Sweden at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Sweden at the
1956 Summer Olympics
Sweden at the; 1956 Summer Olympics
IOC code	SWE
NOC	Swedish Olympic Committee
Website	www.sok.se (in Swedish and English)
in Melbourne/Stockholm
Competitors	97 (83 men and 14 women) in 15 sports
Flag bearer	Melbourne Stockholm
Medals; Ranked 6th	Gold 8 Silver 5 Bronze 6 Total 19
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
	1896; 1900; 1904; 1908; 1912; 1920; 1924; 1928; 1932; 1936; 1948; 1952; 1956; 1960; 1964; 1968; 1972; 1976; 1980; 1984; 1988; 1992; 1996; 2000; 2004; 2008; 2012; 2016; 2020;
Other related appearances
	1906 Intercalated Games

Sweden competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, with the exception of the equestrian events, which could not be held in Australia due to quarantine regulations. Instead, those events were held five months earlier in Stockholm, Sweden.

97 competitors, 83 men and 14 women, took part in 74 events in 14 sports in Australia^[1] and 6 events in 1 sport in Sweden. Swedish athletes won a total of 19 medals at the games, including 3 golds in the equestrian events held in their own country.

Medalists[]

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Gert Fredriksson	Canoeing	Men's K1 1000 m
Gold	Gert Fredriksson	Canoeing	Men's K1 10000 m
Gold	Petrus Kastenman	Equestrian	Three-Day Eventing Individual
Gold	Henri Saint Cyr	Equestrian	Dressage Individual
Gold	Gehnäll Persson Henri Saint Cyr	Equestrian	Dressage Team
Gold	Lars Hall	Modern pentathlon	Men's Individual
Gold	Hjalmar Karlsson Sture Stork Lars Thörn	Sailing	Men's 5½ m Class
Gold	Leif Wikström Folke Bohlin Bengt Palmquist	Sailing	Men's Dragon Class
Silver	Karin Lindberg Ann-Sofi Pettersson Eva Rönström Evy Berggren Doris Hedberg Maud Karlén	Gymnastics	Women's Team Exercise with portable Apparatus
Silver	Sven Gunnarsson Olle Larsson Ivar Aronsson Gösta Eriksson Bertil Göransson	Rowing	Men's Coxed Fours
Silver	Olof Sköldberg	Shooting	Men's Running Deer, Single & Double Shot
Silver	Edvin Vesterby	Wrestling (Greco-Roman)	Men's Bantamweight
Silver	William Thoresson	Gymnastics	Men's Floor
Bronze	John Ljunggren	Athletics	Men's 50 km Walk
Bronze	Ann-Sofi Pettersson	Gymnastics	Women's Side Horse Vault
Bronze	John Sundberg	Shooting	Men's Small-bore Rifle, Three Positions
Bronze	Per Gunnar Berlin	Wrestling (Greco-Roman)	Men's Welterweight
Bronze	Rune Jansson	Wrestling (Greco-Roman)	Men's Middleweight
Bronze	Karl-Erik Nilsson	Wrestling (Greco-Roman)	Men's Light Heavyweight

Athletics[]

Men's Marathon

— 2:31:12 (→ 8th place)
Thomas Nilsson — 2:33:33 (→ 9th place)
Arnold Waide — 2:36:21 (→ 11th place)

Boxing[]

Canoeing[]

Cycling[]

Men's Team Time Trial

Lars Nordwall
Karl-Ivar Andersson
Roland Ströhm — 47 points (→ 5th place)

Men's Individual Road Race

Lars Nordwall — 5:23:40 (→ 10th place)
Karl-Ivar Andersson — 5:23:50 (→ 17th place)
Roland Ströhm — 5:24:44 (→ 20th place)
Gunnar Göransson — 5:30:45 (→ 31st place)

Diving[]

Women's 10m Platform

Birte Christoffersen-Hanson

Preliminary Round — 50.48
Final — 75.21 (→ 8th place)

Equestrian[]

Dressage

Henri Saint Cyr
Gehnäll Persson
Gustaf Adolf Boltenstern Jr.

Eventing

Hans von Blixen-Finecke Jr.
Petrus Kastenman
Johan Asker

Jumping

Anders Gernandt
Tor Burman
Douglas Wijkander

Fencing[]

Five fencers, all men, represented Sweden in 1956.

Men's épée

Men's team épée

Berndt-Otto Rehbinder, Carl Forssell, Per Carleson, Bengt Ljungquist, John Sandwall

Gymnastics[]

Modern pentathlon[]

Three male pentathletes represented the Sweden in 1956. Lars Hall won gold in the individual event.

Individual

Lars Hall
Bertil Haase
Björn Thofelt

Team

Lars Hall
Bertil Haase
Björn Thofelt

Rowing[]

Sweden had nine male rowers participate in two out of seven rowing events in 1956.^[2]

Men's coxed four

Men's eight

Sailing[]

Shooting[]

Eight shooters represented Sweden in 1956. Olof Sköldberg won a silver in the 100m running deer and John Sundberg won a bronze in the 50 m rifle, three positions.

50 m pistol

300 m rifle, three positions

50 m rifle, three positions

50 m rifle, prone

100m running deer

Trap

Swimming[]

Weightlifting[]

Wrestling[]

References[]

^ "Sweden at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2010-10-21.
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Sweden Rowing at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 February 2018.

[sports-reference-1] "Sweden at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2010-10-21.

[2] Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Sweden Rowing at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 February 2018.

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v t Nations at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia and Stockholm, Sweden
Africa	(Egypt)* Ethiopia Kenya Liberia Nigeria South Africa Uganda
America	Argentina Bahamas Bermuda Brazil British Guiana Canada Chile Colombia Cuba Jamaica Mexico Peru Puerto Rico Trinidad United States Uruguay Venezuela
Asia	Afghanistan Burma (Cambodia)* Ceylon Republic of China Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Israel Japan South Korea Malaya North Borneo Pakistan Philippines Singapore Thailand Vietnam
Europe	Austria Belgium Bulgaria Czechoslovakia Denmark Finland France Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Luxembourg (Netherlands)* Norway Poland Portugal Romania Soviet Union (Spain)* Sweden (Switzerland)* Turkey Yugoslavia
Oceania	Australia Fiji New Zealand
Nations in bullet brackets indicating competed at the Equestrian events (Stockholm only)