Sweden at the 1972 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	SWE
Nocname:	Swedish Olympic Committee
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	1972
Website:
Location:	Sapporo
Competitors:	58 (49 men, 9 women)
Sports:	9
Flagbearer:	Hasse Börjes (Speed skating)
Rank:	10
Gold:	1
Silver:	1
Bronze:	2
Appearances:	auto
See also:	1906 Intercalated Games

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

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
			Men's 15 km
			Men's 500 m
			Men's 20 km
			Men's 1500 m

Alpine skiing

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Men

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

Men's slalom

Athlete	Classification		Final
	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 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Lotta Sollander	Downhill					1:42.97	31
Lotta Sollander	Giant Slalom					DNF	-
Lotta Sollander	Slalom	DNF	-	-	-	DNF	-

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ^1	Rank
20 km	Torsten Wadman	1'17:17.56	13	1'30:17.56	49
	Olle Petrusson	1'16:40.58	12	1'28:40.58	42
	Holmfrid Olsson	1'19:28.78	3	1'22:28.78	21
	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

² A penalty loop of 200 metres had to be skied per missed target.

Bobsleigh

See main article: Bobsleigh at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Men

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

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Women

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

Women's 3 × 5 km relay

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Women

Ice hockey

See main article: Ice hockey at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Summary

First round

Winners (in bold) entered the medal round. Other teams played a consolation round for 7th-11th places.

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Medal round

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1		5	4	0	1	33	13	9
2		5	3	2	0	18	15	6
3		5	3	2	0	26	13	6
4		5	2	2	1	17	13	5
5		5	2	3	0	14	24	4
6		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

See main article: Nordic combined at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping
• 15 km cross-country skiing

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Anders Lundqvist	Normal hill	71.0	98.3	68.0	93.5	191.8	42
Rolf Nordgren		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		97.5	105.5	92.5	98.0	203.5	11

Speed skating

See main article: Speed skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Men

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

Women

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

References

• Olympic Winter Games 1972, full results by sports-reference.com