1960 Winter Olympics / Participant (Sweden)

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Sweden took part in the VIII Winter Olympics in 1960 in the US Squaw Valley Ski Resort with a delegation of 47 athletes in six disciplines, including 41 men and 6 women. With three gold, two silver and two bronze medals, Sweden was the fifth most successful nation at the Games.

The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the ice hockey player Einar Granath .

Participants by sport

biathlon

• Sven Agge

  20 km individual: 16th place (1: 48: 21.7 h)

• Klas Lestander

  20 km individual: Gold (1: 33: 21.6 h)

• Days Lundin

  20 km individual: 12th place (1: 45: 56.3 h)

• Adolf Wiklund

  20 km individual: 19th place (1: 54: 07.8 h)

ice Hockey

Men

Andersson is different Lars Bjorn Gert Blomé Sigurd Bröms Einar Granath Sven Tumba Bengt Lindqvist Lars-Eric Lundvall Nils Nilsson

Bert-Ola Nordlander Carl-Göran Öberg Ronald Pettersson Ulf Sterner Roland Stoltz Hans Svedberg Kjell Svensson Sune Wretling

• 5th place

Speed ​​skating

Men

• Per-Olof Brogren

  500 m: 26th place (42.7 s)

  1500 m: 5th place (2: 13.1 min)

  5000 m: 14th place (8: 18.0 min)

  10,000 m: 15th place (16: 49.3 min)

• Olle Dahlberg

  500 m: 30th place (43.1 s)

  1500 m: 18th place (2: 18.3 min)

  5000 m: 13th place (8: 17.0 min)

  10,000 m: 7th place (16: 34.6 min)

• Gunnar Sjölin

  500 m: 33rd place (43.4 s)

  1500 m: 15th place (2: 16.5 min)

• Hans Wilhelmsson

  500 m: 4th place (40.5 s)

• Bo Karenus

  1500 m: 28th place (2: 21.1 min)

• Kjell Backman

  5000 m: 12th place (8: 16.0 min)

  10,000 m: bronze (16: 14.2 min)

• Ivar Nilsson

  5000 m: 7th place (8: 09.1 min)

  10,000 m: 4th place (16: 26.0 min)

Women

• Elsa Einarsson

  500 m: race not finished

  1000 m: 12th place (1: 38.0 min)

  1500 m: 9th place (2: 32.9 min)

  3000 m: 11th place (5: 32.2 min)

• Christina Lindblom-Scherling

  500 m: 15th place (48.7 s)

  1000 m: 11th place (1: 37.5 min)

  1500 m: 7th place (2: 31.5 min)

  3000 m: 5th place (5: 25.5 min)

Nordic combination

• Lars Dahlqvist

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 8th place (436.532)

• Bengt Eriksson

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 10th place (433,710)

Cross-country skiing

Men

• Sixten Jernberg

  15 km: Silver (51: 58.6 min)

  30 km: Gold (1: 51: 03.9 h)

  50 km: 5th place (3:05:18 h)

  4 × 10 km relay: 4th place (2: 21: 31.8 h)

• Per-Erik Larsson

  15 km: 17th place (53: 49.8 min)

• Rolf Rämgård

  15 km: 8th place (52: 47.3 min)

  30 km: Silver (1: 51: 16.9 h)

  50 km: Bronze (3:02: 46.7 h)

• Janne Stefansson

  15 km: 7th place (52: 41.0 min)

  4 × 10 km relay: 4th place (2: 21: 31.8 h)

• Allan Andersson

  30 km: 13th place (1: 57: 09.9 h)

• Lennart Larsson

  30 km: 5th place (1: 53: 53.2 h)

  50 km: 4th place (3: 03: 27.9 h)

  4 × 10 km relay: 4th place (2: 21: 31.8 h)

• Assar Rönnlund

  50 km: 12th place (3: 09: 46.6 h)

• Lars Olsson

  4 × 10 km relay: 4th place (2: 21: 31.8 h)

Women

• Irma Johansson

  10 km: 8th place (41: 08.3 min)

  3 × 5 km relay: Gold (1: 04: 21.4 h)

• Barbro Martinsson

  10 km: 7th place (41: 06.2 min)

• Sonja Edström-Ruthström

  10 km: 5th place (40: 35.5 min)

  3 × 5 km relay: Gold (1: 04: 21.4 h)

• Britt Strandberg

  10 km: 10th place (42: 06.8 min)

  3 × 5 km relay: Gold (1: 04: 21.4 h)

Ski jumping

• Bengt Eriksson

  Normal hill: 19th place (202.0)

• Inge Lindqvist

  Normal hill: 29th place (190.1)

• Kjell Sjöberg

  Normal hill: 45th place (127.9)

• Rolf Strandberg

  Normal hill: 18th place (204.8)

Web links

• Sweden at the 1960 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )