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Sweden at the 1996 Summer Olympics

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Sweden at the
1996 Summer Olympics
IOC codeSWE
NOCSwedish Olympic Committee
Websitewww.sok.se (in Swedish and English)
in Atlanta
Competitors177 (111 men and 66 women) in 22 sports
Flag bearer Jan-Ove Waldner
Medals
Ranked 29th
Gold
2
Silver
4
Bronze
2
Total
8
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
1906 Intercalated Games

Sweden competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. 177 competitors, 111 men and 66 women, took part in 109 events in 22 sports.[1]

Medalists

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Medal Name Sport Event
 Gold Ludmila Engquist Athletics Women's 100 m hurdles
 Gold Susanne Gunnarsson
Agneta Andersson		 Canoeing Women's K-2 500 m
 Silver Bobby Lohse
Hans Wallén		 Sailing Star
 Silver Magnus Petersson Archery Men's individual
 Silver Lars Frölander
Anders Holmertz
Anders Lyrbring
Christer Wallin		 Swimming Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay
 Silver Sweden men's national handball team
Handball Men's tournament
 Bronze Agneta Andersson
Ingela Ericsson
Anna Olsson
Susanne Rosenqvist		 Canoeing Women's K-4 500 m
 Bronze Mikael Ljungberg Wrestling Men's greco-Roman 100 kg

Archery

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Main article: Archery at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Swedish men returned to Olympic archery with a silver medal performance by Magnus Petersson. Veteran Göran Bjerendal was defeated in the first round.

Women's Individual Competition:

Men's Individual Competition:

Women's Team Competition:

  • Sjöwall, Backman, and Persson → Quarterfinal, 7th place (1-1)

Men's Team Competition:

  • Petersson, Larsson, and Bjerendal → Quarterfinal, 6th place (1-1)

Athletics

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Main article: Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Men's 400m Hurdles

  • Heat — 49.54s
  • Semi Final — 48.21s
  • Final — 47.98s (→ 4th place)

Men's Marathon

Men's Javelin Throw

  • Qualification — 75.24m (→ did not advance)

Men's Hammer Throw

  • Qualification — 71.02m (→ did not advance)


Women's High Jump

  • Qualification — 1.90m (→ did not advance)

Badminton

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Main article: Badminton at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Jan-Eric Antonsson, Peter Axelsson, Catrine Bengtsson, Maria Bengtsson, Margit Borg, Astrid Crabo, Tomas Johansson, Pär-Gunnar Jönsson, Christine Magnusson, Jens Olsson

Beach Volleyball

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Main article: Beach volleyball at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Boxing

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Main article: Boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Men's Light Flyweight (48 kg)

  • First Round — Lost to Yosvani Aguilera (Cuba), referee stopped contest in second round

Men's Bantamweight (54 kg)

Men's Light Middleweight (71 kg)

Men's Light Heavyweight (81 kg)

Men's Heavyweight (91 kg)

  • First Round — Defeated Young-Sam Ko (South Korea), 12-8
  • Second Round — Lost to Félix Savón (Cuba), knock-out in first round

Men's Super Heavyweight (> 91 kg)

  • First Round — Bye
  • Second Round — Defeated Jean-François Bergeron (Canada), referee stopped contest in first round
  • Quarterfinals — Lost to Wladimir Klitschko (Ukraine), referee stopped contest in first round

Canoeing

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Main article: Canoeing at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Cycling

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Main article: Cycling at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Road Competition

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Men's Individual Time Trial

  • Final — 1:08:52 (→ 18th place)
  • Final — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Women's Individual Road Race

  • Final — 02:37:06 (→ 25th place)

Mountain Bike

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Men's Cross Country

  • Final — 2:37:17 (→ 21st place)

Diving

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Main article: Diving at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Men's 3m Springboard

  • Preliminary Heat — 339.93 (→ did not advance, 20th place)
  • Preliminary Heat — 331.83 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Women's 3m Springboard

  • Preliminary Heat — 292.02
  • Semi Final — 220.29
  • Final — 269.52 (→ 8th place)

Equestrianism

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Main article: Equestrianism at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Fencing

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Main article: Fencing at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Two fencers, one man and one woman, represented Sweden in 1996.

Men's épée
Women's épée

Football

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Main article: Football at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Summary

Key:

  • W – Win D – Draw L – Loss
  • A.E.T – After extra time.
  • P – Match decided by penalty-shootout.
Team Event Group Stage Quarterfinal Semifinal Final / BM
Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Rank Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Rank
Sweden women's Women's tournament  China
L 0–2 		 United States
L 1–2 		 Denmark
W 3–1 		3 — Did not qualify 6

Women's tournament

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Main article: Football at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

Handball

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Main article: Handball at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Summary

Key:

  • ET: After extra time
  • P – Match decided by penalty-shootout.
Team Event Group Stage Semifinal Final / BM / Pl.
Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Rank Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Rank
Sweden men's Men's tournament  United States
W 23–19 		  Switzerland
W 26–19 		 Russia
W 22–20 		 Kuwait
W 33–18 		 Croatia
W 27–18 		1 Q  Spain
W 25–20 		 Croatia
L 26–27 		2nd place, silver medalist(s)

Judo

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Main article: Judo at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Modern pentathlon

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Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Men's Individual Competition:

Rowing

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Main article: Rowing at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Sailing

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Main article: Sailing at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Shooting

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Main article: Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Swimming

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Main article: Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Men's 50 m Freestyle

  • Heat — 23.47 (→ did not advance, 33rd place)

Men's 100 m Freestyle

  • Heat — 49.91
  • Final — scratched

Men's 200 m Freestyle

  • Heat — 1:48.41
  • Final — 1:48.42 (→ 5th place)

Men's 400 m Freestyle

  • Heat — 3:52.27
  • Final — 3:50.66 (→ 5th place)

Men's 100 m Butterfly

  • Heat — 54.37 (→ did not advance, 19th place)

Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay

  • Heat — 3:20.74
  • Final — 3:20.16 (→ 7th place)

Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay

  • Heat — 7:20.61
  • Final — 7:17.56 (→ Silver Medal)


Women's 50 m Freestyle

  • Heat — 25.84
  • Final — 25.63 (→ 6th place)

Women's 100 m Freestyle

  • Heat — 56.56
  • B-Final — 55.83 (→ 10th place)

Women's 200 m Freestyle

  • Heat — 2:01.13
  • B-Final — 2:01.37 (→ 11th place)
  • Heat — 2:04.39 (→ did not advance, 24th place)

Women's 100 m Backstroke

  • Heat — 1:03.79
  • B-Final — 1:04.15 (→ 16th place)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke

  • Heat — 1:10.69
  • B-Final — 1:11.41 (→ 16th place)
  • Heat — 1:11.58 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)

Women's 200 m Breaststroke

  • Heat — 2:31.65
  • B-Final — 2:28.87 (→ 9th place)
  • Heat — 2:33.44 (→ did not advance, 21st place)

Women's 100 m Butterfly

  • Heat — 1:01.01
  • B-Final — 1:00.76 (→ 9th place)

Women's 200 m Individual Medley

  • Heat — 2:16.37
  • Final — 2:17.25 (→ 8th place)

Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay

  • Heat — 3:45.39
  • Final — 3:44.91 (→ 5th place)

Women's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay

  • Heat — 8:13.64 (→ did not advance, 9th place)

Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

  • Heat — 4:10.88 (→ did not advance, 10th place)

Table tennis

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Main article: Table tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Tennis

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Main article: Tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Men's Singles Competition

Weightlifting

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Main article: Weightlifting at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Wrestling

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Main article: Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Notes

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  • (ed.) Watkins, Ginger T. (1997). The Official Report of the Centennial Olympic Games, Volume III The Competition Results (PDF). Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers. ISBN 1-56145-150-9. Retrieved 2008-02-05. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)

References

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  1. ^ "Sweden at the 1996 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2012-02-19.
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