The Sweden national wheelchair rugby team represents Sweden in international

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. Sweden is the second most successful team in European competition, winning four gold medals at the European Championship. They have reached three

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, with their best finish being 5th in the 2000 Games in Sydney.

Competitive record

Paralympic Games

Sweden have appeared in two

, 2000 in Sydney and

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. They have qualified for the

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in Rio when they secured second place at the 2015 IWRF European Championship. The 2000 Paralympics in Sydney were the inaugural Games for wheelchair rugby after the sport was included as a demonstration event four years earlier. Sweden were one of eight teams competing for medals and were placed in group A, along with Switzerland and eventual gold and silver medalists the

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and

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. Sweden lost to both the States and Australia, but a good 44 - 35 win over the Swiss, saw them finish the preliminaries in third place. Although out of medal contention, Sweden beat both Germany and Great Britain to finish in fifth place, the highest placed European team and Sweden's best Paralympic placing to date. Sweden failed to qualify for both the 2004 and 2008 Games, but after winning the 2011 European Championship in Nottwil they qualified for the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. The team were placed in group B, with

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and in a repeat of their 2000 tournament they were grouped with the eventual gold and silver medalists, this time Australia and

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. They began the campaign with a convincing 52-42 win over Belgium but this was followed by defeat to Australia and a one point loss to the Canadians. By finishing third Sweden were again unable to play for the medals. In the positional playoffs they started strongly by beating France 58–48, but in their final match they were convincingly beaten by the host nation, Great Britain, to finish in sixth place.

IWRF World championship

References

External links

A Laypersons Guide to Wheelchair Rugby Classification

International Wheelchair Rugby Federation World Wheelchair Rugby (WWR) is the international governing body for the sport of wheelchair rugby. WWR is a volunteer-run organisation that supervises the international competitions and development of wheelchair rugby. It was created in 1993 ...

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Wheelchair Rugby Wheelchair rugby (originally murderball, and known as quad rugby in the United States) is a team sport for athletes with a disability. It is practised in over twenty-five countries around the world and is a summer Paralympic sport. The US name ...