |
| 1500 m | Christina Lindblom-Scherling | 2:27.5 | 9 |
| 3000 m | Christina Karlsson | 5:17.2 | 13 |
| 3000 m | Christina Lindblom-Scherling | 5:09.8 | 7 |