Sweden at the 1980 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	SWE
Nocname:	Swedish Olympic Committee
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	1980
Website:
Location:	Lake Placid
Competitors:	61 (49 men, 12 women)
Sports:	9
Flagbearer:	Eva Olsson, cross-country skiing
Rank:	5
Gold:	3
Silver:	0
Bronze:	1
Appearances:	auto
See also:	1906 Intercalated Games

Sweden competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
			Men's giant slalom
			Men's slalom
			Men's 15 km
	Sweden men's national ice hockey team		Men's competition

Alpine skiing

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Stig Strand	Giant Slalom	1:23.37	32	1:25.25	31	2:48.62	28
Torsten Jakobsson		1:23.24	31	1:23.18	17	2:46.42	21
Ingemar Stenmark		1:20.49	3	1:20.25	1	2:40.74
Torsten Jakobsson	Slalom	DSQ	-	-	-	DSQ	-
Stig Strand		55.64	16	DNF	-	DNF	-
Ingemar Stenmark		53.89	4	50.37	1	1:44.26

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Åsa Svedmark	Giant Slalom	1:18.90	29	1:31.47	25	2:50.37	24
Anna-Karin Hesse		1:17.24	12	1:29.78	13	2:47.02	11
Ann Melander		1:16.84	10	1:30.79	19	2:47.63	15
Anna-Karin Hesse	Slalom	DNF	-	-	-	DNF	-
Åsa Svedmark		46.06	18	45.45	9	1:31.51	12
Ann Melander		44.51	11	45.31	8	1:29.82	9

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Per Andersson	2	35:55.57	22
	Ronnie Adolfsson	3	35:14.87	15
	Sören Wikström	2	34:57.01	14

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ^2	Rank
20 km	Sven Fahlén	1'09:49.23	8	1'17:49.23	31
	Sören Wikström	1'08:13.34	5	1'13:13.34	12
	Ronnie Adolfsson	1'08:10.90	5	1'13:10.90	11

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

¹ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

² One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

Bobsleigh

See main article: Bobsleigh at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km	Sven-Erik Danielsson	43:41.21	18
	Benny Kohlberg	43:39.22	17
	Thomas Eriksson	43:11.88	11
	Thomas Wassberg	41:57.63
30 km	Stig Jäder	1'32:08.09	25
	Sven-Åke Lundbäck	1'31:31.96	17
	Benny Kohlberg	1'30:57.56	13
	Thomas Wassberg	1'28:40.35	4
50 km	Stig Jäder	DNF	-
	Erik Gustavsson	2'43:39.93	34
	Thomas Eriksson	2'36:33.85	16
	Sven-Åke Lundbäck	2'31:59.65	8

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km	Karin Lamberg-Skog	15:55.07	17
	Eva Olsson	15:48.59	12
	Marie Johansson-Risby	15:47.19	11
	Lena Carlzon-Lundbäck	15:43.04	10
10 km	Karin Lamberg-Skog	32:10.44	17
	Marie Johansson-Risby	31:48.57	15
	Lena Carlzon-Lundbäck	31:45.50	11
	Eva Olsson	31:36.08	10

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Men

Ice hockey

See main article: Ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Summary

First round - Blue Division

	Team advanced to the Final Round
	Team advanced to consolation round

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	5	4	0	1	26	7	9
	5	4	0	1	25	10	9
	5	3	2	0	34	16	6
	5	1	3	1	13	29	3
	5	1	4	0	21	30	2
	5	0	4	1	9	36	1

Final round

The top two teams from each group play the top two teams from the other group once. Points from previous games against their own group carry over, excluding teams who failed to make the medal round.

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	3	2	0	1	10	7	5
	3	2	1	0	16	8	4
	3	0	1	2	7	14	2
	3	0	2	1	7	11	1

Carried over group match:

• Sweden 2–2 USA
• Team roster
• Pelle Lindbergh
• William Löfqvist
• Sture Andersson
• Jan Eriksson
• Thomas Eriksson
• Tomas Jonsson
• Tommy Samuelsson
• Mats Waltin
• Ulf Weinstock
• Bo Berglund
• Håkan Eriksson
• Leif Holmgren
• Bengt Lundholm
• Per Lundqvist
• Harald Lückner
• Lars Molin
• Lennart Norberg
• Mats Näslund
• Dan Söderström
• Mats Åhlberg
• Head coach: Tommy Sandlin

Luge

See main article: Luge at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Men

(Men's) Doubles

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Anneli Näsström	40.987	23	41.096	22	40.999	17	40.877	17	2:43.959	19
Agneta Lindskog	40.219	13	40.547	14	40.463	13	40.388	12	2:41.617	13

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Jan Holmlund	Normal hill	75.0	101.7	71.0	93.8	195.5	34
Jan Holmlund	Large hill	75.0	26.2	DNS	-	26.2	50

Speed skating

See main article: Speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Johan Granath	1:21.44	36
	Oloph Granath	39.15	12
	Jan-Åke Carlberg	39.03	10
1000 m	Johan Granath	DNF	-
	Jan-Åke Carlberg	1:19.13	16
	Oloph Granath	1:17.74	8
1500 m	Jan Junell	2:02.11	21
	Ulf Ekstrand	2:00.23	16
	Tomas Gustafson	1:58.18	7
5000 m	Jan Junell	7:19.50	14
	Tomas Gustafson	7:16.85	12
	Ulf Ekstrand	7:13.13	8
10,000 m	Ulf Ekstrand	15:33.42	21
	Örjan Sandler	15:11.52	14
	Tomas Gustafson	15:05.18	12

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Annette Carlén-Karlsson	44.52	24
	Sylvia Filipsson	44.05	16
	Ann-Sofie Järnström	42.47	4
1000 m	Annette Carlén-Karlsson	1:28.25	10
	Sylvia Filipsson	1:28.18	9
	Ann-Sofie Järnström	1:28.10	8
1500 m	Annette Carlén-Karlsson	2:17.31	20
	Sylvia Filipsson	2:12.84	5
3000 m	Annette Carlén-Karlsson	4:52.70	18
	Sylvia Filipsson	4:40.22	7

References

• Olympic Winter Games 1980, full results by sports-reference.com