Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...
competed at the
2022 Winter Olympics
The 2022 Winter Olympics (2022年冬季奥林匹克运动会), officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Beijing 2022 (2022), was an international winter multi-sport event held from 4 to 20 February 2022 in Beij ...
in
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, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022.
Oliwer Magnusson
Oliwer Magnusson (born 3 June 2000) is a Swedish freestyle skier who competes internationally.
Magnusson has competed in the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships since 2017, and participated in the 2018 as well as the 2022 Winter Olympics
...
and
Emma Nordin were the country's flagbearers during the
opening ceremony
An opening ceremony, grand opening, or ribbon-cutting ceremony marks the official opening of a newly-constructed location or the start of an event. .
Meanwhile biathlete
Elvira Öberg
Elvira Karin Öberg (born 26 February 1999) is a Swedish Biathlon, biathlete. She is the younger sister of Olympic champion Hanna Öberg. Elvira won three gold medals in the youth category at the Biathlon Junior World Championships 2018, 2018 Bia ...
was the flagbearer during the
closing ceremony
An opening ceremony, grand opening, or ribbon-cutting ceremony marks the official opening of a newly-constructed location or the start of an event. .
With eight gold medals and 18 medals in total, this was Sweden's most successful Winter Olympics of all time in terms of both gold and total number of medals, beating the previous records set in
2018
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and
2014
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, respectively. It marked the first time Sweden won medals in six different sports at the Winter Games, and they managed to win gold medals in these sports. Additionally, the country won its first (and second) gold medal in freestyle skiing, first gold medals in speed skating since
1988
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, and became the first country to win medals in all three events in curling at the same Winter Olympics.
Medalists
The following Swedish competitors won medals at the games. In the discipline sections below, the medalists' names are bolded.
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Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline.
Oskar Eriksson was selected in both the men's and mixed team events in curling.
Alpine skiing
SOC selected
Hanna Aronsson Elfman,
Elsa Fermbäck,
Kristoffer Jakobsen,
Sara Hector
Sara Maria Hector (born 4 September 1992) is a Swedish World Cup alpine ski racer. She has competed at six World Championships and won three medals in the team event, respectively in 2011, 2015 and 2021.
Hector gained her first World Cup victo ...
,
Hilma Lövblom,
Mattias Rönngren,
Anna Swenn-Larsson
Anna Swenn-Larsson (born 18 June 1991) is a Swedish World Cup alpine ski racer who specialises in slalom. She made her World Cup debut in a slalom at Courchevel in December 2010 and placed 26th; her first podium came on home snow at Åre in Marc ...
and
Charlotta Säfvenberg
Charlotta Säfvenberg (born 7 October 1994) is a Swedish alpine skier.
Career
Competing at the Junior World Championships in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015, her biggest success were the 2014 Junior World Championships where she won the silver m ...
;Men
;Women
;Mixed
Biathlon
Sweden qualified five men and six women in biathlon. SOC used all quotas and selected the nine athletes listed below as well as
Stina Nilsson
Stina Nilsson (born 24 June 1993) is a Swedish biathlete and former cross-country skier. She is a five-time Olympic medalist and the 2018 Olympic champion in the individual sprint. In March 2020 she announced that she would switch to competing in ...
and
Malte Stefansson[ who did not start in any events.
;Men
;Women
;Mixed
]
Cross-country skiing
Sweden qualified 16 athletes (8 men and 8 women) and four teams in cross-country skiing. The following athletes were selected by the SOC:[
;Distance
;Men
;Women
;Sprint
;Men
;Women
Johanna Hagström was reserve at home for women's sprint. ]Linn Svahn
Linn Svahn (born 9 December 1999) is a Swedish cross-country skier who represents the club Östersunds SK. On 14 December 2019, she won her first World Cup competition, when winning a sprint competition in Davos, Grisons, Switzerland.
Cross- ...
was originally selected as well but was deselected due to injury.
Curling
;Summary
Men's tournament
Sweden has qualified their men's team (five athletes), by finishing in the top six teams in the 2021 World Men's Curling Championship
The 2021 World Men's Curling Championship (branded as the 2021 BKT Tires & OK Tire World Men's Curling Championship for sponsorship reasons) was held from April 2 to 11 at the Markin MacPhail Centre at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Canada. Th ...
. On 4 June 2021, the Swedish Olympic Committee announced that Team Niklas Edin would be their men's team representatives.
Women's tournament
Sweden has qualified their women's team (five athletes), by finishing in the top six teams in the 2021 World Women's Curling Championship
The 2021 World Women's Curling Championship (branded as 2021 LGT World Women's Curling Championship for sponsorship reasons) was held 30 April to 9 May at the Markin MacPhail Centre at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alberta.
The event was orig ...
. On 4 June 2021, the Swedish Olympic Committee announced that Team Anna Hasselborg
Anna Ellinor Hasselborg (born 5 May 1989) is a Swedish curler who is the 2018 Olympic Champion in women's curling, and a former World Junior Champion skip. In November 2019, she became the first curler in history to reign as the simultaneous ho ...
would be their women's team representatives.
Mixed doubles tournament
Sweden has qualified their mixed doubles team (two athletes), by finishing in the top seven teams in the 2021 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship
The 2021 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from May 17 to 23 in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Because of cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this was the first of two events for mixed doubles teams to qualify for the 2022 Olympics ...
. On 4 June 2021, the Swedish Olympic Committee announced that Almida de Val and Oskar Eriksson would be their mixed doubles representatives.
Figure skating
Sweden qualified one male and one female figure skater, based on its placement at the 2021 World Figure Skating Championships
The 2021 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Stockholm, Sweden from March 22–28, 2021. Figure skaters competed for the title of world champion in men's singles, ladies' singles, pairs, and ice dance. The competition was used to det ...
in Stockholm, Sweden. Nikolaj Majorov
Nikolaj Majorov (born 18 August 2000) is a Swedish figure skater. He is the 2020 Swedish national champion.
Personal life
Majorov was born on 18 August 2000 in Luleå, Sweden. His parents – Alexander Majorov Sr., a figure skating coach, an ...
and Josefin Taljegård
Josefin Taljegård (born 26 August 1995) is a Swedish figure skater. She is the 2018 Nordics bronze medalist, a two-time Swedish national bronze medalist (2018, 2019), a two-time Swedish national silver medalist (2019, 2021), and a two-time Sw ...
were selected in January 2022.[
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Freestyle skiing
SOC selected fourteen athletes in freestyle.[
;Freeski
;Moguls
Albin Holmgren was originally selected but was deselected due to injury.
;Ski cross
]
Ice hockey
;Summary
Key:
* OT – Overtime
* GWS – Match decided by penalty-shootout
Men's tournament
Sweden men's national ice hockey team qualified a team of 25 players by finishing 4th in the 2019 IIHF World Ranking
The IIHF World Ranking is a ranking of the performance of the national ice hockey teams of member countries of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). It is based on a formula giving points for each team's placings at IIHF-sanctioned tour ...
. SOC selected the team in June 2021.
Women's tournament
Sweden women's national ice hockey team
The Swedish women's national ice hockey team ( sv, Sveriges damlandslag i ishockey) or Damkronorna ("the Lady Crowns" in Swedish) represents Sweden at the International Ice Hockey Federation's IIHF World Women's Championships. The women's nation ...
qualified by winning a final qualification tournament. SOC selected the team for the games shortly thereafter.
;Team roster
;Group play
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;Quarterfinal
Luge
Sweden qualified one woman and one man in luge. SOC selected siblings Svante Kohala
Svante Kohala (born 9 February 1998) is a Swedish luger who competes internationally.
He represented his country at the 2022 Winter Olympics.https://olympics.com/beijing-2022/olympic-games/en/results/luge/athlete-profile-n1042375-svante-kohala ...
and Tove Kohala
Tove Kohala (born 29 January 2001) is a Swedish luger who competes internationally.
She represented her country at the 2022 Winter Olympics.https://olympics.com/beijing-2022/olympic-games/en/results/luge/athlete-profile-n1042376-tove-kohala.ht ...
.
Ski jumping
Sweden qualified one athlete in ski jumping. SOC selected Frida Westman
Frida Westman (born 10 January 2001) is a Swedish ski jumper who competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics. She was the first Swedish female ski jumper at an Olympic Games. Westman has the best finish by any Swedish female ski jumper at a FIS Ski Ju ...
.[ She was Sweden's first woman to compete in the sport. It was also Sweden's first participation in the sport since the 1994 games.
]
Snowboarding
Sweden qualified two athletes in big air and slopestyle. SOC selected Niklas Mattsson
Niklas Mattsson (born 16 March 1992) is a snowboarder
Snowboarding is a recreational and competitive activity that involves descending a snow-covered surface while standing on a snowboard that is almost always attached to a rider's feet. It f ...
and Sven Thorgren
Sven Thorgren (born 4 October 1994) is a Swedish snowboarder who competes in slopestyle.
He started snowboarding when he was seven years old. He practiced every day after school on a small mountain called Väsjöbacken. Thorgren qualified for t ...
.
Speed skating
Nils van der Poel
Nils Göran van der Poel (; born 25 April 1996) is a Swedish speed skater
Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long ...
has qualified in men's 5 000 and 10 000 metres by finishing top 8 in the qualification points ranking. He was selected by SOC in November 2021.World record
A world record is usually the best global and most important performance that is ever recorded and officially verified in a specific skill, sport, or other kind of activity. The book ''Guinness World Records'' and other world records organization ...
See also
* Sweden at the 2022 Winter Paralympics
References
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