Sweden at the 1956 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	SWE
Nocname:	Swedish Olympic Committee
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	1956
Website:
Location:	Cortina d'Ampezzo
Competitors:	58 (50 men, 8 women)
Sports:	8
Flagbearer:	Bror Östman, Ski Jumping
Rank:	6
Gold:	2
Silver:	4
Bronze:	4
Appearances:	auto
See also:	1906 Intercalated Games

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

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
			Men's 50 km
			Men's 10 000 m
			Men's 15 km
			Men's 30 km
			Men's individual
			Men's 5000m
			Men's slalom
			Men's 4 × 10 km relay
			Women's 10 km
			Women's 3 x 5 km relay

Alpine skiing

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		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						3:24.9	29
Åke Nilsson						3:21.4	20
Stig Sollander						3:17.1	16
Hans Olofsson	Slalom	DSQ	-	-	-	DSQ	-
Åke Nilsson		1:39.8	29	1:57.5	11	3:37.3	14
Olle Dalman		1:34.2	20	2:03.4 (+0:05)	15	3:37.6	15
Stig Sollander		1:29.2	5	1:51.0	3	3:20.2

Women

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

Bobsleigh

See main article: Bobsleigh at the 1956 Winter Olympics.

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		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 2		Run 3		Run 4		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

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics.

Men

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

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Women

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

Women's 3 x 5 km relay

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 1956 Winter Olympics.

Women

Ice hockey

See main article: Ice hockey at the 1956 Winter Olympics.

Summary

Group C

Top two teams advanced to medal round.

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1		2	2	0	0	15	4	4
2		2	1	1	0	7	10	2
3		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		5	5	0	0	25	5	10
2		5	4	1	0	26	12	8
3		5	3	2	0	23	11	6
4		5	1	3	1	10	17	3
5		5	1	4	0	20	30	2
6		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

See main article: Nordic combined at the 1956 Winter Olympics.

Events:

normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
15 km cross-country skiing

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 1956 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1			Jump 2			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		76.0	102.5	15	75.0 fall	66.5	51	169.0	44
Bror Östman		76.0	102.5	15	75.5	102.0	13	204.5	14
Sven Pettersson		81.0	109.5	5	81.5	110.5	5	220.0	5

Speed skating

See main article: Speed skating at the 1956 Winter Olympics.

Men

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

References

Olympic Winter Games 1956, full results by sports-reference.com