Sweden competed at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Medalists MedalNameSportEvent Cross-country skiing Men's 18 km Cross-country skiing Men's 50 km Cross-country skiing Men's 4 x 10 km relay Speed skating Men's 10 000 m Cross-country skiing Men's 18 km Cross-country skiing Men's 50 km Speed skating Men's 1500 m Cross-country skiing Men's 18 km Nordic combined Men's individual Speed skating Men's 5000 m
Alpine skiing
Men
AthleteEventRace 1Race 2TotalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankOlle DalmanDownhill3:23.241Stig Sollander3:23.140Åke Nilsson3:22.238Sixten Isberg3:15.030Hans Hansson3:05.010Åke NilssonSlalomDNF–––DNF–Hans Hansson1:11.1111:07.2162:18.311Sixten Isberg1:10.781:06.5132:17.210Olle Dalman1:10.471:03.232:13.65
Men's combined
The downhill part of this event was held along with the main medal event of downhill skiing. For athletes competing in both events, the same time was used (see table above for the results). The slalom part of the event was held separate from the main medal event of slalom skiing (included in table below).
AthleteSlalomTotal (downhill + slalom)Time 1Time 2RankPointsRankStig Sollander–––DNF–Olle Dalman–––DNF–Åke Nilsson1:15.31:09.41019.4319Hans Hansson1:13.51:10.099.316
Women
AthleteEventRace 1Race 2TotalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankMay NilssonDownhill2:39.118May NilssonSlalom1:12.21957.522:09.710
Women's combined
The downhill part of this event was held along with the main medal event of downhill skiing. For athletes competing in both events, the same time was used (see table above for the results). The slalom part of the event was held separate from the main medal event of slalom skiing (included in table below).
AthleteSlalomTotal (downhill + slalom)Time 1Time 2RankPointsRankMay Nilsson1:05.31:05.3913.0315
Cross-country skiing
Men EventAthleteRaceTimeRank18 kmClas Haraldsson1'24:2133Erik Elmsäter1'22:1219Sven Israelsson1'21:4416Nils Karlsson1'16:545Gunnar Eriksson1'16:06Nils Östensson1'14:22Martin Lundström1'13:5050 kmArthur HerrdinDNF–Anders Törnqvist3'58:205Harald Eriksson3'52:20Nils Karlsson3'47:48
Men's 4 x 10 km relay AthletesRaceTimeRankNils ÖstenssonNils TäppGunnar ErikssonMartin Lundström2'32:08
Ice hockey
Summary TeamEventRound robinOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankSweden men'sMen's tournamentL 1–3L 3–6W 7–1L 2–5L 2–8W 4–3W 23–0W 13–24
The tournament was run in a round-robin format with nine teams participating. PldWLTGFGAPts 870169515 8701801815 8620672112 4th844055288 835039476 826029974 817033772 8080241560 *8530863310 * United States team was disqualified. Only eight teams are officially ranked.
Canada 3-1 Sweden Czechoslovakia 6-3 Sweden Sweden 7-1 Austria USA 5-2 Sweden Switzerland 8-2 Sweden Sweden 4-3 United Kingdom Sweden 23-0 Italy Sweden 13-2 Poland
Contestants Stig Andersson Åke Andersson Stig Carlsson Åke Ericson Rolf Ericsson Svante Granlund Arne Johansson Rune Johansson Gunnar Landelius Klas Lindström Lars Ljungman Holger Nurmela Bror Pettersson Rolf Pettersson Kurt Svanberg Sven Thunman
Nordic combined
Events: 18 km cross-country skiing normal hill ski jumping
The cross-country skiing part of this event was combined with the main medal event, meaning that athletes competing here were skiing for two disciplines at the same time. Details can be found above in this article, in the cross-country skiing section.
The ski jumping (normal hill) event was held separate from the main medal event of ski jumping, results can be found in the table below. Athletes would perform three jumps, of which the two best jumps (distance and form) were counted.
AthleteEventCross-countrySki JumpingTotalPointsRankDistance 1Distance 2Distance 3PointsRankPointsRankClas HaraldssonIndividual197.351563.566.066.0213.44410.7510Erik Elmsäter208.95656.061.558.0202.015410.959Sven Israelsson211.50467.566.067.0221.91433.40
Ski jumping
AthleteEventDistance 1Distance 2Total pointsRankErik LindströmNormal hillDNF–DNF–Vilhelm Hellman57.565.0208.114Nils Lundh61.5 (fall)66.0152.740Evert Karlsson65.568.0212.211
Speed skating
Men EventAthleteRaceTimeRank500 mGöthe Hedlund45.620Åke Seyffarth44.011Halle Janemar44.011Mats Bolmstedt43.7101500 mMats Bolmstedt2:22.817Göthe Hedlund2:20.78Harry Jansson2:20.05Åke Seyffarth2:18.15000 mRune Hammarström8:53.816Åke Seyffarth8:37.97Harry Jansson8:34.94Göthe Hedlund8:34.810,000 mGöthe HedlundDNF–Rune Hammarström18:39.69Harry Jansson18:08.08Åke Seyffarth17:26.3
References
Olympic Winter Games 1948, full results by sports-reference.com