Sweden at the 1956 Winter Olympics

IOC code	SWE
NOC	Swedish Olympic Committee
Website	www.sok.se (in Swedish and English)
in Cortina d'Ampezzo
Competitors	58 (50 men, 8 women) in 8 sports
Flag bearers	Bror Östman, Ski Jumping
Medals Ranked 6th	Gold 2 Silver 4 Bronze 4 Total 10
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
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Sweden competed at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Sixten Jernberg	Cross-country skiing	Men's 50 km
Gold	Sigvard Ericsson	Speed skating	Men's 10 000 m
Silver	Sixten Jernberg	Cross-country skiing	Men's 15 km
Silver	Sixten Jernberg	Cross-country skiing	Men's 30 km
Silver	Bengt Eriksson	Nordic combined	Men's individual
Silver	Sigvard Ericsson	Speed skating	Men's 5000m
Bronze	Stig Sollander	Alpine skiing	Men's slalom
Bronze	Lennart Larsson Gunnar Samuelsson Per-Erik Larsson Sixten Jernberg	Cross-country skiing	Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Bronze	Sonja Ruthström-Edström	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 km
Bronze	Irma Johansson Anna-Lisa Eriksson Sonja Ruthström-Edström	Cross-country skiing	Women's 3 x 5 km relay

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Lars Mattsson	Downhill					3:50.4	32
Stig Sollander	Downhill					3:05.4	10
Hans Olofsson	Giant Slalom					DSQ	–
Olle Dalman						3:24.9	29
Åke Nilsson						3:21.4	20
Stig Sollander						3:17.1	16
Hans Olofsson	Slalom	DSQ	–	–	–	DSQ	–
Åke Nilsson		1:39.8	29	1:57.5	11	3:37.3	14
Olle Dalman		1:34.2	20	2:03.4 (+0:05)	15	3:37.6	15
Stig Sollander		1:29.2	5	1:51.0	3	3:20.2

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Vivi-Anne Wassdahl	Downhill					2:08.0	42
Ingrid Englund						1:51.8	18
Eivor Berglund						1:51.6	15
Vivi-Anne Wassdahl	Giant Slalom					2:06.4	31
Eivor Berglund						2:04.9	26
Ingrid Englund						2:04.5	25
Eivor Berglund	Slalom	DSQ	–	–	–	DSQ	–
Ingrid Englund		DSQ	–	–	–	DSQ	–
Vivi-Anne Wassdahl		1:31.2 (+0:05)	35	59.6	8	2:30.8	28

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Olympics in Cortina. The Swedish four-man bobsleigh team strengthens its side with a cup of hot chocolate after the races. From left: Gunnar Åhs, Ebbe Wallén, Sune Skagerling and Olle Axelsson.

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
SWE-1	Olle Axelsson Tryggve Sundström	Two-man	1:27.15	15	1:27.82	22	1:26.01	12	1:25.67	9	5:46.65	17
SWE-2	Sven Erbs Walter Aronson	Two-man	2:29.66	23	1:25.01	11	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
SWE-1	Olle Axelsson Ebbe Wallén Sune Skagerling Gunnar Åhs	Four-man	1:18.95	8	1:19.98	12	1:22.75	20	1:21.86	18	5:23.54	16
SWE-2	Kjell Holmström Sven Erbs Walter Aronson Jan Lapidoth	Four-man	1:20.58	14	1:20.32	15	1:21.15	15	1:21.13	14	5:23.18	13

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Sixten Jernberg at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km	Gunnar Samuelsson	52:39	15
	Per-Erik Larsson	51:44	12
	Lennart Larsson	51:03	8
	Sixten Jernberg	50:14
30 km	Gunnar Samuelsson	1'48:23	11
	Lennart Larsson	1'46:56	8
	Per-Erik Larsson	1'46:51	7
	Sixten Jernberg	1'44:30
50 km	Inge Limberg	3'10:19	12
	Arthur Olsson	3'10:03	11
	Sture Grahn	3'06:32	10
	Sixten Jernberg	2'50:27

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Lennart Larsson Gunnar Samuelsson Per-Erik Larsson Sixten Jernberg	2'17:42

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
10 km	Barbro Martinsson	41:04	14
	Anna-Lisa Eriksson	40:56	13
	Irma Johansson	40:20	7
	Sonja Ruthström-Edström	38:23

Women's 3 x 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Irma Johansson Anna-Lisa Eriksson Sonja Ruthström-Edström	1'09:48

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Women

Athlete	CF	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Alice Lundström	19	18	136.34	206	19

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Summary

Team	Event	First round			Final round / Consolation round
Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Sweden men's	Men's tournament	Soviet Union L 1–5	Switzerland W 6–5	2 Q MR	Soviet Union L 1–4	Czechoslovakia W 5–0	United States L 1–6	Canada L 2–6	Germany T 1–1	4

Group C

Top two teams advanced to medal round.

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1	Soviet Union	2	2	0	0	15	4	4
2	Sweden	2	1	1	0	7	10	2
3	Switzerland	2	0	2	0	8	16	0

USSR 5–1 Sweden
Sweden 6–5 Switzerland

Games for 1st-6th places

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1	Soviet Union	5	5	0	0	25	5	10
2	United States	5	4	1	0	26	12	8
3	Canada	5	3	2	0	23	11	6
4	Sweden	5	1	3	1	10	17	3
5	Czechoslovakia	5	1	4	0	20	30	2
6	Germany	5	0	4	1	6	35	1

USSR 4–1 Sweden
Sweden 5–0 Czechoslovakia
USA 6–1 Sweden
Canada 6–2 Sweden
Germany (UTG) 1–1 Sweden

	Contestants Lars Svensson Yngve Casslind Bertz Zetterberg Lars Björn Åke Lassas Vilgot Larsson Ove Malmberg Holger Nurmela Sven Johansson Sigurd Bröms Hans Öberg Ronald Pettersson Nils Nilsson Lars-Eric Lundvall Stig Andersson-Tvilling Hans Andersson-Tvilling Stig Carlsson

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Events:

normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping				Cross-country			Total
Athlete	Event	Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Bengt Eriksson	Individual	72.5	72.5	214.0	3	1'00:36	223.400	15	437.400

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Jump 1			Jump 2			Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Holger Karlsson	Normal hill	76.0 fall	71.5	51	77.5	104.5	10	176.0	41
Erik Styf		76.0	102.5	15	75.0 fall	66.5	51	169.0	44
Bror Östman		76.0	102.5	15	75.5	102.0	13	204.5	14
Sven Pettersson		81.0	109.5	5	81.5	110.5	5	220.0	5

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Gunnar Ström	44.7	42
	Sigvard Ericsson	44.2	37
	Bertil Eng	42.6	15
	Bengt Malmsten	41.9	7
1500 m	Gunnar Ström	2:15.6	22
	Bengt Malmsten	2:14.6	17
	Bertil Eng	2:13.1	11
	Sigvard Ericsson	2:11.0	6
5000 m	Sven Andersson	8:16.9	22
	Gunnar Sjölin	8:06.7	12
	Olle Dahlberg	8:01.8	7
	Sigvard Ericsson	7:56.7
10,000 m	Gunnar Ström	17:17.0	15
	Sven Andersson	17:13.5	13
	Olle Dahlberg	17:01.3	8
	Sigvard Ericsson	16:35.9 OR

References

Olympic Winter Games 1956, full results by sports-reference.com

Sweden at the Olympics

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Intercalated Games	1906

Sweden hosted the 1912 Summer Olympics.

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