Sweden at the 1972 Summer Olympics

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Sweden at the Olympic Games

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At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich
Competitors
Medals
Rank: 11		 Gold
4		 Silver
6		 Bronze
6		 Total
16
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Sweden competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.

Contents

[edit] Medals

[edit] Image:Med_1.png Gold

[edit] Image:Med_2.png Silver

  • Gunnar Jervill — Archery, Men's Individual Competition
  • Rolf Peterson — Canoeing, Men's K1 1000m Kayak Singles
  • Per Pettersson and Stellan Westerdahl — Sailing, Men's Star Team Competition
  • Bo Knape, Stefan Krook, Lennart Roslund and Stig Wennerström — Sailing, Men's Soling Team Competition

[edit] Image:Med_3.png Bronze

  • Jan Jönsson — Equestrian, Three-Day Event Individual Competition
  • Ulla Håkanson, Ninna Swaab and Maud von Rosen — Equestrian, Dressage Team Competition
  • Hans Bettembourg — Weightlifting, Men's Middle Heavyweight
  • Jan Karlsson — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Welterweight

[edit] Results by event

[edit] Archery

In the first modern archery competition at the Olympics, Sweden entered three men and two women. Gunnar Jervill won a silver medal in the men's competition.

Men's Individual Competition:

  • Gunnar Jervill – 2481 points (→ Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal)
  • Rolf Svensson – 2386 points (→ 16th place)
  • Olov Bostroem – 2347 points (→ 27th place)

Women's Individual Competition:

  • Maj-Britt Johansson – 2283 points (→ 19th place)
  • Anna-Lisa Berglund – 2185 points (→ 34th place)

[edit] Athletics

Men's 1500 metres

  • Gunnar Ekman
  • Heat — 3:40.4
  • Semifinals — 3:39.4 (→ did not advance)
  • Ulf Hogberg
  • Heat — 3:41.5
  • Semifinals — 3:43.6 (→ did not advance)

Men's 5000 metres

  • Heat — 13:57.2 (→ did not advance)

Men's High Jump

  • Jan Dahlgren
  • Qualifying Round — 2.15m
  • Final — 2.15m (→ 11th place)

[edit] Boxing

Men's Heavyweight (+ 81 kg)

  • First Round — Defeated Jean Bassomben (CMR), 4:1
  • Quarterfinals — Defeated Carroll Morgan (CAN), KO-3
  • Semifinals — Lost to Ion Alexe (ROM), TKO-2

[edit] Cycling

Men's Individual Road Race

  • Lennart Fagerlund — 42nd place
  • Sven-Åke Nilsson — 44th place
  • Leif Hansson — did not finish (→ no ranking)
  • Bernt Johansson — did not finish (→ no ranking)

[edit] Diving

Women's 3m Springboard

  • Ulrika Knape — 434.19 points (→ Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal)
  • Agneta Henriksson — 417.48 points (→ 6th place)

Women's 10m Platform

[edit] Handball

[edit] Men's Team Competition

In a very tight division for the first round, Sweden came out in first place after a tie-breaker with the Soviet Union. Both teams had tied twice (Sweden had tied Poland and the Soviet Union) and won once. Sweden's victory was over Denmark. Both teams advanced to the second round with a 0-0-1 record to start, already behind East Germany which had defeated Czechoslovakia to enter with a 1-0-0 record. Sweden lost its games to those two opponents while the Soviet Union split its pair, dropping the Swedes to fourth place in the division. They played against Hungary for seventh and eighth places, winning 19-18.

  • Preliminary Round (Group A)
  • Sweden – Poland 13-13 (5-7)
  • Sweden – Soviet Union 11-11 (4-3)
  • Sweden – Denmark 16-10 (8-4)
  • Second Round (Group A)
  • Sweden – Czechoslovakia 12-15 (6-7)
  • Sweden – East Germany 11-14 (6-8)
  • Classification Match
  • Sweden – Hungary 19-18 (11-8) → 7th place
  • Team Roster

[edit] Modern Pentathlon

Men's Individual Competition:

Men's Team Competition:

  • Ferm, Jansson, and Liljenwall – 14708 points (→ 5th placa)

[edit] Rowing

Men's Single Sculls

  • Lennart Baiter
  • Heat — 8:12.92
  • Repechage — 8:11.07 (→ did not advance)

[edit] Swimming

Men's 100m Freestyle

  • Anders Bellbring
  • Heat — DNS (→ did not advance)

Men's 200m Freestyle

  • Bernt Zarnowiecki
  • Heat — 2:01.34 (→ did not advance)
  • Heat — 2:00.02 (→ did not advance)
  • Hans Ljungberg
  • Heat — 1:59.42 (→ did not advance)

Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay

  • Heat — 7:57.54
  • Final — 7:47.37 (→ 4th place)