Olympic Winter Games 1924 / Participant (Sweden)

SWE

Sweden participated in the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix with a delegation of 31 athletes in 5 sports. The Swedish NOK had registered 40 athletes for the games, of which 31 took part in competitions. An athlete took part in the Olympic Games for the second time:

• Gillis Grafström (1920 figure skating)

Results: The Swedes had hopes for a medal especially in figure skating , curling and ice hockey . Curling only got the status of an official Olympic competition retrospectively in 2006, so that the silver medal won there was initially only included in the result lists as a trophy for a demonstration competition . In Chamonix, people were still convinced that all competitions held there were Olympic. In figure skating, Gillis Grafström was the only member of the Swedish team to successfully defend his title and meet the expectations placed on him. His sports mate Svea Norén could also have had a place on the podium . The vice world champion from 1922 did not arrive. Bronze in ice hockey was also originally booked. But the players around team captain Birger Holmquist messed up their second Olympic appearance when they surprisingly lost 4: 3 to Great Britain in the final round. The skiers had no chance against the Norwegian overwhelming power. Axel-Herman Nilsson , Torkel Persson , Per-Erik Hedlund , Ernst Alm and the other places between 5 and 12. Exactly the same drama in speed skating. The Finns and the Norwegians dominated the runs in such a way that Axel Blomqvist still did the best with 6th place over the 500 m.

Participants by sport

Ski Sports (10)

• Ernst Alm

  50 km cross-country skiing (6th place)

• Per Erik Hedlund

  18 km cross-country skiing (6th place), 50 km cross-country skiing (dnf)

• Menotti Jakobsson

  Nordic combined (8th place), ski jumping (7th place)

• Oskar Lindberg

  50 km cross-country skiing (8th place)

• Nils Lindh

  Nordic combined (dnf), ski jumping (9th place)

• Axel-Herman Nilsson

  Nordic combined (5th place), ski jumping (6th place)

• Torkel Persson

  18 km cross-country skiing (9th place), 50 km cross-country skiing (5th place)

• Elis Sandin

  18 km cross-country skiing (8th place)

• Ebb Schuman

  Nordic combination (dns)

• Nils Sundh

  Ski jumping (12th place)

• Erik Winnberg

  18 km cross-country skiing (10th place)

Figure skating (1)

• Gillis Grafström

  Men (gold)

• Svea Norén

  Women (dns)

Speed ​​skating (2)

• Gustaf Andersson

  500 m (dns), 1500 m (dns), 5000 m (dns), 10000 m (dns), all-around (dns)

• Eric Blomgren

  500 m (11th place), 1500 m (dns), 5000 m (12th place), 10000 m (dns), all-around (dnf)

• Axel Blomqvist

  500 m (6th place), 1500 m (13th place), 5000 m (15th place), 10000 m (dns), all-around (dnf)

Ice Hockey (10)

Ice hockey team (4th place)

• Ruben Allinger
• Wilhelm Arwe
• Erik Burman
• Birger Holmquist captain
• Gustaf Johansson
• Helge Johansson
• Karl Josefsson
• Ernst Karlberg
• Nils Molander
• Einar Olsson

Reserve: E. Eriksson, JE Eriksson, T. Lundborg, O. Mellgren, S. Mellgren, R. Rundquist, R. Tidquist

Curling (8)

Curling team (silver)

• Johan Åhlén
• Carl Kronlund
• Ture Ödlund
• Carl Petersén
• Carl-Axel Pettersson
• Erik Severin
• Karl-Erik Wahlberg
• Victor Wetterström

Medals

	gold	silver	bronze	total
Sweden	1	1	0	2

Medalist

Gold medals

• Figure skating, men: Gillis Grafström

Silver medals

• Curling: Johan Åhlén , Carl Kronlund , Ture Ödlund , Carl Petersén , Carl-Axel Pettersson , Erik Severin , Karl-Erik Wahlberg and Victor Wetterström

Bronze medals

no

Web links

• Official report of the 1924 Olympic Games (PDF file; 86.30 MB)