Sweden sent a team to compete at the
2008 Summer Olympics in
Beijing
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. This is a list of all of the Swedish athletes who participated in the Olympics.
Medalists
Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games.
Swedish Olympic Committee's website lists 131 participants. Their count also includes reserves:
Emma Karlsson
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and
Linda Heed in equestrian, 3 reserves in women's football team, 1 reserve in women's handball team and
Robert Svensson in men's table tennis team.
Neither count includes
Alexandra Engen who was qualified and selected and was practicing on the Olympic course when she fell and was injured, which caused her to miss the competition.
Archery
Athletics
;Men
;Track & road events
;Field events
;Women
;Track & road events
;Field events
Badminton
Boxing
Canoeing
Sprint
Qualification Legend: QS = Qualify to semi-final; QF = Qualify directly to final
Cycling
Road
;Men
;Women
Mountain biking
Alexandra Engen was scheduled to participate in
women's cross-country. However, she was injured during the practice on the Olympic course and was unable to compete due to that.
Diving
;Women
Equestrian
Dressage
Emma Karlsson
Emma Karlsson (born 16 May 1998) is a retired Swedish badminton player. She won gold at the 2017 European Junior Championships in the girls' doubles event with her partner, Johanna Magnusson. Karlsson won her first senior international title at ...
was a reserve.
Eventing
# - Indicates that points do not count in team total
Show jumping
Linda Heed was reserve.
Fencing
;Women
Football
;Summary
Women's tournament
;Roster
;Group play
;Quarterfinal
Handball
;Summary
Women's tournament
;Roster
;Group play
;Quarterfinal
;Classification semifinal
;7th–8th place
Rowing
;Men
;Women
Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage
Sailing
;Men
;Women
;Open
M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race; CAN = Race cancelled
Shooting
;Men
;Women
Swimming
;Men
;Women
Table tennis
;Singles
;Team
Robert Svensson was the reserve for the men's team.
Taekwondo
Tennis
Triathlon
Wrestling
;Men's Greco-Roman
* Ara Abrahamian won the bronze medal, but later disqualified and stripped off his medal after a protest during the medal ceremony. He stepped off the podium and put the medal on the floor and walked off, before the gold and silver medals had been awarded. His action was in protest at a controversial penalty call in his semifinal against Italy's Andrea Minguzzi
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Biography
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. The medal, however, was not awarded to another athlete. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said the Swede was punished for violating the spirit of fair play during the medal ceremony.
;Women's freestyle
Missing athletes
The following athletes did not qualify for the Olympics despite having won a nomination or being among the top of the world in their sport. This could either be due to injuries, failing to achieve the national and/or international standards or due to heavy competition from fellow Swedish athletes.
Athletics
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Robert Kronberg
Leif Robert Kronberg (born August 15, 1976 in Göteborg, Västra Götaland) is a Swedish male hurdler of Serbian descent.
He finished 8th in the 110m hurdles final at the 2000 Olympics. He competed again in the 2004 Olympics, reaching the semi-f ...
- men's 110 metres hurdles (A - norm, 13.53 July 16, 2008 Luzern)
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Christian Olsson - injury, men's triple jump (A - norm, 17.00 July 22, 2008 Stockholm)
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Nicklas Wiberg
Nicklas Robert Wiberg (born 16 April 1985 in Stockholm) is a male decathlete from Sweden. He set his personal best score (8406 points) in the men's decathlon on 20 August 2009 in Berlin
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- men's decathlon (A - norm, 8040 June 29, 2008 Jyvaskyla)
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Jessica Samuelsson - women's heptathlon (A - norm, 6111 June 1, 2008 Götzis)
See also
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Sweden at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Sweden sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing.
Medalists
Archery
;Women
;Men
Athletics
Women's team
Men's team
Equestrian
Goalball
Women
Åsa Alverstedt,
Malin Gustavsson,
Maria Juliusson,
J ...
References
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