| Npc: | SWE |
| Npcname: | Swedish Parasports Federation |
| Games: | Summer Paralympics |
| Year: | 1968 |
| Location: | Tel Aviv |
| Rank: | 17 |
| Gold: | 1 |
| Silver: | 6 |
| Bronze: | 4 |
| Appearances: | auto |
Sweden was one of twenty-eight nations that sent a delegation to the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv, Israel from November 4 to 13, 1968.[1] [2] The team finished seventeenth in the medal table and won eleven medals: one gold, six silver and four bronze.[3] Thirty-two Swedish athletes took part in the Games; twenty-seven men and five women.[1]
The Paralympics groups athletes' disabilities into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis.[4] [5] Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing.[6]
| Medal | Name | Sport | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lindström | Women's singles C | |||
| Johansson | Women's St. Nicholas round paraplegic | |||
| Nilsson | Men's singles A2 | |||
| Men's featherweight | ||||
| Rodaster | Women's FITA round open | |||
| Söderberg | Men's 50 m breaststroke class 5 (cauda equina) | |||
| M. Tufuesson | Women's 50 m breaststroke class 4 incomplete | |||
| M. Eden | Men's 50 m breaststroke class 4 incomplete | |||
| Olfson | Men's 50 m backstroke class 5 (cauda equina) | |||
| Söderberg | Men's 50 m freestyle class 5 (cauda equina) | |||
| M. Tufuesson | Women's 3x25 m individual medley open |
| Medals by sport | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sport | bgcolor=#f7f6a8 | bgcolor=#dce5e5 | bgcolor=#ffdab9 | Total | ||||
| bgcolor=#f7f6a8 | 1 | bgcolor=#dce5e5 | 1 | bgcolor=#ffdab9 | 0 | 2 | ||
| bgcolor=#f7f6a8 | 0 | bgcolor=#dce5e5 | 2 | bgcolor=#ffdab9 | 4 | 6 | ||
| bgcolor=#f7f6a8 | 0 | bgcolor=#dce5e5 | 2 | bgcolor=#ffdab9 | 0 | 2 | ||
| bgcolor=#f7f6a8 | 0 | bgcolor=#dce5e5 | 1 | bgcolor=#ffdab9 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Total | bgcolor=gold | 1 | bgcolor=silver | 6 | bgcolor=#c96 | 4 | 11 | |
See main article: Archery at the 1968 Summer Paralympics.
Sweden sent nine athletes to compete in archery. Two medals were won by Swedish archers; Johansson won silver in the St. Nicholas round for paraplegic women and Rodaster won silver in the women's FITA round open.[7] [8]
See main article: Dartchery at the 1968 Summer Paralympics.
The only dartchery event at the Games was the mixed pairs event which had a knockout tournament format. Two Swedish pairs entered; Luks and Andersson lost in the first round to the Australians Roy Fowler and Kevin Bawden; Johansson and Hansson also lost in the first round to Belgian pair Schelfaut and Desal.[9]
See main article: Swimming at the 1968 Summer Paralympics. Swedish swimmers won two silver and four bronze medals in Tel Aviv.[8] Two athletes won multiple medals; Soderberg won a silver in the men's 50 metres breaststroke class 5 cauda equina and a bronze in the 50 metres freestyle; Tufuesson won a bronze in the open 3×25 metres individual medley and a silver in the women's 50 metres backstroke class 4 incomplete.[8] Further bronze medals were won by Eden in the men's 50 metres breaststroke class 4 incomplete and by Olfson in men's 50 metres backstroke class 5 cauda equina.[8]
See main article: Table tennis at the 1968 Summer Paralympics.
See main article: Weightlifting at the 1968 Summer Paralympics. One man entered weightlifting events for Sweden, Benny Nilsson in the featherweight division.[8] He lifted 120 kg to win the silver medal. Gold was won by Dumont of France whose lift of 125 kg was a new world record.[10]
See main article: Wheelchair basketball at the 1968 Summer Paralympics.
Sweden entered a team into the men's wheelchair basketball. The competition featured a pool stage followed by a knockout competition. Sweden lost both their pool matches, 8–26 to Belgium and 15–35 to Canada, and did not advance to the quarterfinals.[11]