Sweden at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
01 ! Gold	Gustafsson, ToiniToini Gustafsson	Cross-country skiing	Women's 5 km
01 ! Gold	Gustafsson, ToiniToini Gustafsson	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 km
01 ! Gold	Höglin, JohnnyJohnny Höglin	Speed skating	Men's 10,000m
02 ! Silver	Halvarsson, JanJan Halvarsson Andersson, BjarneBjarne Andersson Larsson, GunnarGunnar Larsson Rönnlund, AssarAssar Rönnlund	Cross-country skiing	Men's 4 x 10 km relay
02 ! Silver	Strandberg, BrittBritt Strandberg Gustafsson, ToiniToini Gustafsson Martinsson, BarbroBarbro Martinsson	Cross-country skiing	Women's 3 x 5 km relay
03 ! Bronze	Arwidson, Lars-GöranLars-Göran Arwidson Eriksson, ToreTore Eriksson Petrusson, OlleOlle Petrusson Olsson, HolmfridHolmfrid Olsson	Biathlon	Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
03 ! Bronze	Larsson, GunnarGunnar Larsson	Cross-country skiing	Men's 15 km
03 ! Bronze	Sandler, ÖrjanÖrjan Sandler	Speed skating	Men's 10,000m

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Per-Olov Richardsson	Downhill					2:09.83	43
Rune Lindström	Downhill					2:05.69	29
Lars Olsson	Giant Slalom	1:48.69	28	DSQ	–	DSQ	–
Bengt-Erik Grahn		1:48.68	27	1:57.78	54	3:46.46	39
Olle Rolén		1:47.52	22	1:50.83	22	3:38.35	20
Rune Lindström		1:46.94	17	1:50.11	17	3:37.05	16

Men's slalom

Athlete	Heat 1		Heat 2		Final
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time 1	Rank	Time 2	Rank	Total	Rank
Per-Olov Richardsson	54.83	2 QF	–	–	52.46	28	DSQ	–	DSQ	–
Bengt-Erik Grahn	54.28	1 QF	–	–	49.74	3	DSQ	–	DSQ	–
Olle Rolén	54.15	1 QF	–	–	51.77	22	DSQ	–	DSQ	–
Rune Lindström	53.85	2 QF	–	–	51.19	15	50.80	8	1:41.99	11

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ingrid Sundberg	Giant Slalom					2:08.54	35
Ingrid Sundberg	Slalom	46.91	27	52.65	23	1:39.56	21

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ¹	Rank
20 km	Nore Westin	1'21:09.4	7	1'28:09.4	30
	Holmfrid Olsson	1'19:01.8	6	1'25:01.8	20
	Olle Petrusson	1'18:31.2	6	1'24:31.2	19
	Lars-Göran Arwidson	1'18:08.9	6	1'24:08.9	17

¹ One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Misses ²	Time	Rank
Lars-Göran Arwidson Tore Eriksson Olle Petrusson Holmfrid Olsson	0	2'17:26.3	03 !

² A penalty loop of 200 metres had to be skied per missed target.

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1968 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	Rolf Höglund Börje Hedblom	Two-man	1:12.77	19	1:13.17	18	1:12.62	14	1:12.63	12	4:51.19	14
SWE-2	Carl-Erik Eriksson Eric Wennerberg	Two-man	1:12.75	17	1:12.69	14	1:12.84	16	1:13.41	17	4:51.69	18

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
SWE-1	Rolf Höglund Hans Hallén Sven Martinsson Börje Hedblom	Four-man	1:12.20	16	1:09.90	16	2:22.10	16

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km	Assar Rönnlund	49:25.3	11
	Bjarne Andersson	48:41.1	6
	Jan Halvarsson	48:39.1	5
	Gunnar Larsson	48:33.7	03 !
30 km	Ingvar Sandström	1'39:47.5	21
	Bruno Åvik	1'39:38.1	20
	Jan Halvarsson	1'38:23.2	12
	Gunnar Larsson	1'37:48.1	8
50 km	Assar Rönnlund	2'31:19.3	10
	Jan Halvarsson	2'30:05.9	7
	Gunnar Larsson	2'29:37.2	6
	Melcher Risberg	2'29:37.0	5

Men's 4 x 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Jan Halvarsson Bjarne Andersson Gunnar Larsson Assar Rönnlund	2'10:13.2	02 !

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
5 km	Barbro Tano	17:35.8	18
	Britt Strandberg	17:25.8	15
	Barbro Martinsson	16:52.9	4
	Toini Gustafsson	16:45.2	01 !
10 km	Britt Strandberg	39:25.7	15
	Barbro Tano	39:09.6	10
	Barbro Martinsson	38:07.1	4
	Toini Gustafsson	36:46.5	01 !

Women's 3 x 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Britt Strandberg Toini Gustafsson Barbro Martinsson	57:51.0	02 !

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	CF	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Thomas Callerud	27	27	1399.3	241	27

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Medal Round

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1	Soviet Union	7	6	1	0	48	10	12
2	Czechoslovakia	7	5	1	1	33	17	11
3	Canada	7	5	2	0	28	15	10
4	Sweden	7	4	2	1	23	18	9
5	Finland	7	3	3	1	17	23	7
6	United States	7	2	4	1	23	28	5
7	West Germany	7	1	6	0	13	39	2
8	East Germany	7	0	7	0	13	48	0

Sweden – USA 4:3 (0:0, 4:2, 0:1)
Goalscorers: Nilsson, Wickberg, Hedlund, Bengsston – Falkman, Lilyholm, Nanne.
Referees: McEvoy, Kubinec (CAN)

Sweden – West Germany 5:4 (4:3, 0:0, 1:1)
Goalscorers: Svedberg, Lundström, Nordlander, Olsson, Öberg – Kuhn, Hanig, Reif, Kopf.
Referees: Kořínek, Bucala (TCH)

Sweden – East Germany 5:2 (1:0, 2:1, 2:1)
Goalscorers: Hedlund 2, Wickberg, Lundström, Henriksson – Plotka, Fuchs.
Referees: Seglin (URS), Wycisk (POL)

Sweden – Finland 5:1 (1:0, 2:1, 2:0)
Goalscorers: Wickberg 2, Granholm, Nillsson, Bengsston – Oksanen.
Referees: Kubinec (CAN), Kořínek (TCH)

USSR – Sweden 3:2 (1:1, 0:0, 2:1)
Goalscorers: Firsov 2, Blinov – Öberg, Svedberg.
Referees: Kubinec (CAN), Kořínek (TCH)

Sweden – Canada 0:3 (0:2, 0.0, 0:1)
Goalscorers: Johnston, G. Pinder, O‘Shea.
Referees: Sillankorva (FIN), Kořínek (TCH)

Czechoslovakia – Sweden 2:2 (1:1, 1:0, 0:1)
Goalscorers: Golonka, Hrbatý – Bengtsson, Henriksson.
Referees: Trumble (USA), Sillankorva (FIN)

Contestants

4. SWEDEN
Goaltenders: Leif Holmqvist, Hans Dahllöf.
Defence: Arne Carlsson, Nils Johansson, Bert-Olov Nordlander, Lars-Erik Sjöberg, Roland Stoltz, Lennart Svedberg.
Forwards: Folke Bengtsson, Svante Granholm, Henric Hedlund, Leif Henriksson, Tord Lundström, Lars-Göran Nilsson, Roger Olsson, Björn Palmqvist, Håkan Wickberg, Carl-Göran Öberg.
Coach: Arne Strömberg.

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ivar Bjare	1:00.73	34	1:01.44	36	1:00.63	33	3:02.80	32
Per-Ulf Helander	1:00.25	31	1:01.67	37	1:01.20	34	3:03.12	34
Hans Sahlin	59.12	24	59.36	22	59.98	28	2:58.46	25
Jan Nilsson	59.00	20	59.67	27	59.24	23	2:57.91	23

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athletes	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ivar Bjare Jan Nilsson	51.04	13	50.52	13	1:41.56	13

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Berit Salomonsson	50.89	14	51.35	17	51.31	13	2:33.55	13

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Ulf Norberg	Normal hill	65.5	82.6	66.0	84.4	167.0	48
Tord Karlsson		67.5	85.8	69.5	90.0	175.8	43
Mats Östman		67.5	87.8	64.0	77.7	165.5	49
Kurt Elimä		71.0	95.4	69.5	90.5	185.9	37
Mats Östman	Large hill	83.0	76.6	79.5	72.2	148.8	52
Kjell Sjöberg		85.5	86.1	73.0	59.1	145.2	53
Kurt Elimä		87.5	88.9	85.5	85.1	174.0	37
Tord Karlsson		91.0	92.3	87.5	86.9	179.2	32

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Manne Lavås	41.8	24
	Heike Hedlund	41.2	15
	Hasse Börjes	41.2	15
	Håkan Holmgren	40.8	8
1500 m	Göran Claeson	2:08.6	20
	Manne Lavås	2:07.8	16
	Örjan Sandler	2:07.0	10
	Johnny Höglin	2:05.2	5
5000 m	Jonny Nilsson	7:32.9	7
	Örjan Sandler	7:32.8	6
	Johnny Höglin	7:32.7	5
10,000 m	Jonny Nilsson	15:39.6	6
	Örjan Sandler	15:31.8	03 !
	Johnny Höglin	15:23.6 OR	01 !

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Ylva Hedlund	49.9	26
500 m	Christina Lindblom-Scherling	47.7	15
1000 m	Ylva Hedlund	1:37.5	19
1000 m	Christina Lindblom-Scherling	1:36.9	15
1500 m	Ylva Hedlund	2:31.5	20
	Christina Karlsson	2:31.4	18
	Christina Lindblom-Scherling	2:27.5	9
3000 m	Christina Karlsson	5:17.2	13
3000 m	Christina Lindblom-Scherling	5:09.8	7

References

Olympic Winter Games 1968, full results by sports-reference.com

Nations at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France

Africa	Morocco

America	Argentina Canada Chile United States

Asia	India Iran Japan South Korea Lebanon Mongolia

Europe	Austria Bulgaria Czechoslovakia Denmark Finland France East Germany West Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Italy Liechtenstein Netherlands Norway Poland Romania Soviet Union Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Yugoslavia

Oceania	Australia New Zealand

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