Sweden at the 2016 Summer Paralympics explained

Npc:	SWE
Npcname:	Swedish Parasports Federation
Games:	Summer Paralympics
Year:	2016
Location:	Rio de Janeiro
Competitors:	57
Sports:	15
Flagbearer:	Maja Reichard
Rank:	49
Gold:	1
Silver:	4
Bronze:	5
Appearances:	auto

Sweden is competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016. They won ten medals; one gold, four silver and five bronze.

Medalists

Medals by sport
Sport	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9		Total
	bgcolor=#f7f6a8	1	bgcolor=#dce5e5	2	bgcolor=#ffdab9	2	5
	bgcolor=#f7f6a8	0	bgcolor=#dce5e5	1	bgcolor=#ffdab9	1	2
	bgcolor=#f7f6a8	0	bgcolor=#dce5e5	1	bgcolor=#ffdab9	0	1
	bgcolor=#f7f6a8	0	bgcolor=#dce5e5	0	bgcolor=#ffdab9	2	2
Total	bgcolor=gold	1	bgcolor=silver	4	bgcolor=#c96	5	10

Administration

At 7 September 2015, one year before the opening ceremony, the Swedish Parasports Federation nominated the first athletes for the Swedish team.^[1]

Disability classifications

See main article: Disability sport classification. Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped 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.^{[2] [3]} 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. Some sports, such as athletics, divide athletes by both the category and severity of their disabilities, other sports, for example swimming, group competitors from different categories together, the only separation being based on the severity of the disability.^[4]

Archery

See main article: Archery at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

|-|align=left|Zandra Reppe|align=left|Women's individual compound open|652|5||
L 135–142|colspan=3|Did not advance|9|}

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Jeffrey Ige	Men's shot put F20	15.30	5
Per Jonsson	Men's long jump F12	6.71	9
Tobias Jonsson	Men's 100 m T12	11.57	8	align=center colspan=2	Did not advance
	Men's long jump F12	6.97	6
Viktoria Karlsson	Women's long jump T11	4.49	7
Gunilla Wallengren	Women's 800 m T54	1:54.51	6	align=center colspan=2	Did not advance
	Women's 1500 m T54	3:30.99	7 q	3:30.14	10
	Women's 5000 m T54	12:07.88	6 q	12:20.15	10

Boccia

See main article: Boccia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

Canoe sprint

See main article: Paracanoe at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. Helene Ripa, paralympic gold and silver medallist in cross-country skiing in the 2014 Winter Paralympics qualified for her first summer paralympic games in canoe sprint.

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. With one pathway for qualification being one highest ranked NPCs on the UCI Para-Cycling male and female Nations Ranking Lists on 31 December 2014, Sweden qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, assuming they continued to meet all other eligibility requirements.^{[5] [6]} In total, Sweden secured four quota places in road cycling.

Road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Anders Bäckman	Men's road race H2	1:23:14	4
Men's time trial H2	36:04.26	4
align=left rowspan=2	Henrik Marvig	Men's road race C3	1:51:48	7
Men's time trial C3	43:13.13	10
align=left rowspan=2	Jessica Enfot	Women's road race H5	1:37:22	6
Women's time trial H5	36:48.63	9

Equestrian

See main article: Equestrian at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. The country earned an additional individual slot via the Para Equestrian Individual Ranking List Allocation method following the suspension of Russia, and France Finland not using one of their allocated spots.^[7]

Athlete	Horse	Event	Final
			Result	Rank
Louise Etzner Jakobsson	Zernard	Individual Championship test grade III	70.341
		Individual Freestyle test grade III	73.650
Anita Johnsson	Dear Friend	Individual Championship test grade Ia	70.870	8
		Individual Freestyle test grade Ia	62.050	8

Goalball

See main article: Goalball at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

Summary

Key:

Men's tournament

The men's national team qualified after finishing in third place at the 2015 IBSA World Games in Seoul.^[8] Sweden's men enter the tournament ranked 13th in the world.^[9]

Squad

Preliminary round----------------

Quarterfinal----

Semifinal----

Bronze medal match

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. Sweden have qualified one judoka for the Games.

Paratriathlon

See main article: Paratriathlon at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

Sailing

See main article: Sailing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. One pathway for qualifying for Rio involved having a boat have top seven finish at the 2015 Combined World Championships in a medal event where the country had nor already qualified through via the 2014 IFDS Sailing World Championships. Sweden qualified for the 2016 Games under this criterion in the 2.4m event with a fifteenth-place finish overall and the fifth country who had not qualified via the 2014 Championships. The boat was crewed by Fia Fjelddahl.^{[10] [11] [12]}

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

The first opportunity to qualify for shooting at the Rio Games took place at the 2014 IPC Shooting World Championships in Suhl. Shooters earned spots for their NPC. Sweden earned a qualifying spot at this event in the R1 – 10m Air Rifle standing men SH1 event as a result of Jonas Jakobsson winning a gold medal. Jakobsson set a new European record of during qualifyingin the R1 event. Sweden qualified another shooter in the R7 – 50m rifle 3 positions Men SH1 event after Jakobsson won a gold medal in this event. Joackim Norberg earned the country another spot in the P1 – 10m Air Pistol Men SH1 event.^{[13] [14] [15]}

The third opportunity for direct qualification for shooters to the Rio Paralympics took place at the 2015 IPC Shooting World Cup in Sydney, Australia. At this competition, Ellinor Axelsson Vaughn earned a qualifying spot for their country in the R5- Mixed 10m Air Rifle Prone SH2 event. Håkan Gustafsson earned a second spot for Sweden at this competition in the R7- Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions event. Lotta Helsinger claimed a third spot for Rio at this competition in the R8- Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions event.^{[14] [16]}

The last direct qualifying event for Rio in shooting took place at the 2015 IPC Shooting World Cup in Fort Benning in November. Philip Jönsson earned a qualifying spot for their country at this competition in the R4 Mixed 10m Air Rifle Standing SH2 event.^{[14] [17]}

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Semifinal		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Ellinor Axelsson Vaughn	Mixed 10 m air rifle prone SH2	627.5	26	Did not advance
Mixed 10 m air rifle standing SH2	625.7	16	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Håkan Gustafsson	Men's 10 m air rifle standing SH1	614.2	10	Did not advance
Men's 50 m air rifle 3 positions SH1	1123-25x	17	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=3	Lotta Helsinger	Mixed 50 m air rifle prone SH1	Did not start		Did not advance
Women's 10 m air rifle standing SH1	385.6	19	Did not advance
Women's 50 m rifle 3 positions SH1	550-12x	12	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=4	Martin Häll	Men's 10 m air rifle standing SH1	610.9	15	Did not advance
Men's 50 m air rifle 3 positions SH1	1115-27x	19	Did not advance
Mixed 10 m air rifle prone SH1	622.6	36	Did not advance
Mixed 50 m air rifle prone SH1	589.1	41	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=4	Jonas Jacobsson	Men's 10 m air rifle standing SH1	615.5	9	Did not advance
Men's 50 m air rifle 3 positions SH1	1138-39x	10	Did not advance
Mixed 10 m air rifle prone SH1	623.7	34	Did not advance
Mixed 50 m air rifle prone SH1	614.4	11	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Philip Jönsson	Mixed 10 m air rifle prone SH2	634.1	8 Q	83.0	8
Mixed 10 m air rifle standing SH2	632.4	5 Q	82.5	8
align=left rowspan=3	Joackim Norberg	Men's 10 m air pistol SH1	557-13x	13	Did not advance
Mixed 25 m pistol SH1	573-18x	4 Q	12	1 QG	5
Mixed 50 m pistol SH1	520-4x	16	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=3	Håkan Sköld	Men's 10 m air pistol SH1	551-12x	23	Did not advance
Mixed 25 m pistol SH1	531-7x	27	Did not advance
Mixed 50 m pistol SH1	517-4x	20	Did not advance

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Karl Forsman	400 m freestyle S6	6:04.09	10	Did not advance
100 m breaststroke SB5	1:33.47	1 Q	1:34.27
align=left rowspan=4	Mikael Fredriksson	50 m freestyle S3	52.26 NR	7 Q	55.74	8
200 m freestyle S3	4:17.70 NR	8
50 m backstroke S3	56.91	8 Q	56.53	7
150 m individual medley SM3	3:24.81	7 Q	3:28.28	7
align=left rowspan=3	Ludvig Nyrén	100 m freestyle S10	58.55	19	Did not advance
400 m freestyle S10	4:24.90	13	Did not advance
100 m butterfly S10	1:02.43	11	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align=left rowspan=4	Pernilla Lindberg	200 m freestyle S14	2:13.74	3 Q	2:12.54	4
100 m breaststroke SB14	1:23.88	7 Q	1:23.42	7
100 m backstroke S14	1:15.54	5 Q	1:15.40	5
200 m individual medley SM14	2:35.26	4 Q	2:36.30	4
align=left rowspan=6	Maja Reichard	50 m freestyle S11	31.05	2 Q	30.76 ER
100 m freestyle S11	1:11.98	6 Q	1:10.53	6
100 m backstroke S11	1:25.19	7 Q	1:21.46 NR
100 m butterfly S13	1:20.70	17	Did not advance
100 m breaststroke SB11	1:26.60
200 m individual medley SM11	2:55.80	3 Q	2:51.72 NR
align=left rowspan=5	Lina Watz	50 m freestyle S10	28.93	5 Q	29.69	8
100 m freestyle S10	1:05.74	14	Did not advance
400 m freestyle S10	4:57.62	9	Did not advance
100 m backstroke S10	1:13.27	10	Did not advance
100 m butterfly S10	1:14.50	11	Did not advance

Legend: Q=Qualified; ER=European record; NR=National record

Table tennis

See main article: Table tennis at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Group			Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Emil Andersson	Singles class 8	L 2–3	W 3–2	2 Q	W 3–1	L 0–3	align=center colspan=2	Did not advance
Linus Karlsson		W 3–2	W 3–2	1 Q	W 3–1	L 2–3	align=center colspan=2	Did not advance
Victor Sjöqvist	Singles class 3	L 0–3	L 0–3	3	align=center colspan=4	Did not advance
Alexander Öhgren		W 3–1	W 3–2	1 Q	L 0–3	align=center colspan=3	Did not advance
Victor Sjöqvist Alexander Öhgren	Team class 3	L 0–2	align=center colspan=2	Did not advance	5
Emil Andersson Linus Karlsson	Team class 6–8	align=center	W 2–0	W 2–1	L 0–2

Women

Athlete	Event	Group			Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Anna-Carin Ahlquist	Singles class 3	W 3–0	W 3–0	1 Q	align=center	W 3–2	L 1–3	W 3–0
Ingela Lundbäck	Singles class 5	L 0–3	W 3–0	2 Q	align=center	W 3–0	L 1–3	L 1–3	4
Anna-Carin Ahlquist Ingela Lundbäck	Team class 4–5	align=center	W 2–1	L 1–2	L 1–2	4

Wheelchair rugby

See main article: Wheelchair rugby at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

Summary

Key:

Sweden qualified by reaching the final of the 2015 International Wheelchair Rugby Federation European Championship.^[18]

• Team competition – one team of 12 players

RosterThe following is the Sweden roster in the wheelchair rugby tournament of the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

width=150	Name	Class.	width=200	Date of birth (age)	width=150	Club	width=150	Residence
	0.5	September 14, 2016	Köping Hillbillies	Kungsör
	0.5	September 14, 2016	Gothenburg Lions
	2.5	September 14, 2016	Rehab Alpin	Västra Frölunda
	2.5	September 14, 2016	Nacka HI
	2.5	September 14, 2016	Nacka HI	Trångsund
	1.0	September 14, 2016	Köping Hillbillies	Järfälla
	2.0	September 14, 2016	Köping Hillbillies
	0.5	September 14, 2016	Nacka HI	Upplands Väsby
	2.5	September 14, 2016	Malmö FIFH	Malmö
	3.0	September 14, 2016	Nacka HI
	3.5	September 14, 2016	Malmö FIFH	Lidingö
	1.5	September 14, 2016	Köping Hillbillies

Preliminary round------------

Fifth place Match

Wheelchair tennis

See main article: Wheelchair tennis at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. Stefan Olsson and Dan Wallin have been selected by Sweden's Paralympic Committee.^[19] Stefan Olsson qualified via the standard qualification route, while Dan Wallin qualified via a Doubles World Ranking Allocation place.^[20]

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Stefan Olsson	align=left rowspan=2	Men's singles		W 6–0, 6–3	W 6–2, 7–6	L 1–6, 6–2, 3–6	Did not advance
Dan Wallin	W 6–2, 6–2	L 1–6, 2–6	Did not advance
Stefan Olsson Dan Wallin	Men's doubles		W 6–3, 6–2	L 3–6, 1–6	Did not advance

See also

• Sweden at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Notes and References

1. Web site: Första uttagningen till Paralympics i Rio 2016. Paralympics Sweden. sv.
2. Web site: Paralympics categories explained . . 3 September 2008 . 25 December 2015.
3. News: Making sense of the categories . . 6 October 2000 . 25 December 2015.
4. News: A-Z of Paralympic classification . . 28 August 2008 . 25 December 2015.
5. Web site: CYCLING QUALIFICATION . International Paralympic Committee . 24 December 2015 . 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151225110516/http://www.rio2016.com/sites/all/iframe/infograficos/paralimpicos/ciclismo-de-estrada/pdf/cycling-paralympics.pdf . 25 December 2015 .
6. Web site: Ranking — PARA — Cycling 2014. UCI. 24 December 2015. 31 December 2014.
7. Web site: EQUESTRIAN. August 24, 2016. FEI. International Paralympic Committee. August 24, 2016.
8. Web site: Five more teams qualify for goalball competition at Rio 2016 Paralympic Games . 2016-09-04 . 2016-08-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160828171809/https://www.rio2016.com/en/news/five-more-teams-qualify-for-goalball-competition-at-rio-2016-paralympic-games . dead .
9. Web site: IBSA Goalball World Rankings. July 31, 2016. IBSA Sports. August 25, 2016. October 11, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161011193014/http://www.ibsasport.org/sports/files/600-General-IBSA-Goalball-World-Rankings---July-2016.pdf. dead.
10. Web site: Sailing Qualification . International Paralympic Committee . 25 December 2015 . 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151225182033/http://www.rio2016.com/sites/all/iframe/infograficos/paralimpicos/vela/pdf/sailing-paralympics.pdf . 25 December 2015 .
11. Web site: 2.4m. Royal Yacht Club Victoria. 25 December 2015. 2015.
12. Web site: Ten countries guarantee their place in the Rio 2016 Paralympic sailing competition . Rio 2016 Official Website . 27 August 2014 . 26 August 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140829084941/http://www.rio2016.com/en/news/news/ten-countries-guarantee-their-place-in-the-rio-2016-paralympic-sailing-competition . 29 August 2014 .
13. Web site: Shooters from 28 countries claim 63 spots at Rio 2016 Paralympic Games . Rio 2016 . 25 December 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140911172911/http://www.rio2016.com/en/news/news/shooters-from-28-countries-claim-63-spots-at-rio-2016-paralympic-games . 11 September 2014 .
14. Web site: Shooting Qualification . International Paralympic Committee . 25 December 2015 . 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151225204927/http://www.rio2016.com/sites/all/iframe/infograficos/paralimpicos/tiro-esportivo/pdf/shooting-paralympics.pdf . 25 December 2015 .
15. Web site: Official Results Book . International Paralympic Committee. 25 December 2015. 31 December 2014.
16. Web site: 2015 IPC IPC Shooting World Cup in Sydney, Australia Official Results Book . International Paralympic Committee. 26 December 2015. 20 September 2015.
17. Web site: 2015 IPC IPC Shooting World Cup in Fort Benning, United States Official Results Book . International Paralympic Committee. 26 December 2015. 8 November 2015.
18. Web site: Great Britain & Denmark remain undefeated at Euros . Jaakkola, Lauri. 17 September 2015. 27 December 2015. IWRF.
19. Web site: Sveriges trupp i Rio – Svenska Parasportförbundet och Sveriges Paralympiska Kommitté . 2016-09-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160914144632/http://www.paralympics.se/Rio2016/SverigestruppiRio/ . 2016-09-14 . dead .
20. Web site: ITF announces singles entries for Rio 2016 Paralympics. June 24, 2016. ITF Tennis. August 24, 2016.