Sweden at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Sweden at the Olympic Games
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At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid
Competitors	61 (49 men, 12 women) in 9 sports
Flag bearer	Eva Olsson, Cross Country Skiing
Medals Rank: 5	Gold 3	Silver 0	Bronze 1	Total 4
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Sweden competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
01 ! Gold	Stenmark, IngemarIngemar Stenmark	Alpine skiing	Men's giant slalom
01 ! Gold	Stenmark, IngemarIngemar Stenmark	Alpine skiing	Men's slalom
01 ! Gold	Wassberg, ThomasThomas Wassberg	Cross-country skiing	Men's 15 km
03 ! Bronze	Sweden men's national ice hockey team Mats Waltin   Mats Näslund   Håkan Eriksson Ulf Weinstock   William Löfquist   Jan Eriksson Lennart Norberg   Harald Lückner   Thomas Eriksson Tommy Samuelsson   Bengt Lundholm   Mats Åhlberg Dan Söderström   Leif Holmgren   Sture Andersson Per Lundqvist   Tomas Jonsson   Bo Berglund Lars Molin   Pelle Lindbergh	Ice hockey	Men's competition

Alpine skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Stig Strand	Giant Slalom	1:23.37	32	1:25.25	31	2:48.62	28
Torsten Jakobsson		1:23.24	31	1:23.18	17	2:46.42	21
Ingemar Stenmark		1:20.49	3	1:20.25	1	2:40.74	01 !
Torsten Jakobsson	Slalom	DSQ	–	–	–	DSQ	–
Stig Strand		55.64	16	DNF	–	DNF	–
Ingemar Stenmark		53.89	4	50.37	1	1:44.26	01 !

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Åsa Svedmark	Giant Slalom	1:18.90	29	1:31.47	25	2:50.37	24
Anna-Karin Hesse		1:17.24	12	1:29.78	13	2:47.02	11
Ann Melander		1:16.84	10	1:30.79	19	2:47.63	15
Anna-Karin Hesse	Slalom	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Åsa Svedmark		46.06	18	45.45	9	1:31.51	12
Ann Melander		44.51	11	45.31	8	1:29.82	9

Biathlon

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses 1	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Per Andersson	2	35:55.57	22
	Ronnie Adolfsson	3	35:14.87	15
	Sören Wikström	2	34:57.01	14

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time 2	Rank
20 km	Sven Fahlén	1'09:49.23	8	1'17:49.23	31
	Sören Wikström	1'08:13.34	5	1'13:13.34	12
	Ronnie Adolfsson	1'08:10.90	5	1'13:10.90	11

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Misses 1	Time	Rank
Sven Fahlén Per Andersson Sören Wikström Ronnie Adolfsson	6	1'40:44.62	10

Bobsleigh

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
SWE-1	Carl-Erik Eriksson Kenth Rönn	Two-man	1:03.56	9	1:04.49	14	1:03.22	8	1:05.65	20	4:16.92	15

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
SWE-1	Carl-Erik Eriksson Peter Jansson Runald Beckman Kenth Rönn	Four-man	1:01.01	6	1:01.00	5	1:00.36	5	DSQ	–	DSQ	–

Cross-country skiing

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km	Sven-Erik Danielsson	43:41.21	18
	Benny Kohlberg	43:39.22	17
	Thomas Eriksson	43:11.88	11
	Thomas Wassberg	41:57.63	01 !
30 km	Stig Jäder	1'32:08.09	25
	Sven-Åke Lundbäck	1'31:31.96	17
	Benny Kohlberg	1'30:57.56	13
	Thomas Wassberg	1'28:40.35	4
50 km	Stig Jäder	DNF	–
	Erik Gustavsson	2'43:39.93	34
	Thomas Eriksson	2'36:33.85	16
	Sven-Åke Lundbäck	2'31:59.65	8

Men's 4 x 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Sven-Åke Lundbäck Thomas Eriksson Benny Kohlberg Thomas Wassberg	2'00:42.71	5

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km	Karin Lamberg-Skog	15:55.07	17
	Eva Olsson	15:48.59	12
	Marie Johansson-Risby	15:47.19	11
	Lena Carlzon-Lundbäck	15:43.04	10
10 km	Karin Lamberg-Skog	32:10.44	17
	Marie Johansson-Risby	31:48.57	15
	Lena Carlzon-Lundbäck	31:45.50	11
	Eva Olsson	31:36.08	10

Women's 4 x 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Marie Johansson-Risby Karin Lamberg-Skog Eva Olsson Lena Carlzon-Lundbäck	1'05:16.32	6

Figure skating

Men

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Thomas Öberg	14	14	14	149.80	127	14

Ice hockey

First round - Blue Division

	Team advanced to the Final Round
	Team advanced to Consolation Round

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Sweden	5	4	0	1	26	7	9
United States	5	4	0	1	25	10	9
Czechoslovakia	5	3	2	0	34	16	6
Romania	5	1	3	1	13	29	3
West Germany	5	1	4	0	21	30	2
Norway	5	0	4	1	9	36	1

All times are local (UTC-5).

12 February 1980 17:21

Sweden

2 – 2 (1–0, 0–1, 1–1)

United States

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

				Referee: Dombrovski
	Andersson (Molin, Lundqvist) - 11:04 T. Eriksson (Lückner) - 44:45	1 – 0 1 – 1 2 – 1 2 – 2	39:32 - Silk (Ramsey, Johnson) 59:33 - Baker (Pavelich, Schneider)
	8 min	Penalties	6 min
	36	Shots	29

14 February 1980 13:00

Romania

0 – 8 (0–3, 0–4, 0–1)

Sweden

Olympic Arena, Lake Placid

				Referee: Karl-Gustav Kaisla
		0 – 1 0 – 2 0 – 3 0 – 4 0 – 5 0 – 6 0 – 7 0 – 8	00:40 - Åhlberg (Näslund) 05:59 - Lundqvist (Samuelsson, Berglund) 07:42 - J. Eriksson (Waltin) 21:50 - T. Eriksson (Söderström, Molin) (PP) 28:05 - Molin 32:31 - Molin (Berglund) 37:17 - Lundholm (H. Eriksson) 50:18 - Jonsson (Holmgren)
	26 min	Penalties	15 min
	19	Shots	44

16 February 1980 20:00

Sweden

5 – 2 (1–0, 4–1, 0–1)

West Germany

Olympic Arena, Lake Placid

				Referee: Dombrovski
	Berglund (Molin, Lundqvist) - 09:52 Näslund (Åhlberg) - 26:50 Lundqvist (Berglund, Samuelsson) - 28:35 Söderström (Åhlberg) - 32:36 Söderström (H. Eriksson) (PP) - 36:03	1 – 0 2 – 0 3 – 0 4 – 0 5 – 0 5 – 1 5 – 2	37:06 - Egen (Truntschka) 56:43 - Reil (SH)
	24 min	Penalties	31 min
	33	Shots	25

18 February 1980 13:30

Norway

1 – 7 (0–2, 0–4, 1–1)

Sweden

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

				Referee: Vladimir Šubrt
	Abrahamsen (Molberg, Foyn) - 51:08	0 – 1 0 – 2 0 – 3 0 – 4 0 – 5 0 – 6 0 – 7 1 – 7	14:03 - Åhlberg (Näslund) 16:20 - Åhlberg (Näslund, Holmgren) 23:48 - Åhlberg (Jonsson) (PP) 34:08 - Lundqvist (Lückner, Molin) 36:40 - Norberg (H. Eriksson, Waltin) 37:09 - Andersson (Lundqvist, Molin) 43:24 - Näslund (Åhlberg, Weinstock) (PP)
	8 min	Penalties	8 min
	12	Shots	43

20 February 1980 13:30

Czechoslovakia

2 – 4 (0–2, 0–1, 2–1)

Sweden

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

				Referee: Karl-Gustav Kaisla
	Nový (Pouzar) - 52:05 Pouzar (Nový, Kadlec) (PP) - 59:22	0 – 1 0 – 2 0 – 3 1 – 3 1 – 4 2 – 4	09:18 - Åhlberg (Näslund, Holmgren) (PP) 10:55 - Holmgren (Näslund, Weinstock) 36:02 - Näslund (Söderström) (PP) 57:00 - Lundqvist (Näslund, Jonsson)
	6 min	Penalties	10 min
	43	Shots	26

Final round

The top two teams from each group play the top two teams from the other group once. Points from previous games against their own group carry over, excluding teams who failed to make the medal round.

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
United States	3	2	0	1	10	7	5
Soviet Union	3	2	1	0	16	8	4
Sweden 03 !	3	0	1	2	7	14	2
Finland	3	0	2	1	7	11	1

22 February 1980 20:42

Finland

3 – 3 (1–0, 1–1, 1–2)

Sweden

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

				Referee: Neagles
	Leinonen (Porvari, Kiimalainen) - 03:00 Porvari (Eloranta) - 27:06 Leinonen (Porvari) - 47:59	1 – 0 2 – 0 2 – 1 2 – 2 2 – 3 3 – 3	30:25 - Weinstock 45:24 - Jonsson (Åhlberg, Holmgren) 46:14 - Waltin (Norberg)
	6 min	Penalties	6 min
	25	Shots	30

24 February 1980 14:30

Sweden

2 – 9 (0–4, 0–5, 2–0)

Soviet Union

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

				Referee: Haley
	Åhlberg (Weinstock, Holmgren) - 49:17 Holmgren (Näslund) - 54:21	0 – 1 0 – 2 0 – 3 0 – 4 0 – 5 0 – 6 0 – 7 0 – 8 0 – 9 1 – 9 2 – 9	00:36 - Petrov (Kharlamov) 05:52 - Makarov (A. Golikov) 10:31 - Maltsev (Bilyaletdinov, Pervukhin) 17:38 - Mikhailov (Kharlamov, Pervukhin) 20:33 - Vasiliev 27:18 - Krutov (Pervukhin) 28:14 - Skvortsov (Balderis, Pervukhin) 34:51 - Zhluktov (Balderis, Skvortsov) 35:02 - Fetisov
	8 min	Penalties	12 min
	26	Shots	28

Carried over group match:

• Sweden 2–2 USA

• Team Roster
• Pelle Lindbergh
• WIlliam Lövquist
• Sture Andersson
• Jan Eriksson
• Thomas Eriksson
• Tomas Jonsson
• Tommy Samuelsson
• Mats Waltin
• Ulf Weinstock
• Bo Berglund
• Håkan Eriksson
• Leif Holmgren
• Bengt Lundholm
• Per Lundqvist
• Harald Lückner
• Lars Molin
• Lennart Norberg
• Mats Näslund
• Dan Söderström
• Mats Åhlberg
• Head Coach: Tommy Sandlin

Luge

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Stefan Kjernholm	44.565	14	44.905	11	44.900	10	48.538	22	3:02.908	18

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Stefan Kjernholm Kenneth Holm	40.415	13	41.024	13	1:21.439	12

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Anneli Näsström	40.987	23	41.096	22	40.999	17	40.877	17	2:43.959	19
Agneta Lindskog	40.219	13	40.547	14	40.463	13	40.388	12	2:41.617	13

Ski jumping

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Jan Holmlund	Normal hill	75.0	101.7	71.0	93.8	195.5	34
Jan Holmlund	Large hill	75.0	26.2	DNS	–	26.2	50

Speed skating

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Johan Granath	1:21.44	36
	Oloph Granath	39.15	12
	Jan-Åke Carlberg	39.03	10
1000 m	Johan Granath	DNF	–
	Jan-Åke Carlberg	1:19.13	16
	Oloph Granath	1:17.74	8
1500 m	Jan Junell	2:02.11	21
	Ulf Ekstrand	2:00.23	16
	Tomas Gustafson	1:58.18	7
5000 m	Jan Junell	7:19.50	14
	Tomas Gustafson	7:16.85	12
	Ulf Ekstrand	7:13.13	8
10,000 m	Ulf Ekstrand	15:33.42	21
	Örjan Sandler	15:11.52	14
	Tomas Gustafson	15:05.18	12

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Annette Carlén-Karlsson	44.52	24
	Sylvia Filipsson	44.05	16
	Ann-Sofie Järnström	42.47	4
1000 m	Annette Carlén-Karlsson	1:28.25	10
	Sylvia Filipsson	1:28.18	9
	Ann-Sofie Järnström	1:28.10	8
1500 m	Annette Carlén-Karlsson	2:17.31	20
	Sylvia Filipsson	2:12.84	5
3000 m	Annette Carlén-Karlsson	4:52.70	18
	Sylvia Filipsson	4:40.22	7

References

• Olympic Winter Games 1980, full results by sports-reference.com

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