Sweden competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, with the exception of the equestrian events, which could not be held in Australia due to quarantine regulations. Instead, those events were held five months earlier in Stockholm, Sweden.
97 competitors, 83 men and 14 women, took part in 74 events in 14 sports in Australia and 6 events in 1 sport in Sweden. Swedish athletes won a total of 19 medals at the games, including 3 golds in the equestrian events held in their own country.
Medalists Medal Name Sport Event Gert Fredriksson Canoeing Men's K1 1000 m Gert Fredriksson Canoeing Men's K1 10000 m Petrus Kastenman Equestrian Three-Day Eventing Individual Henri Saint Cyr Equestrian Dressage Individual Adolf Boltenstern Jr.Gehnäll PerssonHenri Saint Cyr Equestrian Dressage Team Lars Hall Modern pentathlon Men's Individual Hjalmar KarlssonSture StorkLars Thörn Sailing Men's 5½ m Class Leif WikströmFolke BohlinBengt Palmquist Sailing Men's Dragon Class Karin LindbergAnn-Sofi PetterssonEva RönströmEvy BerggrenDoris HedbergMaud Karlén Gymnastics Women's Team Exercise with portable Apparatus Sven GunnarssonOlle LarssonIvar AronssonGösta ErikssonBertil Göransson Rowing Men's Coxed Fours Olof Sköldberg Shooting Men's Running Deer, Single & Double Shot Edvin Vesterby Wrestling (Greco-Roman) Men's Bantamweight William Thoresson Gymnastics Men's Floor John Ljunggren Athletics Men's 50 km Walk Ann-Sofi Pettersson Gymnastics Women's Side Horse Vault John Sundberg Shooting Men's Small-bore Rifle, Three Positions Per Gunnar Berlin Wrestling (Greco-Roman) Men's Welterweight Rune Jansson Wrestling (Greco-Roman) Men's Middleweight Karl-Erik Nilsson Wrestling (Greco-Roman) Men's Light Heavyweight
Athletics
Men's Marathon Jvert Nyberg — 2:31:12 (→ 8th place) Thomas Nilsson — 2:33:33 (→ 9th place) Arnold Waide — 2:36:21 (→ 11th place)
Boxing
Canoeing
Cycling
Men's Team Time Trial Lars NordwallKarl-Ivar AnderssonRoland Ströhm — 47 points (→ 5th place)
Men's Individual Road Race Lars Nordwall — 5:23:40 (→ 10th place) Karl-Ivar Andersson — 5:23:50 (→ 17th place) Roland Ströhm — 5:24:44 (→ 20th place) Gunnar Göransson — 5:30:45 (→ 31st place)
Diving
Women AthleteEventPreliminaryFinalPointsRankPointsRankTotalRankAnna-Stina Baidinger3 m springboard60.3012 Q36.991197.2912Birte Hanson62.818 Q39.388102.19910 m platform50.486 Q24.73875.218
Equestrian
Dressage Henri Saint Cyr Gehnäll Persson Gustaf Adolf Boltenstern Jr.
Eventing Hans von Blixen-Finecke Jr. Petrus Kastenman Johan Asker
Jumping Anders Gernandt Tor Burman Douglas Wijkander
Fencing
Five fencers, all men, represented Sweden in 1956.
Men's épée Per Carleson Carl Forssell Berndt-Otto Rehbinder
Men's team épée Berndt-Otto Rehbinder, Carl Forssell, Per Carleson, Bengt Ljungquist, John Sandwall
Gymnastics
Modern pentathlon
Three male pentathletes represented the Sweden in 1956. Lars Hall won gold in the individual event.
Individual Lars Hall Bertil Haase Björn Thofelt
Team Lars Hall Bertil Haase Björn Thofelt
Rowing
Sweden had nine male rowers participate in two out of seven rowing events in 1956.
Men's coxed four Olle Larsson Gösta Eriksson Ivar Aronsson Evert Gunnarsson Bertil Göransson
Men's eight Olle Larsson Lennart Andersson Kjell Hansson Rune Andersson Lennart Hansson Gösta Eriksson Ivar Aronsson Evert Gunnarsson Bertil Göransson
Sailing
Shooting
Eight shooters represented Sweden in 1956. Olof Sköldberg won a silver in the 100m running deer and John Sundberg won a bronze in the 50 m rifle, three positions.
50 m pistol Torsten Ullman Åke Lindblom
300 m rifle, three positions John Sundberg Anders Kvissberg
50 m rifle, three positions John Sundberg Anders Kvissberg
50 m rifle, prone John Sundberg Anders Kvissberg
100m running deer Olof Sköldberg Benkt Austrin
Trap Knut Holmqvist Hans Liljedahl
Swimming
Men AthleteEventHeatFinalTimeRankTimeRankPer-Olof Östrand400 m freestyle 4:45.9 20 Did not advance
Women AthleteEventHeatSemifinalFinalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankAnita Hellström100 m freestyle 1:08.5 =20 Did not advanceKate Jobson 1:07.3 14 Q 1:06.1 9 Did not advanceAnita Hellström400 m freestyle 5:29.2 23 colspan=2 Did not advanceKarin Larsson 5:18.3 12 colspan=2 Did not advanceBirgitta Wängberg 5:27.0 19 colspan=2 Did not advanceAnita HellströmBirgitta WängbergKarin LarssonKate Jobson4 × 100 m freestyle 4:30.1 7 Q colspan=2 4:30.0 6
Weightlifting
Wrestling
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