# Sweden at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Sweden competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan.

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
| Gold | Sven-Åke Lundbäck | Cross-country skiing | Men's 15 km |
| Silver | Hasse Börjes | Speed skating | Men's 500 m |
| Bronze | Lars-Göran Arwidson | Biathlon | Men's 20 km |
| Bronze | Göran Claeson | Speed skating | Men's 1500 m |

## Alpine skiing
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Olle Rolén | Downhill | | | | | 1:59.28 | 34 |
| Manni Thofte | Downhill | | | | | 1:56.66 | 28 |
| Manni Thofte | Giant Slalom | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
| Olle Rolén | Giant Slalom | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
| Sven Mikaelsson | Giant Slalom | 1:37.88 | 29 | 1:43.77 | 27 | 3:21.65 | 28 |

### Men's slalom

| Athlete | Classification | Classification | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Time | Rank | Time 1 | Rank | Time 2 | Rank | Total | Rank |
| Olle Rolén | 1:47.88 | 3 | 1:01.19 | 28 | DNF | – | DNF | – |
| Sven Mikaelsson | 1:48.03 | 5 | 1:01.00 | 26 | 1:00.72 | 23 | 2:01.72 | 21 |
| Manni Thofte | DNF | – | 1:01.14 | 27 | DNF | – | DNF | – |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Lotta Sollander | Downhill | | | | | 1:42.97 | 31 |
| Lotta Sollander | Giant Slalom | | | | | DNF | – |
| Lotta Sollander | Slalom | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |

## Biathlon
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Time | Penalties | Adjusted time $^1$ | Rank |
| 20 km | Torsten Wadman | 1'17:17.56 | 13 | 1'30:17.56 | 49 |
| 20 km | Olle Petrusson | 1'16:40.58 | 12 | 1'28:40.58 | 42 |
| 20 km | Holmfrid Olsson | 1'19:28.78 | 3 | 1'22:28.78 | 21 |
| 20 km | Lars-Göran Arwidson | 1'14:27.03 | 2 | 1'16:27.03 | |
    $^1$ 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 Olle Petrusson Torsten Wadman Holmfrid Olsson | 6 | 1'56:57.40 | 5 |
    $^2$ 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 | Carl-Erik Eriksson Jan Johansson | Two-man | 1:16.68 | 9 | 1:16.81 | 10 | 1:14.08 | 4 | 1:13.83 | 2 | 5:01.40 | 6 |
| 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 | Carl-Erik Eriksson Tom Mentzer Thomas Gustafsson Jan Johansson | Four-man | 1:12.14 | 12 | 1:12.42 | 8 | 1:11.43 | 13 | 1:11.41 | 9 | 4:47.40 | 11 |

## Cross-country skiing
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 15 km | Tord Backman | 47:22.97 | 20 |
| 15 km | Lars-Göran Åslund | 46:56.23 | 18 |
| 15 km | Gunnar Larsson | 46:23.29 | 8 |
| 15 km | Sven-Åke Lundbäck | 45:28.24 | |
| 30 km | Thomas Magnuson | 1'43:26.02 | 28 |
| 30 km | Sven-Åke Lundbäck | 1'39:54.35 | 13 |
| 30 km | Lars-Göran Åslund | 1'39:45.29 | 11 |
| 30 km | Gunnar Larsson | 1'37:33.72 | 4 |
| 50 km | Gunnar Larsson | 2'51:17.56 | 20 |
| 50 km | Tord Backman | 2'48:53.51 | 13 |
| 50 km | Hans-Erik Larsson | 2'47:59.37 | 11 |
| 50 km | Lars-Arne Bölling | 2'45:06.80 | 7 |

### Men's 4 × 10 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Thomas Magnuson Lars-Göran Åslund Gunnar Larsson Sven-Åke Lundbäck | 2'07:03.60 | 4 |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 5 km | Meeri Bodelid | 18:29.07 | 33 |
| 5 km | Birgitta Lindqvist | 18:25.88 | 32 |
| 5 km | Barbro Tano | 17:54.53 | 19 |
| 5 km | Eva Olsson | 17:46.66 | 15 |
| 10 km | Birgitta Lindqvist | 37:24.76 | 28 |
| 10 km | Eva Olsson | 36:46.50 | 23 |
| 10 km | Meeri Bodelid | 36:41.52 | 19 |
| 10 km | Barbro Tano | 36:29.34 | 13 |

### Women's 3 × 5 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Meeri Bodelid Eva Olsson Birgitta Lindqvist | 51:51.84 | 8 |

## Figure skating
### Women

| Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Anita Johansson | 14 | 15 | 2349.3 | 131 | 15 |

## Ice hockey
### Summary

| Team | Event | 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 | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank |
| Sweden men's | Men's tournament | Yugoslavia W 8–1 | United States W 5–1 | Soviet Union T 3–3 | Poland W 5–3 | Czechoslovakia L 1–2 | Finland L 3–4 | 4 |

### First round

Winners (in bold) entered the medal round. Other teams played a consolation round for 7th-11th places.
| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| Sweden | 8–1 | Yugoslavia |

### Medal round

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 33 | 13 | 9 |
| 2 | United States | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 15 | 6 |
| 3 | Czechoslovakia | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 26 | 13 | 6 |
| 4 | Sweden | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 13 | 5 |
| 5 | Finland | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 24 | 4 |
| 6 | Poland | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 39 | 0 |
* Sweden 5–1 USA
* USSR 3–3 Sweden
* Sweden 5–3 Poland
* Czechoslovakia 2–1 Sweden
* Finland 4–3 Sweden
* Contestants Leif Holmqvist Christer Abrahamsson Thommy Abrahamsson Lars-Erik Sjöberg Kjell-Rune Milton Stig Östling Bert-Ola Nordlander Kenneth Ekman Tord Lundström Lars-Göran Nilsson Håkan Pettersson Håkan Wickberg Mats Åhlberg Björn Palmqvist Hans Hansson Inge Hammarström Hans Lindberg Thommie Bergman Stig-Göran Johansson Mats Lindh

## 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 |
| Sven-Olof Israelsson | Individual | 64.0 | 62.0 | 130.3 | 39 | 51:24.9 | 193.000 | 20 | 323.300 | 36 |

## Ski jumping

| Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Jump 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank |
| Anders Lundqvist | Normal hill | 71.0 | 98.3 | 68.0 | 93.5 | 191.8 | 42 |
| Rolf Nordgren | Normal hill | 82.5 | 115.7 | 74.0 | 102.1 | 217.8 | 11 |
| Anders Lundqvist | Large hill | 84.5 | 85.8 | 78.0 | 72.2 | 158.0 | 41 |
| Rolf Nordgren | Large hill | 97.5 | 105.5 | 92.5 | 98.0 | 203.5 | 11 |

## Speed skating
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Johan Granath | 40.79 | 16 |
| 500 m | Mats Wallberg | 40.41 | 9 |
| 500 m | Ove König | 40.25 | 7 |
| 500 m | Hasse Börjes | 39.69 | |
| 1500 m | Johan Granath | 2:10.21 | 16 |
| 1500 m | Göran Johansson | 2:09.66 | 15 |
| 1500 m | Johnny Höglin | 2:08.11 | 9 |
| 1500 m | Göran Claeson | 2:05.89 | |
| 5000 m | Örjan Sandler | 7:47.92 | 14 |
| 5000 m | Johnny Höglin | 7:45.68 | 12 |
| 5000 m | Göran Claeson | 7:36.17 | 4 |
| 10,000 m | Örjan Sandler | 16:04.90 | 15 |
| 10,000 m | Göran Claeson | 15:30.19 | 6 |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Sylvia Filipsson | 46.78 | 23 |
| 500 m | Ylva Hedlund | 46.24 | 18 |
| 500 m | Ann-Sofie Järnström | 45.83 | 15 |
| 1000 m | Sylvia Filipsson | 1:37.24 | 30 |
| 1000 m | Ann-Sofie Järnström | 1:35.21 | 19 |
| 1000 m | Ylva Hedlund | 1:33.82 | 14 |
| 1500 m | Ann-Sofie Järnström | 2:31.53 | 26 |
| 1500 m | Ylva Hedlund | 2:31.31 | 25 |
| 1500 m | Sylvia Filipsson | 2:29.38 | 20 |
| 3000 m | Sylvia Filipsson | 5:11.13 | 14 |