Sweden at the 2006 Winter Olympics

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Sweden sent 112 athletes to the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin trying to win their first gold medal since the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer. A total of 99 athletes were selected, and they competed in nine of the fifteen Winter Olympic sports. When the medals were summed up, Sweden had managed seven gold medals, two silver and five bronze, making it Sweden's best result ever in the Winter Olympics in terms of both medals and gold medals earned,[1] and gave Sweden a 6th place in the medal table.

Sweden won gold medals in five different Winter Olympic sports, shattering the previous record of two.

Medalists

The following Swedish athletes won medals at the games:

Medal Name Sport Event Date
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Björn Lind		 Cross-country skiing Men's team sprint 14 February
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Anna Dahlberg		 Cross-country skiing Women's team sprint 14 February
Template:Gold medal Template:Sortname Alpine skiing Women's slalom 22 February
Template:Gold medal Template:Sortname Cross-country skiing Men's individual sprint 22 February
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Cathrine Lindahl
Eva Lund
Anette Norberg
Anna Svärd		 Curling Women's tournament 23 February
Template:Gold medal Template:Sortname Biathlon Women's mass start 25 February
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Template:Columns-list 		Ice hockey Men's tournament 26 February
Template:Silver medal Template:Sortname Biathlon Women's sprint 16 February
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Template:Columns-list 		Ice hockey Women's tournament 20 February
Template:Bronze medal Template:Sortname Alpine skiing Women's downhill 15 February
Template:Bronze medal Template:Sortname Alpine skiing Women's combined 18 February
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Mats Larsson
Johan Olsson
Anders Södergren		 Cross-country skiing Men's 4 × 10 km relay 19 February
Template:Bronze medal Template:Sortname Cross-country skiing Men's individual sprint 22 February
Template:Bronze medal Template:Sortname Alpine skiing Women's giant slalom 24 February

Alpine skiing

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2004 and 2005 World Cup overall champion Anja Pärson won bronze medals in the women's combined and downhill, before claiming her first Olympic gold medal in the slalom.[2] Anna Ottosson also earned a medal, winning the second run in the women's giant slalom to claim bronze.[3]

Men
Athlete[3] Event Final
Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Total Rank
Johan Brolenius Slalom 54.37 50.44 n/a 1:44.81 8
Combined 1:43.56 45.20 44.51 3:13.27 18
Martin Hansson Slalom 54.50 50.74 n/a 1:45.24 10
Patrik Järbyn Downhill n/a 1:52.87 33
Super-G n/a 1:32.21 24
Markus Larsson Slalom did not finish
Combined 1:41.22 46.38 44.74 3:12.34 11
André Myhrer Slalom 53.95 50.23 n/a 1:44.18 4
Fredrik Nyberg Giant slalom 1:16.83 1:19.22 n/a 2:36.05 5
Women
Athlete[3] Event Final
Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Total Rank
Nike Bent Downhill n/a 1:59.17 22
Super-G n/a 1:34.41 21
Combined 40.66 45.83 1:30.13 2:56.62 14
Therese Borssén Slalom 43.21 47.87 n/a 1:31.08 8
Janette Hargin Downhill n/a 1:58.53 17
Super-G n/a 1:34.48 22
Combined 40.06 44.78 1:31.29 2:56.13 12
Jessica Lindell-Vikarby Downhill n/a 1:58.56 18
Super-G n/a 1:34.78 24
Giant slalom 1:02.12 1:11.24 n/a 2:13.36 18
Combined 40.04 44.96 1:30.19 2:55.19 8
Anna Ottosson Giant slalom 1:02.04 1:08.29 n/a 2:10.33 File:Bronze medal icon.svg
Slalom 44.09 47.99 n/a 1:32.08 18
Anja Pärson Downhill n/a 1:57.13 File:Bronze medal icon.svg
Super-G n/a 1:33.88 12
Giant slalom 1:01.07 1:09.89 n/a 2:10.96 6
Slalom 42.38 46.66 n/a 1:29.04 File:Gold medal icon.svg
Combined 38.75 43.31 1:29.57 2:51.63 File:Bronze medal icon.svg
Maria Pietilä-Holmner Giant slalom 1:02.00 1:09.69 n/a 2:11.69 10
Slalom 44.16 48.31 n/a 1:32.47 21

Note: In the men's combined, run 1 is the downhill, and runs 2 and 3 are the slalom. In the women's combined, run 1 and 2 are the slalom, and run 3 the downhill.

Biathlon

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Anna Carin Olofsson, who had switched from cross-country skiing to biathlon just four years earlier, became the first Swedish woman to win a gold medal in biathlon.[4] Olofsson also won a silver in the sprint event. The men's relay team fell short of a medal in a photo finish, having greatly hurt their chances by missing 12 shots.[5]

Athlete[4] Event Final
Time Misses Rank
Carl Johan Bergman Men's sprint 29:21.5 0 54
Men's pursuit did not start
Men's mass start 50:54.4 4 29
Men's individual 57:30.9 3 23
David Ekholm Men's sprint 28:33.2 2 38
Men's pursuit 39:43.86 5 38
Men's individual 59:18.2 2 35
Björn Ferry Men's sprint 27:31.1 2 13
Men's pursuit 38:25.52 6 25
Men's mass start 48:56.4 2 18
Men's individual 58:49.0 4 28
Mattias Nilsson Men's sprint 27:18.5 0 7
Men's pursuit 37:47.45 3 20
Men's mass start 48:37.7 1 14
Men's individual 1:00:01.1 5 44
Anna Carin Olofsson Women's sprint 22:33.8 1 File:Silver medal icon.svg
Women's pursuit 40:06.19 8 14
Women's mass start 40:36.5 1 File:Gold medal icon.svg
Women's individual 52:55.8 5 15
Jakob Börjesson
Björn Ferry
Mattias Nilsson
Carl Johan Bergman 		Men's relay 1:22:35.1 12 4

Cross-country skiing

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A total of fifteen athletes – ten men and five women – were selected, making the cross-country squad the largest excluding the ice hockey teams.

Emelie Öhrstig was the defending World Champion at the women's sprint event, but that was in classical style, and she failed to make the final in Turin.[6] Björn Lind, leader of the men's cross-country World Cup in sprint,[7] was more successful, winning the gold medal and then pairing with bronze medalist Thobias Fredriksson to win the team sprint event as well.[8]

The women's sprint team of Lina Andersson and Anna Dahlberg joined their male counterparts in winning gold, while the men's 4 × 10 km relay claimed the only Swedish medal from a distance event, a bronze.[8]

Distance
Men
Athlete[8] Event Final
Total Rank
Jörgen Brink 30 km pursuit 1:19:35.3 30
50 km freestyle 2:11:19.2 51
Mathias Fredriksson 15 km classical 39:19.1 13
30 km pursuit 1:17:23.1 15
50 km freestyle 2:06:17.1 10
Mats Larsson 15 km classical 39:51.7 19
Johan Olsson 15 km classical 38:38.8 6
30 km pursuit 1:18:47.9 23
50 km freestyle 2:07:00.9 25
Anders Södergren 15 km classical 39:17.1 10
30 km pursuit 1:17:04.3 5
50 km freestyle 2:06:14.1 6
Mats Larsson
Johan Olsson
Anders Södergren
Mathias Fredriksson 		4 x 10 km relay 1:44:01.7 File:Bronze medal icon.svg
Women
Athlete[8] Event Final
Total Rank
Lina Andersson 10 km classical 30:25.53 33
30 km freestyle Did not finish
Elin Ek 10 km classical 29:40.9 23
15 km pursuit 46:02.7 31
Britta Norgren 10 km classical 29:07.1 11
15 km pursuit 44:18.0 15
30 km freestyle 1:28:21.9 28
Emelie Öhrstig 10 km classical 31:31.6 47
Anna-Carin Strömstedt 15 km pursuit 47:51.3 47
30 km freestyle 1:28:29.4 30
Anna Dahlberg
Elin Ek
Britta Norgren
Anna-Carin Strömstedt 		4 x 5 km relay 55:00.3 4
Sprint
Athlete[8] Event Qualifying Quarterfinal Semifinal Final
Total Rank Total Rank Total Rank Total Rank
Lina Andersson Women's sprint 2:13.29 3 Q 2:16.0 3 Did not advance 11
Anna Dahlberg Women's sprint 2:15.91 12 Q 2:14.3 1 Q 2:18.9 5 Did not advance 10
Thobias Fredriksson Men's sprint 2:18.90 19 Q 2:23.2 2 Q 2:25.9 1 Q 2:27.8 File:Bronze medal icon.svg
Peter Larsson Men's sprint 2:16.62 9 Q 2:23.3 3 Did not advance 13
Björn Lind Men's sprint 2:13.53 1 Q 2:21.5 1 Q 2:19.6 1 Q 2:26.5 File:Gold medal icon.svg
Britta Norgren Women's sprint 2:16.43 19 Q 2:15.0 3 Did not advance 13
Emelie Öhrstig Women's sprint 2:16.75 21 Q 2:19.9 5 Did not advance 22
Mikael Östberg Men's sprint 2:16.24 6 Q 2:26.7 3 Did not advance 12
Thobias Fredriksson
Björn Lind 		Men's team sprint n/a 17:34.0 1 Q 17:02.9 File:Gold medal icon.svg
Lina Andersson
Anna Dahlberg 		Women's team sprint n/a 17:33.5 3 Q 16:36.9 File:Gold medal icon.svg

Curling

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Summary
Team Event Group stage Tiebreaker Semifinal Final / BM
Opposition
Score 		Opposition
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Score 		Rank
Peja Lindholm
Tomas Nordin
Magnus Swartling
Peter Narup
Anders Kraupp 		Men's tournament Template:FlagIOCshort
W 6–3 		Template:FlagIOCshort
W 7–5 		Template:FlagIOCshort
W 8–7 		Template:FlagIOCshort
L 4–9 		Template:FlagIOCshort
L 6–10 		Template:FlagIOCshort
L 4–11 		Template:FlagIOCshort
L 2–8 		Template:FlagIOCshort
L 5–7 		Template:FlagIOCshort
L 3–8 		9 did not advance 9
Anette Norberg
Eva Lund
Cathrine Lindahl
Anna Svärd
Ulrika Bergman 		Women's tournament Template:FlagIOCshort
W 7–5 		Template:FlagIOCshort
L 3–10 		Template:FlagIOCshort
W 8–6 		Template:FlagIOCshort
W 8–4 		Template:FlagIOCshort
W 5–4 		Template:FlagIOCshort
W 9–7 		Template:FlagIOCshort
W 10–5 		Template:FlagIOCshort
W 8–7 		Template:FlagIOCshort
L 4–6 		1 Q BYE Template:FlagIOCshort
W 5–4 		Template:FlagIOCshort
W 7–6 		Template:Gold01

In the men's event, three-time World champion Peja Lindholm had a strong start, opening the tournament 3–0, including a win over eventual gold-medalists Canada, but fell off as the week continued, losing six consecutive games to finish out of the medal round.[9]

On the women's side, Anette Norberg, the 2005 World champion, and a six-time European champion, led her team to the top spot in the round robin. The Swedes then survived a close game with Norway in the semifinal, winning with a single point in the final end. In the gold medal game, Norberg's rink had a comfortable lead, but saw Switzerland storm back to tie and force an extra end. In that extra, Norberg converted a difficult double takeout to win the gold medal.[9]

Men's

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Team: Peja Lindholm (skip), Tomas Nordin, Magnus Swartling, Peter Narup, Anders Kraupp (alternate)

Round-robin
Draw 1

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Draw 2

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Draw 3

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Draw 4

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Draw 6

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Draw 7

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Draw 8

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Draw 10

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Draw 11

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Standings
Rank Team Skip Won Lost
1 Template:FlagIOC Markku Uusipaavalniemi 7 2
2 Template:FlagIOC Brad Gushue 6 3
3 Template:FlagIOC Pete Fenson 6 3
4 Template:FlagIOC David Murdoch 6 3
5 Template:FlagIOC Pål Trulsen 5 4
6 Template:FlagIOC Ralph Stöckli 5 4
7 Template:FlagIOC Joel Retornaz 4 5
8 Template:FlagIOC Peter Lindholm 3 6
9 Template:FlagIOC Andy Kapp 3 6
10 Template:FlagIOC Sean Becker 0 9

Women's

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File:Gold medal icon.svg: Anette Norberg (skip), Eva Lund, Cathrine Lindahl, Anna Svärd, Ulrika Bergman (alternate)

Round-robin
Draw 1

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Draw 2

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Draw 4

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Draw 5

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Draw 6

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Draw 7

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Draw 8

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Draw 9

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Draw 11

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Standings
Rank Team Skip Won Lost
1 Template:FlagIOC Anette Norberg 7 2
2 Template:FlagIOC Mirjam Ott 7 2
3 Template:FlagIOC Shannon Kleibrink 6 3
4 Template:FlagIOC Dordi Nordby 6 3
5 Template:FlagIOC Rhona Martin 5 4
6 Template:FlagIOC Ludmila Privivkova 5 4
7 Template:FlagIOC Ayumi Onodera 4 5
8 Template:FlagIOC Dorthe Holm 2 7
9 Template:FlagIOC Cassandra Johnson 2 7
10 Template:FlagIOC Diana Gaspari 1 8
Playoffs
Semifinal

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Final

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Key: The hammer indicates which team had the last stone in the first end.

Figure skating

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Kristoffer Berntsson, the lone Swedish figure skater in Turin, finished 23rd in the men's event.[10]

Athlete[10] Event CD SP/OD FS/FD Total
Points Rank Points Rank Points Rank Points Rank
Kristoffer Berntsson Men's n/a 59.55 23 Q 102.40 22 161.95 23

Key: CD = Compulsory Dance, FD = Free Dance, FS = Free Skate, OD = Original Dance, SP = Short Program

Freestyle skiing

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Four moguls skiers represented Sweden in the freestyle disciplines, with the best finish coming from Sara Kjellin in the women's event. Kjellin sat in bronze medal position with only a single skier to come, but that skier was eventual winner Jennifer Heil, leaving Kjellin just short of a medal.[11]

Athlete[11] Event Qualifying Final
Points Rank Points Rank
Jesper Björnlund Men's moguls 23.97 8 Q 25.21 5
Fredrik Fortkord Men's moguls 22.87 17 Q 20.58 19
Sara Kjellin Women's moguls 24.85 3 Q 24.74 4
Per Spett Men's moguls 21.53 23 did not advance 23

Ice hockey

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Summary

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Team Event Group stage Quarterfinal Semifinal / Pl. Final / BM / Pl.
Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Rank Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Rank
Sweden men's Men's tournament Template:Ih
W 7–2 		Template:Ih
L 0–5 		Template:Ih
W 6–1 		Template:Ih
W 2–1 		Template:Ih
L 0–3 		3 Q Template:Ih
W 6–2 		Template:Ih
W 7–3 		Template:Ih
W 3–2 		Template:Gold01
Sweden women's Women's tournament Template:Ihw
W 3–1 		Template:Ihw
W 11–0 		Template:Ihw
L 1–8 		— 2 Q — Template:Ihw
W 3–2 SO 		Template:Ihw
L 1–4 		Template:Silver02

The Swedish men's team suffered an early setback when it lost 5–0 to Russia, but wins over Kazakhstan, Latvia and the United States meant that the team was guaranteed a quarterfinal spot entering the final round-robin game with Slovakia. This game stirred up controversy, with head coach Bengt-Åke Gustafsson suggesting that the team might not play for a win, in order to set up a quarterfinal matchup with underdog Switzerland. Ultimately, the Swedes did lose the game, though the IIHF supervisor "didn't see anything special".[12] The team then picked up comfortable wins in the medal round, beating the Swiss 5–2 and the Czech Republic 7–3, setting up a gold medal final with local rivals Finland.[13] The Swedes fell behind after the first period, but a pair of goals in the second left the game tied going into the final 20 minutes. Nicklas Lidström then scored early in the third, giving the Swedes a 3–2 lead that would hold, and giving the country its first Olympic hockey title since 1994.[14] Thousands of fans greeted the victorious team upon their return from Turin, with many of the NHL players stopping in Stockholm before returning to their club teams.[15]

The women's team managed to advance to the medal round in the Olympic tournament, but an 8–1 loss to Canada only seemed to enhance the perception that women's hockey had few competitive teams.[16] In the semifinals, the Swedes faced the United States, and fell behind 2–0 early in the second period. However, the Swedes then rallied, scoring twice to tie the game, and shut down the favoured Americans, forcing a shootout to decide the game. Swedish goaltender Kim Martin stopped four American shooters, while Pernilla Winberg and Maria Rooth scored for Sweden.[13] This was the first game in which any team other than Canada had beaten the United States, and made Sweden the first team outside the top two to advance to a major final.[17] The final was not as close, with Canada pulling out to a 4–0 lead by the halfway mark. Still, earning silver medal was a significant accomplishment for the Swedish women.

Men's

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Roster

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Round-robin

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Medal round
Quarterfinal

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Semifinal

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Final

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Women's

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Roster

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Results
Round-robin

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Medal round
Semifinal

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Final

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Snowboarding

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Thirteen snowboarders represented Sweden across the three events, but only one, Maria Danielsson, earned a top-ten finish, which Danielsson did in the women's snowboard cross.[18]

Halfpipe
Athlete[18] Event Qualifying run 1 Qualifying run 2 Final
Points Rank Points Rank Run 1 Run 2 Rank
Stefan Karlsson Men's halfpipe 11.5 39 8.7 34 did not advance 40
Micael Lundmark Men's halfpipe 32.5 13 27.2 21 did not advance 27
Anna Olofsson Women's halfpipe 27.4 15 24.4 16 did not advance 22
Mikael Sandy Men's halfpipe 19.7 29 14.0 30 did not advance 36

Note: In the final, the single best score from two runs is used to determine the ranking. A bracketed score indicates a run that wasn't counted.

Parallel GS
Athlete[18] Event Qualification Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
Time Rank Opposition
time 		Opposition
time 		Opposition
time 		Opposition
time 		Rank
Daniel Biveson Men's parallel giant slalom 1:12.15 16 Q Template:FlagIOCathlete (1)
L +0.52 (+0.14 +0.38) 		did not advance 16
Filip Fischer Men's parallel giant slalom 1:13.43 23 did not advance 23
Sara Fischer Women's parallel giant slalom did not finish 30
Aprilia Hägglöf Women's parallel giant slalom 1:12.15 16 Q Template:FlagIOCathlete (1)
L +1.13 (+0.34 +0.79) 		did not advance 16
Richard Richardsson Men's parallel giant slalom 1:11.46 11 Q Template:FlagIOCathlete (6)
L +1.44 (+0.37 +1.07) 		did not advance 12

Key: '+ Time' represents a deficit; the brackets indicate the results of each run.

Snowboard Cross
Athlete[18] Event Qualifying 1/8 finals Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
Time Rank Position Position Position Position Rank
Mattias Blomberg Men's snowboard cross 1:22.48 24 Q 3 did not advance 28
Maria Danielsson Women's snowboard cross 1:30.01 5 Q n/a 2 Q 4 Classification 5-8
2 		6
Jonte Grundelius Men's snowboard cross 1:21.85 14 Q 4 did not advance 21
Jonatan Johansson Men's snowboard cross 1:23.38 31 Q 2 3 did not advance Classification 9-12
4 		12

Speed skating

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In the 1000 metres, Erik Zachrisson blocked Russia's Dmitry Dorofeyev, who was ahead of the pace of gold medalist Shani Davis at the time.[19] Zachrisson ended up being disqualified.[20]

Athlete[20] Event Race 1 Final
Time Rank Time Rank
Johan Röjler Men's 1500 m n/a 1:50.50 33
Men's 5000 m n/a 6:29.24 12
Men's 10000 m n/a 13:29.50 10
Erik Zachrisson Men's 500 m 35.80 35.81 1:11.61 20
Men's 1000 m disqualified

Notes and references

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Further reference

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