Sweden competed at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
Medalists MedalNameSportEvent Cross-country skiing Men's 50 km Speed skating Men's 10 000 m Cross-country skiing Men's 15 km Cross-country skiing Men's 30 km Nordic combined Men's individual Speed skating Men's 5000m Alpine skiing Men's slalom Cross-country skiing Men's 4 × 10 km relay Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km Cross-country skiing Women's 3 x 5 km relay
Alpine skiing
Men
AthleteEventRace 1Race 2TotalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankLars MattssonDownhill3:50.432Stig Sollander3:05.410Hans OlofssonGiant SlalomDSQ–Olle Dalman3:24.929Åke Nilsson3:21.420Stig Sollander3:17.116Hans OlofssonSlalomDSQ–––DSQ–Åke Nilsson1:39.8291:57.5113:37.314Olle Dalman1:34.2202:03.4 (+0:05)153:37.615Stig Sollander1:29.251:51.033:20.2
Women
AthleteEventRace 1Race 2TotalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankVivi-Anne WassdahlDownhill2:08.042Ingrid Englund1:51.818Eivor Berglund1:51.615Vivi-Anne WassdahlGiant Slalom2:06.431Eivor Berglund2:04.926Ingrid Englund2:04.525Eivor BerglundSlalomDSQ–––DSQ–Ingrid EnglundDSQ–––DSQ–Vivi-Anne Wassdahl1:31.2 (+0:05)3559.682:30.828
Bobsleigh
SledAthletesEventRun 1Run 2Run 3Run 4TotalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankSWE-1Olle AxelssonTryggve SundströmTwo-man1:27.15151:27.82221:26.01121:25.6795:46.6517SWE-2Sven ErbsWalter AronsonTwo-man2:29.66231:25.0111DNF–––DNF–
SledAthletesEventRun 1Run 2Run 3Run 4TotalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankSWE-1Olle AxelssonEbbe WallénSune SkagerlingGunnar ÅhsFour-man1:18.9581:19.98121:22.75201:21.86185:23.5416SWE-2Kjell HolmströmSven ErbsWalter AronsonJan LapidothFour-man1:20.58141:20.32151:21.15151:21.13145:23.1813
Cross-country skiing
Men EventAthleteRaceTimeRank15 kmGunnar Samuelsson52:3915Per-Erik Larsson51:4412Lennart Larsson51:038Sixten Jernberg50:1430 kmGunnar Samuelsson1'48:2311Lennart Larsson1'46:568Per-Erik Larsson1'46:517Sixten Jernberg1'44:3050 kmInge Limberg3'10:1912Arthur Olsson3'10:0311Sture Grahn3'06:3210Sixten Jernberg2'50:27
Men's 4 × 10 km relay AthletesRaceTimeRankLennart LarssonGunnar SamuelssonPer-Erik LarssonSixten Jernberg2'17:42
Women EventAthleteRaceTimeRank10 kmBarbro Martinsson41:0414Anna-Lisa Eriksson40:5613Irma Johansson40:207Sonja Ruthström-Edström38:23
Women's 3 x 5 km relay AthletesRaceTimeRankIrma JohanssonAnna-Lisa ErikssonSonja Ruthström-Edström1'09:48
Figure skating
Women AthleteCFFSPointsPlacesRank Alice Lundström1918136.3420619
Ice hockey
Summary TeamEventFirst roundFinal round / Consolation roundOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankSweden men'sMen's tournamentL 1–5W 6–52 Q MRL 1–4W 5–0L 1–6L 2–6T 1–14
Group C Top two teams advanced to medal round. RankTeam PldWLTGFGAPts122001544221107102320208160
USSR 5–1 Sweden Sweden 6–5 Switzerland
Games for 1st-6th places RankTeam PldWLTGFGAPts15500255102541026128353202311645131101735514020302650416351
USSR 4–1 Sweden Sweden 5–0 Czechoslovakia USA 6–1 Sweden Canada 6–2 Sweden Germany (UTG) 1–1 Sweden
Contestants Lars Svensson Yngve Casslind Bertz Zetterberg Lasse Björn Åke Lassas Vilgot Larsson Ove Malmberg Holger Nurmela Sven Johansson Sigurd Bröms Hans Öberg Ronald Pettersson Nils Nilsson Lars-Eric Lundvall Stig Andersson-Tvilling Hans Andersson-Tvilling Stig Carlsson
Nordic combined
Events: normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.) 15 km cross-country skiing
AthleteEventSki JumpingCross-countryTotalDistance 1Distance 2PointsRankTimePointsRankPointsRankBengt ErikssonIndividual72.572.5214.031'00:36223.40015437.400
Ski jumping
AthleteEventJump 1Jump 2TotalDistancePointsRankDistancePointsRankPointsRankHolger KarlssonNormal hill76.0 fall71.55177.5104.510176.041Erik Styf76.0102.51575.0 fall66.551169.044Bror Östman76.0102.51575.5102.013204.514Sven Pettersson81.0109.5581.5110.55220.05
Speed skating
Men EventAthleteRaceTimeRank500 mGunnar Ström44.742Sigvard Ericsson44.237Bertil Eng42.615Bengt Malmsten41.971500 mGunnar Ström2:15.622Bengt Malmsten2:14.617Bertil Eng2:13.111Sigvard Ericsson2:11.065000 mSven Andersson8:16.922Gunnar Sjölin8:06.712Olle Dahlberg8:01.87Sigvard Ericsson7:56.710,000 mGunnar Ström17:17.015Sven Andersson17:13.513Olle Dahlberg17:01.38Sigvard Ericsson16:35.9 OR
References Olympic Winter Games 1956, full results by sports-reference.com