Summer Paralympics 2008 / Participant (Sweden)
SWE
5 | 3 | 4th |
Sweden assumed the 64 athletes 2008 Summer Paralympics in China's Beijing in part.
The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the swimmer Anders Olson , the most successful athlete in the team of the marksman Jonas Jacobsson with three gold medals.
Participants by sport
Archery
Women
Men
Goalball
Women | Men (bronze ) |
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Judo
Women
athletics
Women
Men
horse riding
Women
Wheelchair basketball
Men |
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Wheelchair tennis
Men
- Johan Andersson , 1 × (single open, quadriplegic )
- Christer Jansson
- Stefan Olsson *
- Peter Wikström *
| * Double competitions
Men doubles (silver ) |
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shoot
Women
- Lotta Helsinger
- Viktoria Wedin , 1 × (10 meter air rifle prone, class SH2)
Men
- Håkan Gustafsson
- Jonas Jacobsson , 3 × (10 meters air rifle standing, 50 meters free rifle + 50 meters free rifle prone; class SH1)
- Kenneth Pettersson
swim
Women
Men
- Christopher Lindhe
- Anders Olsson , 2 × (100 meters + 400 meters freestyle, class S6), 1 × (50 meters freestyle, class S6)
sailing
Women
Men
Table tennis
Women
- Josefin Abrahamsson , 1 × (individual, grade 8)
- Anna-Carin Ahlqvist
- Marleen Bengtsson Kovacs
- Ingela Lundbäck
Men
- Frederik Andersson , 1 × (individual, grade 9/10)
- Ernst Bollden
- Simon Itkonen
- Linus Karlsson
- Örjan Kylevik
Individual evidence
- ↑ Summer Paralympic Participant List ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Query at paralympic.org (as of September 28, 2008)
- ↑ Paralympic.org, September 28, 2008, list of standard bearers ( memento of March 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )