Sweden at the 1956 Summer Olympics

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Sweden at the Olympic Games
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At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne/Stockholm
Competitors
Medals Rank: 6	Gold 8	Silver 5	Bronze 6	Total 19
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Sweden competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.

Contents 1 Medals 1.1 Gold 1.2 Silver 1.3 Bronze 2 Results by event 2.1 Athletics 2.2 Cycling 2.3 Diving

[edit] Medals

[edit] Gold

• Gert Fredriksson — Canoeing, Men's K1 1000m Kayak Singles

• Gert Fredriksson — Canoeing, Men's K1 10.000m Kayak Singles

• Petrus Kastenman — Equestrian, Three-Day Event Individual

• Henri Saint Cyr — Equestrian, Dressage Individual

• Adolf Boltenstern Jr., Gehnäll Persson, and Henri Saint Cyr — Equestrian, Dressage Team

• Lars Hall — Modern Pentathlon, Men's Individual Competition

• Hjalmar Karlsson, Sture Stork, and Lars Thörn — Sailing, Men's 5½ Meter Class

• Leif Wikström, Folke Bohlin, and Bengt Palmquist — Sailing, Men's Dragon Class

[edit] Silver

• Karin Lindberg, Ann-Sofi Pettersson, Eva Rönström, Evy Berggren, Doris Hedberg, and Maud Karlén — Gymnastics, Women's Team Exercise with portable Apparatus

• Sven Gunnarsson, Olle Larsson, Ivar Aronsson, Gösta Eriksson, and Bertil Göransson — Rowing, Men's Coxed Fours

• Olof Sköldberg — Shooting, Men's Running Deer, Single & Double Shot

• Edvin Vesterby — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Bantamweight

• William Thoresson — Gymnastics, Men's Floor Exercises

[edit] Bronze

• John Ljunggren — Athletics, Men's 50km Walk

• Ann-Sofi Pettersson — Gymnastics, Women's Side Horse Vault

• John Sundberg — Shooting, Men's Small-bore Rifle, Three Positions

• Per Gunnar Berlin — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Welterweight

• Rune Jansson — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Middleweight

• Karl-Erik Nilsson — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Light Heavyweight

[edit] Results by event

[edit] Athletics

Men's Marathon

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

[edit] 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)

[edit] Diving

Women's 10m Platform

• Birte Christoffersen-Hanson

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

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