1952 Summer Olympics / Participant (Sweden)

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Sweden took part in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki with a delegation of 206 athletes (183 men and 23 women) in 124 competitions in 17 sports.

Participants by sport

Boxing

Men

• Sören Danielsson
• Harry Gunnarsson
• Ingemar Johansson

  Silver heavyweight

• Roland Johansson
• Stig Sjölin

  Bronze middleweight

• Rolf Storm
• Åke Wärnström

fencing

Men

• Per Carleson

  Silver epee team

• Bo Eriksson
• Sven Fahlman

  Silver epee team

• Carl Forssell

  Silver epee team

• Bengt Ljungquist

  Silver epee team

• Lennart Magnusson

  Silver epee team

• Rolf Magnusson
• Henry Nordin
• Berndt-Otto Rehbinder

  Silver epee team

• Nils Rydström

Soccer

Men

• bronze

• Olle Åhlund
• Sylve Bengtsson
• Yngve Brodd
• Bengt Gustavsson
• Holger Hansson
• Gosta Lindh
• Gosta Löfgren
• Erik Nilsson
• Ingvar Rydell
• Lennart Samuelsson
• Gosta Sandberg
• Karl Svensson

Weightlifting

Men

• Arvid Andersson
• Andersson location
• Einar Eriksson
• Åke Hedberg
• Nils Jacobsson
• Börje Jeppsson
• Sigvard Kinnunen

canoe

Men Gunnar Åkerlund Silver kayak two-man 10,000 m Ingemar Andersson Bengt Backlund Blomqvist rune Gert Fredriksson Gold kayak single 1000 m Silver kayak single 10,000 m Lars Glassér Silver kayak two-man 1000 m Ingemar Hedberg Silver kayak two-man 1000 m Harry Lindbäck Hans Wetterström Silver kayak two-man 10,000 m

Women Anna-Lisa Ohlsson

athletics

Men Olle Åberg Arne Åhman Bertil Albertsson Åke Andersson Otto Bengtsson Per-Arne Berglund Arne Börjesson Gösta Brännström Days Ekfeldt Ingvar Ericsson Ragnar Ericzon Sven-Olov Eriksson Lars Hindmar Karl-Erik Israelsson Gustaf Jansson Bronze marathon Bertil Karlsson Stubborn Landqvist Rune Larsson Lennart Lind John Ljunggren Arne Ljungqvist Ragnar Lundberg Bronze pole vault John Mikaelsson Gold 10 km walk Eric Nilsson Roland Nilsson Roger Norman Henry Norrström Valter Nyström Gustav Östling Hans Ring Curt Soederberg Åke Söderlund Gosta Svensson Kjell Tånnander Gunnar Tjornebo Göran Widenfelt Lars-Erik Wolfbrandt Lars Ylander

Women Anna-Lisa Augustsson Solveig Ericsson Agneta Hannerz Gunhild Larking Greta Magnusson Eivor Olson Nell Sjöström

Modern pentathlon

Men

• Claes Egnell

  Silver team

• Lars Hall

  Gold single

  Silver team

• Torsten Lindqvist

  Silver team

Cycling

Men

• Stig Andersson
• Allan Carlsson
• Bengt Froebom
• Arne Johansson
• Yngve Lundh
• Stig Mårtensson
• Owe Nordqvist
• Lars Nordwall

horse riding

• Hans von Blixen-Finecke junior

  Gold Eventing Individual

  Gold eventing team

• Gustaf Adolf Boltenstern junior

  Gold dressage team

• Folke Frölén

  Gold eventing team

• Carl-Jan Hamilton
• Börje Jeppson
• Gunnar Palm
• Gehnäll Persson

  Gold dressage team

• Henri Saint Cyr

  Gold dressage singles

  Gold dressage team

• Olof Stahre

  Gold eventing team

Wrestling

Men

• Olle Anderberg

  Gold lightweight freestyle

• Gosta Andersson

  Silver welterweight Greco-Roman

• Bertil Antonsson

  Silver heavyweight freestyle

• Per Berlin

  Silver Welterweight Freestyle

• Bengt Fahlkvist
• Gustav Freij

  Silver lightweight Greco-Roman

• Axel Groenberg

  Gold Middleweight Greco-Roman

• Gunnar Håkansson
• Henry Holmberg
• Bengt Johansson
• Rolf Johansson
• Bengt Lindblad
• Karl-Erik Nilsson

  Bronze light heavyweight Greco-Roman

• Viking palm

  Gold light heavyweight freestyle

• Hubert Persson
• Edvin Vesterby

rowing

Men

• Gosta Adamsson
• Lennart Andersson
• Andersson rune
• Stubborn Baatz
• Thore Börjesson
• Curt Brunnqvist
• Ragnar Ek
• Evert Gunnarsson
• Tore Johansson
• Lars-Erik Larsson
• John Niklasson
• Ove Nilsson
• Frank Olsson
• Ivan Simonsson
• Ingemar Svensson
• Bernt Torberntsson

shoot

• Uno mountain
• Holger Erbén
• Walther Fröstell
• Knut Holmqvist

  Silver trap

• Thorleif Kockgård
• Hans Liljedahl

  Bronze trap

• Hugo Lundkvist
• Gosta Pihl
• Olof Skoldberg

  Silver running target single and double shot

• Torsten Ullman

swim

Men Olle Johansson Göran Larsson Bronze 100 m freestyle Rolf Olander Per-Olof Östrand Bronze 400 m freestyle Bengt Rask Lars Svantesson

Women Anita Andersson Maud Berglund Ulla-Britt Eklund Ingegerd Fredin Marianne Lundquist Margareta Westeson

sailing

• Erland Almkvist

  Silver kite

• Karl-Robert Ameln
• Sidney Boldt-Christmas

  Silver kite

• Börje Carlsson
• Per Gedda

  Silver kite

• Martin Hindorff
• Torsten Lord
• Lars Lundström
• Bengt Melin
• Carl-Erik Ohlson

  Bronze 5.5 m class

• Sven Salén
• Rickard Sarby

  Bronze Finn Dinghy

• Folke Wassén

  Bronze 5.5 m class

• Magnus Wassén

  Bronze 5.5 m class

do gymnastics

Men Arne Carlsson Not so Lindh Erich Peters Nils Sjöberg Börje Stattin William Thoresson Gold ground Kurt Wigartz

Women Gold apparatus gymnastics team Evy Berggren Vanja Blomberg Karin Lindberg Hjördis Nordin Göta Pettersson Ann-Sofi Pettersson-Colling Gun Roering Ingrid Sandahl

Water polo

Men

• 9th place

• Hans Hellbrand
• Erik Holm
• Stig Johansson
• Åke Julin
• Arne Jutner
• Källqvist rune
• Bo Larsson
• Roland Spångberg

Diving

Men Gunnar Johansson Frank Landqvist Toivo Öhman

Women Anna-Stina Wahlberg-Baidinger

Web links

• Swedish Olympic team from 1952 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )