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Sweden participated at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, sending 57 representatives to compete in eight different events. The team finished seventh overall, winning seven medals including three golds. Five of the team's medals came from cross-country skiing and one each from speed skating and men's ice hockey.
| Sweden at the 1964 Winter Olympics | |
|---|---|
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| IOC code | SWE |
| NOC | Swedish Olympic Committee |
| Website | www |
| in Innsbruck | |
| Competitors | 57 (49 men, 8 women) in 8 sports |
| Flag bearers | Carl-Gustav Briandt, cross-country skiing (official) |
| Medals Ranked 7th |
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| Winter Olympics appearances (overview) | |
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| Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
|---|---|---|---|
 Gold | Sixten Jernberg | Cross-country skiing | Men's 50 km |
| Gold | Karl-Åke Asph Sixten Jernberg Janne Stefansson Assar Rönnlund | Cross-country skiing | Men's 4 × 10 km relay |
| Gold | Jonny Nilsson | Speed skating | Men's 10 000 m |
 Silver | Assar Rönnlund | Cross-country skiing | Men's 50 km |
| Silver | Barbro Martinsson Britt Strandberg Toini Gustafsson | Cross-country skiing | Women's 3 x 5 km relay |
| Silver | Sweden men's national ice hockey team |
Ice hockey | Men's competition |
 Bronze | Sixten Jernberg | Cross-country skiing | Men's 15 km |
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- Men
| Athlete | Event | Race | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | ||
| Lars Olsson | Downhill | DNF | – |
| Rune Lindström | DNF | – | |
| Olle Rolén | 2:31.14 | 37 | |
| Bengt-Erik Grahn | 2:29.29 | 31 | |
| Bengt-Erik Grahn | Giant Slalom | DSQ | – |
| Olle Rolén | 2:00.01 | 30 | |
| Rune Lindström | 1:57.06 | 24 | |
- Men's slalom
| Athlete | Qualifying | Final | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time 1 | Rank | Time 2 | Rank | Time 1 | Rank | Time 2 | Rank | Total | Rank | |
| Lars Olsson | 59.80 | 45 | 56.66 | 14 QF | 1:18.74 | 34 | DSQ | – | DSQ | – |
| Olle Rolén | 58.39 | 42 | 57.17 | 16 QF | 1:16.14 | 25 | 1:06.94 | 30 | 2:23.08 | 28 |
| Bengt-Erik Grahn | 54.99 | 24 QF | – | – | DSQ | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
| Rune Lindström | 54.43 | 16 QF | – | – | 1:16.00 | 24 | 1:06.68 | 28 | 2:22.68 | 26 |
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- Men
| Event | Athlete | Time | Misses | Adjusted time 1 | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 km | Sten Eriksson | 1'23:27.8 | 6 | 1'35:27.8 | 25 |
| Sven-Olof Axelsson | 1'21:13.6 | 6 | 1'33:13.6 | 17 | |
| Sture Ohlin | 1'25:46.0 | 2 | 1'29:46.0 | 12 | |
| John Güttke | 1'24:02.4 | 2 | 1'28:02.4 | 9 |
- 1 Two minutes added per miss.
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| Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
| SWE-1 | Kjell Lutteman Heino Freyberg |
Two-man | 1:06.81 | 9 | 1:06.99 | 12 | 1:07.93 | 18 | 1:07.20 | 11 | 4:28.93 | 12 |
| SWE-2 | Jan-Erik Åkerström Carl-Erik Eriksson |
Two-man | 1:08.01 | 19 | 1:11.81 | 21 | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
| SWE-1 | Kjell Holmström Walter Aronson Kjell Lutteman Carl-Erik Eriksson |
Four-man | 1:04.26 | 8 | 1:04.04 | 4 | 1:04.56 | 8 | 1:06.38 | 16 | 4:19.24 | 11 |
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- Men
| Event | Athlete | Race | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | ||
| 15 km | Lars Olsson | 52:57.9 | 16 |
| Assar Rönnlund | 52:35.5 | 13 | |
| Janne Stefansson | 51:46.4 | 5 | |
| Sixten Jernberg | 51:42.2 | | |
| 30 km | Torsten Samuelsson | 1'33:07.8 | 9 |
| Assar Rönnlund | 1'32:43.6 | 7 | |
| Sixten Jernberg | 1'32:39.6 | 5 | |
| Janne Stefansson | 1'32:34.8 | 4 | |
| 50 km | Melcher Risberg | 2'48:03.0 | 10 |
| Janne Stefansson | 2'45:36.6 | 4 | |
| Assar Rönnlund | 2'44:58.2 | | |
| Sixten Jernberg | 2'43:52.6 | | |
- Men's 4 × 10 km relay
| Athletes | Race | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | |
| Karl-Åke Asph Sixten Jernberg Janne Stefansson Assar Rönnlund |
2'18:34.6 | |
- Women
| Event | Athlete | Race | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | ||
| 5 km | Gun Ädel | 26:09.0 | 32 |
| Britt Strandberg | 19:07.5 | 11 | |
| Barbro Martinsson | 18:26.4 | 7 | |
| Toini Gustafsson | 18:25.7 | 6 | |
| 10 km | Gun Ädel | 44:18.9 | 17 |
| Barbro Martinsson | 42:36.1 | 11 | |
| Toini Gustafsson | 41:41.1 | 8 | |
| Britt Strandberg | 40:54.0 | 4 | |
- Women's 3 x 5 km relay
| Athletes | Race | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | |
| Barbro Martinsson Britt Strandberg Toini Gustafsson |
1'01:27.0 | |
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- Women
| Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ann Margret Frei-Käck | 26 | 13 | 1661.1 | 191 | 21 |
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- Summary
| Team | Event | First round | Medal round / Consolation round | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Sweden men's | Men's tournament |  ItalyW 12–2 |
 CanadaL 1–3 |
 United StatesW 7–4 |
 FinlandW 7–0 |
 GermanyW 10–2 |
 SwitzerlandW 12–0 |
 Soviet UnionL 2–4 |
 CzechoslovakiaW 8–3 |
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First round
Winners (in bold) qualified for the Group A to play for 1st-8th places. Teams, which lost their qualification matches, played in Group B for 9th-16th places.
Medal round
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soviet Union |
7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 10 | 14 |
| 2 |  Sweden |
7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 47 | 16 | 10 |
| 3 | Czechoslovakia |
7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 38 | 19 | 10 |
| 4 |  Canada |
7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 32 | 17 | 10 |
| 5 | United States |
7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 29 | 33 | 4 |
| 6 | Finland |
7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 31 | 4 |
| 7 | Germany |
7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 13 | 49 | 4 |
| 8 | Switzerland |
7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 57 | 0 |
- Canada 3–1 Sweden
- Sweden 7–4 USA
- Sweden 7–0 Finland
- Sweden 10–2 Germany (UTG)
- Sweden 12–0 Switzerland
- Soviet Union 4–2 Sweden
- Sweden 8–3 Czechoslovakia
Leading scorers
| Rk | Team | GP | G | A | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Sven Johansson |
7 | 8 | 3 | 11 |
| 2nd | Ulf Sterner |
7 | 6 | 5 | 11 |
| 8th | Anders Andersson |
7 | 7 | 2 | 9 |
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Athletes performed three jumps, the best two were counted and are shown here.
| Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank | ||
| Holger Karlsson | Normal hill | 74.0 | 96.7 | 72.0 | 97.1 | 193.8 | 35 |
| Olle Martinsson | 74.0 | 98.7 | 72.0 | 96.1 | 194.8 | 32 | |
| Kjell Sjöberg | 72.0 | 98.4 | 71.5 | 96.2 | 194.6 | 33 | |
| Kurt Elimä | 75.0 | 104.1 | 75.0 | 104.8 | 208.9 | 7 | |
| Holger Karlsson | Large hill | 73.0 | 75.4 | 64.5 | 75.7 | 151.1 | 52 |
| Kurt Elimä | 89.5 | 100.1 | 81.5 | 95.2 | 195.3 | 29 | |
| Kjell Sjöberg | 90.0 | 103.8 | 85.0 | 110.6 | 214.4 | 5 | |
| Olle Martinsson | 84.0 | 99.7 | 76.0 | 93.8 | 193.5 | 32 | |
- Men
| Event | Athlete | Race | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | ||
| 500 m | Manne Lavås | 42.7 | 29 |
| Bo Ollander | 42.6 | 27 | |
| Björn Lekman | 42.1 | 22 | |
| Heike Hedlund | 41.0 | 7 | |
| 1500 m | Bo Ollander | 2:17.1 | 28 |
| Manne Lavås | 2:16.2 | 24 | |
| Ivar Nilsson | 2:15.6 | 19 | |
| Örjan Sandler | 2:15.4 | 18 | |
| 5000 m | Örjan Sandler | 8:05.3 | 19 |
| Ivar Nilsson | 7:49.0 | 7 | |
| Jonny Nilsson | 7:48.4 | 6 | |
| 10,000 m | Örjan Sandler | 16:56.9 | 17 |
| Ivar Nilsson | 16:40.3 | 10 | |
| Jonny Nilsson | 15:50.1 | | |
- Women
| Event | Athlete | Race | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | ||
| 500 m | Christina Lindblom-Scherling | 47.8 | 11 |
| Inger Eriksson | 47.3 | 9 | |
| Gunilla Jacobsson | 46.5 | 6 | |
| 1000 m | Christina Lindblom-Scherling | 1:39.5 | 14 |
| Inger Eriksson | 1:37.8 | 9 | |
| Gunilla Jacobsson | 1:36.5 | 6 | |
| 1500 m | Inger Eriksson | 2:32.0 | 12 |
| Gunilla Jacobsson | 2:31.9 | 11 | |
| Christina Lindblom-Scherling | 2:29.4 | 6 | |
| 3000 m | Gunilla Jacobsson | 5:39.2 | 15 |
| Inger Eriksson | 5:32.6 | 14 | |
| Christina Lindblom-Scherling | 5:27.6 | 9 | |
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