Sweden at the 1984 Winter Olympics

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At the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo

Competitors

60 (51 men, 9 women) in 8 sports

Mats Waltin (ice hockey)

Medals
Rank: 5

Gold
4

Silver
2

Bronze
2

Total
8

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Intercalated Games

Other related appearances

Youth Olympics • Paralympics

Sweden competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Medalists

Medal

Name

Sport

Event

Gold

Svan, GundeGunde Svan

Cross-country skiing

Men's 15 km

Gold

Wassberg, ThomasThomas Wassberg

Cross-country skiing

Men's 50 km

Gold

Wassberg, ThomasThomas Wassberg
Svan, GundeGunde Svan
Ottosson, JanJan Ottosson
Kohlberg, BennyBenny Kohlberg

Cross-country skiing

Men's 4 x 10 km relay

Gold

Gustafson, TomasTomas Gustafson

Men's 5000m

Silver

Svan, GundeGunde Svan

Cross-country skiing

Men's 50 km

Silver

Gustafson, TomasTomas Gustafson

Men's 10,000m

Bronze

Svan, GundeGunde Svan

Cross-country skiing

Men's 30 km

Bronze

Sweden men's national ice hockey team

Rolf Ridderwall		Bo Ericson		Jens Öhling
Göte Wälitalo		Pelle Eklund		Håkan Södergren
Michael Hjälm		Michael Thelvén		Mats Waltin
Peter Gradin		Mats Thelin		Håkan Nordin
Mats Hessel		Lars-Håkan Nordin		Thomas Åhlénd
Tomas Sandström		Göran Lindblom		Thom Eklund
Thomas Rundqvist		Tommy Mörth		Håkan Eriksson

Men's competition

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jörgen Sundqvist	Giant Slalom	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Johan Wallner		DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Gunnar Neuriesser		1:23.99	21	1:24.46	23	2:48.45	22
Niklas Henning		1:23.61	19	1:22.51	17	2:46.12	18
Bengt Fjällberg	Slalom	53.31	14	DSQ	–	DSQ	–
Lars-Göran Halvarsson		52.97	9	48.73	6	1:41.70	8
Stig Strand		52.95	8	49.00	10	1:41.95	9
Jonas Nilsson		51.52	2	48.73	6	1:40.25	4

Ingemar Stenmark, a double gold medalist in 1980, was banned from these Olympics by the International Ski Federation (FIS) for accepting promotional payments directly, rather than through the Swedish ski federation.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Ronnie Adolfsson	4	33:27.0	25
	Leif Andersson	3	33:21.9	24
	Sven Fahlén	2	33:12.9	21

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ²	Rank
20 km	Ronnie Adolfsson	1'12:12.2	8	1'20:12.2	20
	Sven Fahlén	1'12:10.8	6	1'18:10.8	11
	Leif Andersson	1'13:19.3	3	1'16:19.3	8

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
Sven Fahlén Tommy Höglund Roger Westling Ronnie Adolfsson	2	1'44:28.2	10

¹ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

² One minute added per missed target.

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
SWE-1	Carl-Erik Eriksson Nils Stefansson	Two-man	53.13	17	53.56	20	53.04	20	52.88	18	3:32.61	19

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
SWE-1	Carl-Erik Eriksson Tommy Johansson Ulf Åkerblom Nils Stefansson	Four-man	51.57	22	51.82	19	51.94	21	51.74	19	3:27.07	21

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km	Torgny Mogren	43:39.4	22
	Benny Kohlberg	43:21.5	19
	Sven-Erik Danielsson	42:55.9	15
	Gunde Svan	41:25.6	01 !
30 km	Torgny Mogren	1'33:52.0	23
	Jan Ottosson	1'33:01.3	16
	Thomas Wassberg	1'32:25.3	14
	Gunde Svan	1'29:35.7	03 !
50 km	Anders Larsson	2'31:43.6	39
	Jan Ottosson	2'22:24.0	14
	Gunde Svan	2'16:00.7	02 !
	Thomas Wassberg	2'15:55.8	01 !

Men's 4 x 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Thomas Wassberg Benny Kohlberg Jan Ottosson Gunde Svan	1'55:06.3	01 !

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
5 km	Eva-Lena Karlsson	19:21.6	37
	Ann Rosendahl	18:22.8	23
	Karin Lamberg-Skog	18:02.5	16
	Marie Johansson-Risby	17:26.3	4
10 km	Stina Karlsson	34:52.4	31
	Ann Rosendahl	34:28.0	21
	Karin Lamberg-Skog	34:01.3	18
	Marie Johansson-Risby	32:34.6	6
20 km	Stina Karlsson	1'07:43.4	32
	Kristina Hugosson	1'07:40.5	31
	Ann Rosendahl	1'06:47.8	23
	Marie Johansson-Risby	1'03:31.8	5

Women's 4 x 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Karin Lamberg-Skog Kristina Hugosson Marie Johansson-Risby Ann Rosendahl	1'09:30.0	5

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Lars Åkesson	13	15	18	31.8	17

Women

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Catarina Lindgren	17	22	20	39.0	20

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Group A

Top two teams (shaded ones) advanced to the medal round.

Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Soviet Union	5	5	0	0	42	5	10
Sweden	5	3	1	1	34	15	7
West Germany	5	3	1	1	27	17	7
Poland	5	1	4	0	16	37	2
Italy	5	1	4	0	15	31	2
Yugoslavia	5	1	4	0	8	37	2

Sweden 11-3 Italy
Sweden 11-0 Yugoslavia
Sweden 1-1 West Germany
Sweden 10-1 Poland
USSR 10-1 Sweden

Medal round

Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Soviet Union	3	3	0	0	16	1	6
Czechoslovakia	3	2	1	0	6	2	4
Sweden 03 !	3	1	2	0	3	12	2
Canada	3	0	3	0	0	10	0

Czechoslovakia 2-0 Sweden
Sweden 2-0 Canada

Carried over group match:

USSR 10-1 Sweden

Leading scorers

Rk	Team	GP	G	A	Pts
2nd	Peter Gradin	6	9	4	13

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Fredrik Wickman	47.693	21	47.850	23	47.808	24	47.579	21	3:10.930	19

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Lotta Dahlberg	42.986	12	43.327	18	42.859	15	43.181	19	2:52.353	16

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Hans Magnusson	1:03.08	42
	Tomas Gustafson	41.18	36
	Jan-Åke Carlberg	40.64	34
1000 m	Jan-Åke Carlberg	1:19.92	29
1000 m	Hans Magnusson	1:18.95	21
1500 m	Jan Junell	2:02.55	24
	Claes Bengtsson	2:02.04	18
	Hans Magnusson	2:01.26	16
5000 m	Jan Junell	7:29.98	18
	Claes Bengtsson	7:26.57	16
	Tomas Gustafson	7:12.28	01 !
10,000 m	Claes Bengtsson	15:14.33	16
	Jan Junell	15:12.90	15
	Tomas Gustafson	14:39.95	02 !

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Annette Carlén-Karlsson	43.65	18
1000 m	Annette Carlén-Karlsson	1:26.15	9
1500 m	Annette Carlén-Karlsson	2:10.80	12
3000 m	Annette Carlén-Karlsson	4:40.36	11

References

↑ "Ski stars banned from Olympics". Ottawa Citizen. Reuters. November 26, 1983. p. 71.
↑ "Ruling slaps Stenmark". Bend (OR) Bulletin. UPI. November 7, 1983. p. D-4.
↑ "Winter Olympics will take place without three alpine skiers". Palm Beach Post. wire services. January 25, 1984. p. D4.
↑ "Mahre skis for gold". Observer Reporter (Washington, PA). Associated Press. February 11, 1984. p. B-8.

Olympic Winter Games 1984, full results by sports-reference.com

Nations at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia

Africa	Egypt Morocco Senegal

America	Argentina Bolivia British Virgin Islands Canada Chile Costa Rica Mexico Puerto Rico United States

Asia	China Chinese Taipei Japan North Korea South Korea Lebanon Mongolia

Europe	Andorra Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Finland France East Germany West Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Italy Liechtenstein Monaco Netherlands Norway Poland Romania San Marino Soviet Union Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Yugoslavia

Oceania	Australia New Zealand