1952 Winter Olympics / Participant (Sweden)

SWE

-	-	4th

Sweden participated in the VI. 1952 Winter Olympics in the Norwegian capital Oslo with a delegation of 65 athletes in eight disciplines, including 56 men and 9 women. With four bronze medals, Sweden was the tenth best nation at these games.

The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the Nordic combined athlete Erik Elmsäter .

Participants by sport

bob

Men, twos

• Olle Axelsson , Jan Lapidoth (SWE-1)

  8th place (5: 35.77 min)

• Kjell Holmström , Nils Landgren (SWE-2)

  15th place (5: 42.82 min)

Men, foursome

• Kjell Holmström , Felix Fernström , Nils Landgren , Jan Lapidothnson (SWE-1)

  6th place (5: 15.01 min)

• Gunnar Åhs , Börje Ekedahl , Lennart Sandin , Gunnar Garpö (SWE-2)

  7th place (5: 17.86 min)

ice Hockey

Men

God Almqvist Hans Andersson-Tvilling Stig Andersson-Tvilling Åke Andersson Lars Bjorn God Blomqvist Thord Flodqvist Erik Johansson Gosta Johansson

Johansson rune Sven Tumba Åke Lassas Holger Nurmela Lars Pettersson Lars Svensson Sven Thunman Hans Öberg

• bronze

figure skating

Couples

• Britta Lindmark & Ulf Berendt

  12th place (8,756)

Speed ​​skating

Men

• Mats Bolmstedt

  500 m: 12th place (44.8 s)

• Stig Lindberg

  500 m: 25th place (45.9 s)

• Bengt Malmsten

  500 m: 31st place (46.6 s)

• Gunnar Ström

  500 m: 23rd place (45.6 s)

  1500 m: 19th place (2: 25.8 min)

• Carl-Erik Asplund

  1500 m: 4th place (2: 22.6 min)

  5000 m: 6th place (8: 30.7 min)

  10,000 m: bronze (17: 16.6 min)

• Sigvard Ericsson

  1500 m: 8th place (2: 23.4 min)

  5000 m: 14th place (8: 40.0 min)

  10,000 m: 13th place (17: 52.8 min)

• John Wickström

  1500 m: 26th place (2: 27.6 min)

  5000 m: 18th place (8: 47.2 min)

• Göthe Hedlund

  5000 m: 11th place (8: 39.2 min)

  10,000 m: 9th place (17: 39.2 min)

• Gunnar Hallkvist

  10,000 m: 20th place (18: 20.9 min)

Nordic combination

• Lars-Erik Efverström

  Individual (normal hill / 18 km): 17th place (389.667)

• Erik Elmsäter

  Individual (normal hill / 18 km): 13th place (397.667)

Alpine skiing

Men

• John Fredriksson

  Departure: 23rd place (2: 44.5 min)

  Giant Slalom: 49th place (2: 55.9 min)

  Slalom: 24th place (2: 11.9 min)

• Sixten Isberg

  Downhill: 34th place (2: 53.4 min)

  Giant Slalom: 30th place (2: 42.3 min)

• Åke Nilsson

  Downhill: 27th place (2: 47.0 min)

  Giant Slalom: 21st place (2: 37.0 min)

  Slalom: 18th place (2: 09.5 min)

• Stig Sollander

  Departure: disqualified

  Giant Slalom: 6th place (2: 32.6 min)

  Slalom: 5th place (2: 02.6 min)

• Olle Dalman

  Slalom: 15th place (2: 08.8 min)

Women

• Kerstin Ahlqvist

  Giant Slalom: 26th place (2: 21.4 min)

  Slalom: 20th place (2: 23.3 min)

• Ingrid Englund

  Departure: 29th place (2: 01.3 min)

  Giant Slalom: 32nd place (2: 29.9 min)

  Slalom: 27th place (2: 28.7 min)

• Margareta Jacobsson

  Downhill: 25th place (1: 58.2 min)

  Giant slalom: disqualified

  Slalom: 16th place (2: 20.6 min)

• Sarah Thomasson

  Downhill: 18th place (1: 55.5 min)

  Giant Slalom: 21st place (2: 18.4 min)

  Slalom: 12th place (2: 18.3 min)

Cross-country skiing

Men

• Lars-Erik Efverström

  18 km: 58th place (1:14:19 h)

• Erik Elmsäter

  18 km: 56th place (1:13:46 h)

• Enar Josefsson

  18 km: 13th place (1:05:10 h)

  4 × 10 km relay: bronze (2:24:13 h)

• Nils Karlsson

  18 km: 5th place (1:02:56 h)

  50 km: 6th place (3:39:30 h)

• Gunnar Ostberg

  18 km: 9th place (1:03:44 h)

• Nils Täpp

  18 km: 7th place (1:03:35 h)

  4 × 10 km relay: bronze (2:24:13 h)

• Arthur Herrdin

  50 km: 13th place (3:57:46 h)

• Gunnar Eriksson

  50 km: 12th place (3:55:45 h)

• Törnkvist is different

  50 km: 10th place (3:49:22 h)

• Sigurd Andersson

  4 × 10 km relay: bronze (2:24:13 h)

• Martin Lundström

  4 × 10 km relay: bronze (2:24:13 h)

Women

• Margit Albrechtsson

  10 km: 8th place (45:05 min)

• Eivor Alm

  10 km: 9th place (45:20 min)

• Marta Norberg

  10 km: 4th place (42:53 min)

• Sonja Edström-Ruthström

  10 km: 11th place (45:41 min)

Ski jumping

• Thure Lindgren

  Normal hill: 40th place (175.5)

• Hans Nordin

  Normal hill: 11th place (206.5)

• Karl Holmström

  Normal hill: Bronze (219.5)

• Bror Ostman

  Normal hill: 32nd place (187.0)

Web links

• Sweden at the 1952 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )