Sweden at the 1980 Winter Olympics

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At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid
Competitors	61 (49 men, 12 women) in 9 sports
Flag bearer	Eva Olsson, Cross Country Skiing
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Sweden competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States.

Medalists

Medal

Name

Sport

Event

Gold

Ingemar Stenmark

Alpine skiing

Men's giant slalom

Gold

Ingemar Stenmark

Alpine skiing

Men's slalom

Gold

Thomas Wassberg

Cross-country skiing

Men's 15 km

Bronze

Sweden men's national ice hockey team

Mats Waltin	Mats Näslund	Håkan Eriksson
Ulf Weinstock	William Löfquist	Jan Eriksson
Lennart Norberg	Harald Lückner	Thomas Eriksson
Tommy Samuelsson	Bengt Lundholm	Mats Åhlberg
Dan Söderström	Leif Holmgren	Sture Andersson
Per Lundqvist	Tomas Jonsson	Bo Berglund
Lars Molin	Pelle Lindbergh

Ice hockey

Men's competition

Alpine skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Stig Strand	Giant Slalom	1:23.37	32	1:25.25	31	2:48.62	28
Torsten Jakobsson		1:23.24	31	1:23.18	17	2:46.42	21
Ingemar Stenmark		1:20.49	3	1:20.25	1	2:40.74
Torsten Jakobsson	Slalom	DSQ	–	–	–	DSQ	–
Stig Strand		55.64	16	DNF	–	DNF	–
Ingemar Stenmark		53.89	4	50.37	1	1:44.26

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Åsa Svedmark	Giant Slalom	1:18.90	29	1:31.47	25	2:50.37	24
Anna-Karin Hesse		1:17.24	12	1:29.78	13	2:47.02	11
Ann Melander		1:16.84	10	1:30.79	19	2:47.63	15
Anna-Karin Hesse	Slalom	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Åsa Svedmark		46.06	18	45.45	9	1:31.51	12
Ann Melander		44.51	11	45.31	8	1:29.82	9

Biathlon

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Per Andersson	2	35:55.57	22
	Ronnie Adolfsson	3	35:14.87	15
	Sören Wikström	2	34:57.01	14

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ²	Rank
20 km	Sven Fahlén	1'09:49.23	8	1'17:49.23	31
	Sören Wikström	1'08:13.34	5	1'13:13.34	12
	Ronnie Adolfsson	1'08:10.90	5	1'13:10.90	11

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
Sven Fahlén Per Andersson Sören Wikström Ronnie Adolfsson	6	1'40:44.62	10

¹ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

² One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

Bobsleigh

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
SWE-1	Carl-Erik Eriksson Kenth Rönn	Two-man	1:03.56	9	1:04.49	14	1:03.22	8	1:05.65	20	4:16.92	15

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
SWE-1	Carl-Erik Eriksson Peter Jansson Runald Beckman Kenth Rönn	Four-man	1:01.01	6	1:01.00	5	1:00.36	5	DSQ	–	DSQ	–

Cross-country skiing

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km	Sven-Erik Danielsson	43:41.21	18
	Benny Kohlberg	43:39.22	17
	Thomas Eriksson	43:11.88	11
	Thomas Wassberg	41:57.63
30 km	Stig Jäder	1'32:08.09	25
	Sven-Åke Lundbäck	1'31:31.96	17
	Benny Kohlberg	1'30:57.56	13
	Thomas Wassberg	1'28:40.35	4
50 km	Stig Jäder	DNF	–
	Erik Gustavsson	2'43:39.93	34
	Thomas Eriksson	2'36:33.85	16
	Sven-Åke Lundbäck	2'31:59.65	8

Men's 4 x 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Sven-Åke Lundbäck Thomas Eriksson Benny Kohlberg Thomas Wassberg	2'00:42.71	5

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
5 km	Karin Lamberg-Skog	15:55.07	17
	Eva Olsson	15:48.59	12
	Marie Johansson-Risby	15:47.19	11
	Lena Carlzon-Lundbäck	15:43.04	10
10 km	Karin Lamberg-Skog	32:10.44	17
	Marie Johansson-Risby	31:48.57	15
	Lena Carlzon-Lundbäck	31:45.50	11
	Eva Olsson	31:36.08	10

Women's 4 x 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Marie Johansson-Risby Karin Lamberg-Skog Eva Olsson Lena Carlzon-Lundbäck	1'05:16.32	6

Figure skating

Men

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Thomas Öberg	14	14	14	149.80	127	14

Ice hockey

First round - Blue Division

	Team advanced to the Final Round
	Team advanced to Consolation Round

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Sweden	5	4	0	1	26	7	9
United States	5	4	0	1	25	10	9
Czechoslovakia	5	3	2	0	34	16	6
Romania	5	1	3	1	13	29	3
West Germany	5	1	4	0	21	30	2
Norway	5	0	4	1	9	36	1

All times are local (UTC-5).

12 February 1980
17:21

Sweden

2 – 2
(1–0, 0–1, 1–1)

United States

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid


			Referee: Dombrovski
Andersson (Molin, Lundqvist) - 11:04 T. Eriksson (Lückner) - 44:45	1 – 0 1 – 1 2 – 1 2 – 2	39:32 - Silk (Ramsey, Johnson) 59:33 - Baker (Pavelich, Schneider)
8 min	Penalties	6 min
36	Shots	29

14 February 1980
13:00

Romania

0 – 8
(0–3, 0–4, 0–1)

Sweden

Olympic Arena, Lake Placid


			Referee: Karl-Gustav Kaisla
	0 – 1 0 – 2 0 – 3 0 – 4 0 – 5 0 – 6 0 – 7 0 – 8	00:40 - Åhlberg (Näslund) 05:59 - Lundqvist (Samuelsson, Berglund) 07:42 - J. Eriksson (Waltin) 21:50 - T. Eriksson (Söderström, Molin) (PP) 28:05 - Molin 32:31 - Molin (Berglund) 37:17 - Lundholm (H. Eriksson) 50:18 - Jonsson (Holmgren)
26 min	Penalties	15 min
19	Shots	44

16 February 1980
20:00

Sweden

5 – 2
(1–0, 4–1, 0–1)

West Germany

Olympic Arena, Lake Placid


			Referee: Dombrovski
Berglund (Molin, Lundqvist) - 09:52 Näslund (Åhlberg) - 26:50 Lundqvist (Berglund, Samuelsson) - 28:35 Söderström (Åhlberg) - 32:36 Söderström (H. Eriksson) (PP) - 36:03	1 – 0 2 – 0 3 – 0 4 – 0 5 – 0 5 – 1 5 – 2	37:06 - Egen (Truntschka) 56:43 - Reil (SH)
24 min	Penalties	31 min
33	Shots	25

18 February 1980
13:30

Norway

1 – 7
(0–2, 0–4, 1–1)

Sweden

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid


			Referee: Vladimir Šubrt
Abrahamsen (Molberg, Foyn) - 51:08	0 – 1 0 – 2 0 – 3 0 – 4 0 – 5 0 – 6 0 – 7 1 – 7	14:03 - Åhlberg (Näslund) 16:20 - Åhlberg (Näslund, Holmgren) 23:48 - Åhlberg (Jonsson) (PP) 34:08 - Lundqvist (Lückner, Molin) 36:40 - Norberg (H. Eriksson, Waltin) 37:09 - Andersson (Lundqvist, Molin) 43:24 - Näslund (Åhlberg, Weinstock) (PP)
8 min	Penalties	8 min
12	Shots	43

20 February 1980
13:30

Czechoslovakia

2 – 4
(0–2, 0–1, 2–1)

Sweden

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid


			Referee: Karl-Gustav Kaisla
Nový (Pouzar) - 52:05 Pouzar (Nový, Kadlec) (PP) - 59:22	0 – 1 0 – 2 0 – 3 1 – 3 1 – 4 2 – 4	09:18 - Åhlberg (Näslund, Holmgren) (PP) 10:55 - Holmgren (Näslund, Weinstock) 36:02 - Näslund (Söderström) (PP) 57:00 - Lundqvist (Näslund, Jonsson)
6 min	Penalties	10 min
43	Shots	26

Final round

The top two teams from each group play the top two teams from the other group once. Points from previous games against their own group carry over, excluding teams who failed to make the medal round.

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
United States	3	2	0	1	10	7	5
Soviet Union	3	2	1	0	16	8	4
Sweden	3	0	1	2	7	14	2
Finland	3	0	2	1	7	11	1

22 February 1980
20:42

Finland

3 – 3
(1–0, 1–1, 1–2)

Sweden

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid


			Referee: Neagles
Leinonen (Porvari, Kiimalainen) - 03:00 Porvari (Eloranta) - 27:06 Leinonen (Porvari) - 47:59	1 – 0 2 – 0 2 – 1 2 – 2 2 – 3 3 – 3	30:25 - Weinstock 45:24 - Jonsson (Åhlberg, Holmgren) 46:14 - Waltin (Norberg)
6 min	Penalties	6 min
25	Shots	30

24 February 1980
14:30

Sweden

2 – 9
(0–4, 0–5, 2–0)

Soviet Union

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid


			Referee: Haley
Åhlberg (Weinstock, Holmgren) - 49:17 Holmgren (Näslund) - 54:21	0 – 1 0 – 2 0 – 3 0 – 4 0 – 5 0 – 6 0 – 7 0 – 8 0 – 9 1 – 9 2 – 9	00:36 - Petrov (Kharlamov) 05:52 - Makarov (A. Golikov) 10:31 - Maltsev (Bilyaletdinov, Pervukhin) 17:38 - Mikhailov (Kharlamov, Pervukhin) 20:33 - Vasiliev 27:18 - Krutov (Pervukhin) 28:14 - Skvortsov (Balderis, Pervukhin) 34:51 - Zhluktov (Balderis, Skvortsov) 35:02 - Fetisov
8 min	Penalties	12 min
26	Shots	28

Carried over group match:

Sweden 2–2 USA

Luge

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Stefan Kjernholm	44.565	14	44.905	11	44.900	10	48.538	22	3:02.908	18

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athletes	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Stefan Kjernholm Kenneth Holm	40.415	13	41.024	13	1:21.439	12

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Anneli Näsström	40.987	23	41.096	22	40.999	17	40.877	17	2:43.959	19
Agneta Lindskog	40.219	13	40.547	14	40.463	13	40.388	12	2:41.617	13

Ski jumping

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Jan Holmlund	Normal hill	75.0	101.7	71.0	93.8	195.5	34
Jan Holmlund	Large hill	75.0	26.2	DNS	–	26.2	50

Speed skating

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Johan Granath	1:21.44	36
	Oloph Granath	39.15	12
	Jan-Åke Carlberg	39.03	10
1000 m	Johan Granath	DNF	–
	Jan-Åke Carlberg	1:19.13	16
	Oloph Granath	1:17.74	8
1500 m	Jan Junell	2:02.11	21
	Ulf Ekstrand	2:00.23	16
	Tomas Gustafson	1:58.18	7
5000 m	Jan Junell	7:19.50	14
	Tomas Gustafson	7:16.85	12
	Ulf Ekstrand	7:13.13	8
10,000 m	Ulf Ekstrand	15:33.42	21
	Örjan Sandler	15:11.52	14
	Tomas Gustafson	15:05.18	12

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Annette Carlén-Karlsson	44.52	24
	Sylvia Filipsson	44.05	16
	Ann-Sofie Järnström	42.47	4
1000 m	Annette Carlén-Karlsson	1:28.25	10
	Sylvia Filipsson	1:28.18	9
	Ann-Sofie Järnström	1:28.10	8
1500 m	Annette Carlén-Karlsson	2:17.31	20
1500 m	Sylvia Filipsson	2:12.84	5
3000 m	Annette Carlén-Karlsson	4:52.70	18
3000 m	Sylvia Filipsson	4:40.22	7

References

Olympic Winter Games 1980, full results by sports-reference.com

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Sweden at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Contents

Medalists

Alpine skiing

Biathlon

Bobsleigh

Cross-country skiing

Figure skating

Ice hockey

First round - Blue Division

Final round

Luge

Ski jumping

Speed skating

References

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