Sweden at the 1996 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	SWE
Nocname:	Swedish Olympic Committee
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1996
Website:
Location:	Atlanta
Competitors:	177 (111 men and 66 women)
Sports:	22
Flagbearer:	Jan-Ove Waldner
Rank:	29
Gold:	2
Silver:	4
Bronze:	2
Appearances:	auto
See also:	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

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
			Women's 100 m hurdles
			Women's K-2 500 m
			Star
			Men's individual
			Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay
			Men's tournament
			Women's K-4 500 m
			Men's greco-Roman 100 kg

Archery

See 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:

• Jenny Sjöwall → Round of 32, 26th place (1-1)
• Christa Backman → Round of 64, 35th place (0-1)
• Kristina Persson-Nordlander → Round of 64, 43rd place (0-1)

Men's Individual Competition:

• Magnus Petersson → Final, Silver Medal (5-1)
• Mikael Larsson → Round of 32, 21st place (1-1)
• Göran Bjerendal → Round of 64, 34th place (0-1)

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

See main article: Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Men's 400m Hurdles

• Sven Nylander

• Heat - 49.54s

• Semi Final - 48.21s

• Final - 47.98s (→ 4th place)

Men's Marathon

• Anders Szalkai - 2:24.27 (→ 64th place)

Men's Javelin Throw

• Qualification - 75.24m (→ did not advance)

Men's Hammer Throw

• Tore Gustafsson

• Qualification - 71.02m (→ did not advance)

Women's High Jump

• Kajsa Bergqvist

• Qualification - 1.90m (→ did not advance)

Badminton

See 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

See main article: Beach volleyball at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

• Tom Englen and Fredrik Petersson - 17th place overall

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Men's Light Flyweight (48 kg)

• Stefan Ström

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

Men's Bantamweight (54 kg)

• John Larbi

• First Round - Lost to Arnaldo Mesa (Cuba), 5-19

Men's Light Middleweight (71 kg)

• Roger Pettersson

• First Round - Defeated Shokhrat Kourbanov (Turkmenistan), 7-2

• Second Round - Lost to Antonio Perugino (Italy), 4-18

Men's Light Heavyweight (81 kg)

• Ismael Koné

• First Round - Defeated Ilkham Kerimov (Azerbaijan), 22-3

• Second Round - Lost to Thomas Ulrich (Germany), 9-24

Men's Heavyweight (91 kg)

• Kwamena Turkson

• 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)

• Attila Levin

• 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

See main article: Canoeing at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Road Competition

Men's Individual Time Trial

• Final - 1:08:52 (→ 18th place)
• Michael Andersson

• Final - did not finish (→ no ranking)

Women's Individual Road Race

• Final - 02:37:06 (→ 25th place)

Mountain Bike

Men's Cross Country

• Roger Persson

• Final - 2:37:17 (→ 21st place)

Diving

See main article: Diving at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Men's 3m Springboard

• Jimmy Sjödin

• Preliminary Heat - 339.93 (→ did not advance, 20th place)
• Joakim Andersson

• Preliminary Heat - 331.83 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Women's 3m Springboard

• Anna Lindberg

• Preliminary Heat - 292.02

• Semi Final - 220.29

• Final - 269.52 (→ 8th place)

Equestrianism

See main article: Equestrianism at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Fencing

See main article: Fencing at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Two fencers, one man and one woman, represented Sweden in 1996.

Men's épée

• Péter Vánky

Women's épée

• Helena Elinder

Football

See main article: Football at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Summary

Women's tournament

See main article: Football at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament.

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Annelie Nilsson Cecilia Sandell Åsa Jakobsson Annika Nessvold Kristin Bengtsson Anna Pohjanen Pia Sundhage Malin Swedberg Malin Andersson Ulrika Kalte Lena Videkull Ulrika Karlsson Camilla Svensson Maria Kun Julia Carlsson Hanna Ljungberg

Handball

See main article: Handball at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Summary

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Modern pentathlon

See main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Men's Individual Competition:

• Per-Olov Danielson - 5375 pts (→ 10th place)

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Sailing

See main article: Sailing at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Men's 50 m Freestyle

• Pär Lindström

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

Men's 100 m Freestyle

• Lars Frölander

• Heat - 49.91

• Final - scratched

Men's 200 m Freestyle

• Anders Holmertz

• Heat - 1:48.41

• Final - 1:48.42 (→ 5th place)

Men's 400 m Freestyle

• Anders Holmertz

• Heat - 3:52.27

• Final - 3:50.66 (→ 5th place)

Men's 100 m Butterfly

• Lars Frölander

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

Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay

• Fredrik Letzler, Lars Frölander, Christer Wallin, and Johan Wallberg

• Heat - 3:20.74
• Lars Frölander, Fredrik Letzler, Anders Holmertz, and Christer Wallin

• Final - 3:20.16 (→ 7th place)

Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay

• Christer Wallin, Lars Frölander, Anders Lyrbring, and Anders Holmertz

• Heat - 7:20.61
• Christer Wallin, Anders Holmertz, Lars Frölander, and Anders Lyrbring

• Final - 7:17.56 (→ Silver Medal)

Women's 50 m Freestyle

• Linda Olofsson

• Heat - 25.84

• Final - 25.63 (→ 6th place)

Women's 100 m Freestyle

• Linda Olofsson

• Heat - 56.56

• B-Final - 55.83 (→ 10th place)

Women's 200 m Freestyle

• Louise Jöhncke

• Heat - 2:01.13

• B-Final - 2:01.37 (→ 11th place)
• Malin Nilsson

• Heat - 2:04.39 (→ did not advance, 24th place)

Women's 100 m Backstroke

• Therese Alshammar

• Heat - 1:03.79

• B-Final - 1:04.15 (→ 16th place)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke

• Hanna Jaltner

• Heat - 1:10.69

• B-Final - 1:11.41 (→ 16th place)
• Maria Östling

• Heat - 1:11.58 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)

Women's 200 m Breaststroke

• Lena Eriksson

• Heat - 2:31.65

• B-Final - 2:28.87 (→ 9th place)
• Maria Östling

• Heat - 2:33.44 (→ did not advance, 21st place)

Women's 100 m Butterfly

• Johanna Sjöberg

• Heat - 1:01.01

• B-Final - 1:00.76 (→ 9th place)

Women's 200 m Individual Medley

• Louise Karlsson

• Heat - 2:16.37

• Final - 2:17.25 (→ 8th place)

Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay

• Louise Jöhncke, Johanna Sjöberg, Louise Karlsson, and Linda Olofsson

• Heat - 3:45.39
• Linda Olofsson, Louise Jöhncke, Louise Karlsson, and Johanna Sjöberg

• 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

• Therese Alshammar, Hanna Jaltner, Johanna Sjöberg, and Louise Jöhncke

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

Table tennis

See main article: Table tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Tennis

See main article: Tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Men's Singles Competition

• Thomas Enqvist

• First round - Defeated Marc-Kevin Goellner (Germany) 7-6 4-6 6-4

• Second round - Defeated Sargis Sargsian (Armenia) 4-6 7-6 6-4

• Third round - Lost to Leander Paes (India) 5-7 6-7
• Magnus Gustafsson

• First round - Defeated Ronald Agénor (Haiti) 6-2 6-4

• Second round - Lost to Greg Rusedski (Great Britain) 7-6 6-7 3-6

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Notes

• Book: The Official Report of the Centennial Olympic Games, Volume III The Competition Results . (ed.) Watkins, Ginger T. . Peachtree Publishers . Atlanta . 1997 . 1-56145-150-9 . PDF . 2008-02-05.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sweden at the 1996 Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417041210/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/SWE/summer/1996/ . dead . 2020-04-17 . 2012-02-19 . sports-reference.com.