1960 Summer Olympics / Participant (Sweden)

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Sweden took part in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome with a delegation of 134 athletes (115 men and 19 women) in 100 competitions in 15 sports. The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was the pentathlete William Grut . The most successful athlete in Sweden with two medals was the kayak canoeist Gert Fredriksson , he won bronze over 1000 meters and, in two with Sven-Olov Sjödelius , gold over the same distance. John Ljunggren won silverin walking over 50 kilometers and freestyle swimmer Jane Cederqvist over 400 meters. At the age of 15, she was also the youngest athlete in her country. In addition, the wrestlers Gustav Freij and Hans Antonsson won bronze.

Participants by sport

Boxing

Men

• Karl Bergström
• Lars-Olof Norling

fencing

Men Göran Abrahamsson Carl-Wilhelm Engdahl Hans Lagerwall Orvar Lindwall Ulf Ling-Vannérus Berndt-Otto Rehbinder

Women Christina Lagerwall

Weightlifting

Men

• Sven Borrman

canoe

Men Ove Emanuelsson Gert Fredriksson Bronze kayak single 1000 m Gold kayak two-man 1000 m Åke Nilsson Sven-Olov Sjödelius Gold kayak two-man 1000 m Carl von Gerber

Women Else-Marie Lindmark-Ljungdahl

athletics

Men Birger Asplund Lennart Back Lennart Carlsson Östen Edlund Sten Erickson Knut Fredriksson Hans-Olof Johansson Lennart Jonsson Gunnar Tjornebo Per Knuts John Ljunggren Silver 50 km walk Kjell-Åke Nilsson Evert Nyberg Alf Petersson Stig Pettersson Åke Söderlund Erik Soderlund Location Tedenby Per-Owe Trollsås Erik Uddebom Arnold Vaide Dan Waern

Women Ingrid Almqvist Wivianne Bergh Inga-Britt Lorentzon Ulla-Britt Wieslander

Modern pentathlon

Men

• Stubborn Ericson
• Per-Erik Ritzén
• Bjorn Thofelt

Cycling

Men

• Owe Adamson
• Gunnar Göransson
• Osvald Johansson
• Gosta Pettersson

horse riding

• Olle Barkander
• Gustaf de Geer
• Per fresco
• Anders Gernandt
• Ragnar Gustafsson
• Hans Johansson
• Sune Lindbäck
• Dag Nätterqvist
• Henri Saint Cyr
• Yngve Viebke

Wrestling

Men

• Bertil Antonsson
• Hans Antonsson

  Bronze middleweight freestyle

• Åke Carlsson
• Bengt Frännfors
• Gustav Freij

  Bronze lightweight Greco-Roman

• Leif Freij
• Leopold Israelsson
• Jansson rune
• Bertil Nyström
• Viking palm
• Ragnar Svensson
• Edvin Vesterby

rowing

Men

• Andersson rune
• Stubborn Baatz
• Bengt-Åke Bengtsson
• Åke Berndtsson
• Gosta Eriksson
• Lars-Eric Gustavsson
• Ulf Gustavsson
• Kjell Hansson
• Lennart Hansson
• Per Hedenberg
• Ralph Hurtig
• Owe Lostad

shoot

• Andersson rune
• Carl Beck-Friis
• Stig Berntsson
• Walther Fröstell
• Kurt Johansson
• Kvissberg is different
• Leif Larsson
• Torsten Ullman
• Jan Wallén

swim

Men Bengt-Olov Almstedt Håkan Bengtsson Lars-Erik Bengtsson Per-Olof Ericsson Sven-Göran Johansson Per-Ola Lindberg Tommie Lindström Bernt Nilsson Bengt North Wall

Women Jane Cederqvist Silver 400 m freestyle Barbro Eriksson Karin Larsson Kristina Larsson Bibbi Segerström Inger Thorngren

sailing

• Göran Andersson
• Sune Carlsson
• Göran Crafoord
• Sten Elliot
• Per-Olof Karlsson
• Bengt Palmquist
• Bengt Sjösten
• Claes Turitz
• Christian Vinge
• Bengt Waller
• Goran Witting

do gymnastics

Men Jean Cronstedt Leif Koorn Stig Lindewall William Thoresson Kurt Wigartz Bo Wirhed

Women Lena Adler Solveig Egman-Andersson Monica Elfvin Gerola Lindahl Ulla Lindström Ewa Rydell

Diving

Men Johnny Hellström Göran Lundqvist Toivo Öhman

Women Birte Christoffersen-Hanson

Web links

• Swedish Olympic team from 1960 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )