11 medals in 26 Olympic Games tournaments

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1 11 medals in 26 Olympic Games tournaments Sweden has won totally 11 Olympic Games medals during 26 tournaments. Sweden s mens team has won nine Olympic Games medals during 21 tournaments. Sweden won the Gold Medal in 2006 and 1994, Silver Medal in 2014, 1964 and 1928 and Bronze Medal in 1988, 1984, 1980 and Sweden s womens team has won two Olympic Games medals during 5 tournaments. Sweden won the Silver Medal in 2006 and Bronze Medal in Here is a list of Team Sweden s participating in Olympic Games Ice Hockey tournaments in Sochi in Russia, men Sweden won the Olympic Games Silver Medal in Sochi, Russia, Canada was too strong in the Gold Medal Game and won with 3-0. Canada was better and Sweden would have needed all their best players to make a better result in the final. Before the tournament started Sweden faced injuries on key players as Henrik Sedin and Johan Franzén. When the tournament started the team captain and first center Henrik Zetterberg got injured after one game and couldn t play any more in the Olympics. On top of these problems was second center Nicklas Bäckström relegated and missed the Gold Medal Game because of too high level of medicin in his body. One of the highlights in the tournament was the semi final winning game against Finland, 2-1. Defenceman Erik Karlsson was Sweden s scoring leader with 8 points after 4 goals and 4 assist. Team Sweden s results: Czech Republic 4-2, Switzerland 1-0, Latvia 5-3, Slovenia 5-0, Finland 2-1, Canada 0-3. Individual awards: The Olympic Games Directorate named Erik Karlsson best defencemen in the tournament. Henrik Lundqvist were named goalkeeper and Erik Karlsson defenceman in medias All Star Team in Sochi in Russia, women Sweden ended at fourth place in Sochi, Russia, Sweden lost the bronze medal game against Switzerland, 3-4. One of the highlights was the quarter final winning game against Finland, 4-2. Finland had the lead with 2-0 after two periods. Then Sweden scored four straight goals in the third period. Pernilla Winberg was Sweden s scoring leaders with 7 points after 3 goals and 4 assist in six games. Sweden s results: Japan 1-0, Germany 4-0, Russia 1-3, Finland 4-2, USA 1-6, Switzerland in Vancouver, Canada, men Team Sweden ended at fifth place in Olympic Games in Vancouver, Canada, Slovakia won against Sweden in the Quarter Final game with 4-3. Team Sweden s games: Germany 2-0, Belarus 4-2, Finland 3-0, Slovakia 3-4. Highlight of the tournament: Goalkeeper Henrik Lundqvist had a shutout when Sweden won against Finland with 3-0.

2 2010 in Vancouver, Canada, women Team Sweden ended at fourth place in Olympic Games in Vancouver, Canada, Finland won against Sweden in the Bronze Medal game with 3-2 after in Overtime. Team Sweden s games: Switzerland 3-0, Slovakia 6-2, Canada 1-3, USA 1-9, Finland 2-3. Highlight of the tournament: Forward Pernilla Winberg scored four goals in the 6-2 game against Slovakia in Torino in Italy, men In men s tournament Sweden won the Olympic Games Gold Medal. Highlights of the tournament: Winning the Gold Medal game with 3-2 against Finland. The Gold Medal winning goal was very nice to see, especially since three of Sweden s best players ever were involved in the operation. Mats Sundin was handling the face off in neutral zone and puck went away from him and then Peter Forsberg took it and went into Finland s zone and dropped the puck back to Sundin. He dropped it back to Nicklas Lidström who immediately took a magnific shot which went into the net in the upper left corner of the Finnish goal. This precision in the shot was extremely good and Nicklas Lidström really deserved this success. The Olympic Games directorate named Kenny Jönsson best defencemen in the tournament. Media named Nicklas Lidström defenceman in All Star Team. Results: Kazakhstan 7-2, Russia, 0-5, Latvia, 6-1, USA 2-1, Slovakia 0-3, Switzerland 6-2, Czech Republic 7-3, Finland in Torino in Italy, women In women s tournament Sweden won the Olympic Games Silver medal. Highlights of the tournament: The dramatic semi final game against USA which went to both Overtime and penalty shots. USA took a lead with 2-0 but two goals by Maria Rooth tied the game. After Overtime the penalty shooting started. Kim Martin was outstanding and six shoots was treated brilliant by her. Sweden s 15 year old Pernilla Winberg scored the game winning penalty shot. Maria Rooth also scored and confirmed the Swedish victory. It was the firs time ever Sweden won against USA and for the first time it resulted in a final game in World Championship or Olympic Games without USA. In the final Canada won against Sweden with 4-1. The Olympic Games directorate named Kim Martin best goalkeeper in the tournament. Media named Kim Martin goalkeeper and Maria Rooth forward in All Star Team. Results: Russia 3-1, Italy 11-0, Canada 1-8, USA 3-2, Canada in Salt Lake City and Provo in USA, men Team Sweden started the tournament very, very well and had three big wins in the first round, Canada 5-2, Czech Republic 2-1 and Germany 7-1. Then came the quarter final I the first round Sweden earned most points of all team and had the goal difference Therefore Team Sweden got the weakest team, Belarus, in the quarter final. Belarus faced three loosing games in the first round and the goal difference 6-22.

3 perioden. Lagkaptenen Mats Sundin är kung på isen och smäller in två mål på Sweden had 1-0, 2-2 and 3-3 but lost the game 3-4. It was a disaster for Sweden, the worst loss ever in Swedish hockey history. This game when Belarus knocked out Sweden might be the most sensational result ever in the Olympic Games history. Results mens team: Canada 5-2, Czech Republic 2-1, Germany 7-1, Belarus in Salt Lake City and Provo in USA, women National women s team wins the Bronze Medal in Olympic Games in Provo, USA, The women s team was beaten often earlier during the season and few dared to hope for any medal in Olympic Games. But the players and leaders believed in themselves. Forward Evelina Samuelsson scored both goals when Sweden won against Finland with 2-1 in the Bronze Medal game. Results womens team: Russia 3-2, Kazakhstan 7-0, Canada 0-11, USA 0-4, Finland in Nagano in Japan, men This was supposed to be the dream tournament, the best tournament ever played. NHL made a break and all the best players from the whole world came to Nagano in Japan. The results in this ice hockey tournament was very unexpected because all the top favourite team Canada, Sweden and USA failed. Swedish fans had reasons to dream about the Gold Medal since we had so many good players in our team: Tommy Salo, New York Islanders, Nicklas Lidström, Detroit red Wings, Mats Sundin, Toronto Maple Leafs, Peter Forsberg, Colorado Avalanche, and many others. Team Sweden started with winning over USA. The game quality wasn t as good as expected but at least we won and important players like Mats Sundin, Daniel Alfredsson and Peter Forsberg got points after goals and assists. After that is was only misery. Canada defeated us and then we won over Belarus. The the scandal came as it shoved that our defenceman Ulf Samuelsson, New York Rangers, had american citizenship. Since it was discovered he had played his last game in Team Sweden. In the quarter Final game we had to meet Finland. They showed us the way out of the tournament with their 2-1 victory. Teemu Selänne scored twice and became a celebrated Team Sweden killer. Peter Forsberg shot Team Sweden s only goal. It came 12 seconds before the end of the game and it was too late to help us. Team Sweden ended at 5 th place in the tournament, the same position as the Swedish womens team got. Results mens team: Sweden-USA 4-2, Sweden-Canada 2-3, Sweden-Belarus 5-2, Sweden-Finland in Nagano in Japan, women 1998 var första gången damerna fick spela I OS. Premiärturneringen var tuff för Sverige. Sverige vann en match och förlorade fyra och blev till slut femma i sin första OS-turnering. Malin Gustavsson, Erika Holst och Maria Rooth gjorde två mål vardera I turneringen. Results womens team: Sweden-Finland 0-6, USA-Sweden 7-1, Sweden-Canada 3-5, China-Sweden 3-1, Japan-Sweden in Lillehammer in Norway

4 Team Sweden won their first Olympic Gold Medal. In one of the most dramatic Final games in Olympic Games Ice Hockey history ever Team Sweden won over Canada in sudden death in penalty shoots. The final game was tied after ordinary game time, tied after maximum ten minutes sudden death and tied after ordinary penalty shoots. Big heroes in Team Sweden is center Peter Forsberg who makes a by now world famous goal and goalkeeper Tommy Salo who saves the last penalty shoot from Canada. Patrik Juhlin, playing for Ice Hockey club Västerås IK, is best scorer in Team Sweden with seven goals. Team Sweden s results: Slovakia 4-4, Italy 4-1, France 7-1, USA 6-4, Canada 2-3, Germany 3-0, Russia 4-3, Canada in Meribél in France It was a big disappointing result when Team Sweden finally ended up in fifth place behind CIS (Gold Medal), Canada (Silver Medal), Czechoslovakia (Bronze Medal) and USA (Fourth Place). Best scorers in Team Sweden was Tommy Sjödin, Brynäs IF, Börje Salming, AIK, Håkan Loob, Färjestads BK and Lars Edström, Luleå HF, who scored four goals each. Team Sweden s results: Poland 7-2, Italy 7-3, Germany 3-1, Finland 2-2, USA 3-3, Czechoslovakia 1-3, Finland 3-2, Germany in Calgary in Canada As the games were played many thought Team Sweden would grab the Silver Medal but in the last game in the tournament Finland surprisingly defeated Soviet Union with 2-1. Team Sweden then got the Bronze Medal behind Soviet Union (Gold Medal) and Finland (Silver Medal). Best Swedish scorers was Anders Eldebrink, Södertälje SK, Bo Berglund, AIK, and Håkan Södergren, Djurgårdens IF, who makes four goals each. Team Sweden s results: France 13-2, Poland 1-1, Switzerland 4-2, Finland 3-3, Canada 2-2, Czechoslovakia 6-2, Soviet Union 1-7, West Germany in Sarajevo in Yugoslavia Team Sweden get the Bronze Medal behind Soviet Union (Gold Medal) and Czechoslovakia (Silver Medal). Peter Gradin, AIK, is best Swedish scorer in making nine goals. Team Sweden s results: Italy 11-3, Yugoslavia 11-0, West Germany 1-1, Poland 10-1, Soviet Union 1-10, Czechoslovakia 0-2, Canada in Lake Placid in USA In the opening game we got tied with Team USA, 2-2. We felt that result as a loss because we didn t knew much about those college boys and they also tied the game with only 27 seconds left to play. Later we discovered that it was the only loss of points Team USA had in the whole tournament. Team USA won the Gold Medal and it was the biggest surprise ever in international Ice Hockey. Team Sweden got the Bronze Medal behind USA (Gold Medal) and Soviet Union (Silver Medal). Best Swedish scorer was Mats Åhlberg, Leksands IF, who scored six goals. Team Sweden s results: USA 2-2, Romania 8-0, West Germany 5-2, Norway 7-1, Czechoslovakia 4-2, Finland 3-3, Soviet Union in Innsbruck in Austria Swedish Ice Hockey Association didn t let Team Sweden play in Olympic Games. The explanation was that we saw ourselves as professional Ice Hockey players and shouldn t play with amateurs in Olympic Games

5 We had a Team Sweden II put together by players from our second league but Sweden s Olympic Committé refused to send anything else than the best ice hockey team and then it became no participating at all in Soviet Union won the Olympic Gold Medal, Czechoslovakia got the Silver Medal and West Germany won the Bronze Medal in Sapporo in Japan Team Sweden ended at fourth place behind Soviet Union (Gold Medal), USA (Silver Medal) and Czechoslovakia (Bronze Medal). Björn Palmqvist, Djurgårdens IF, is best scorer in Team Sweden with five goals. Team Sweden s results: Yugoslavia 8-1, USA 5-1, Soviet Union 3-3, Poland 5-3, Czechoslovakia 1-2, Finland in Grenoble in France Team Sweden ended up in fourth place behind Soviet Union (Gold Medal), Czechoslovakia (Silver Medal) and Canada (Bronze Medal). Håkan Wickberg, Brynäs IF, is best scorer in Team Sweden with his four goals. Team Sweden s results: USA 4-3, West Germany 5-4, East Germany 5-2, Finland 5-2, Canada 0-3, Soviet Union 2-3, Czechoslovakia 2-2. This tournament was counted as both Olympic Games and World 1964 in Innsbruck in Austria Team Sweden win the Silver Medal after Soviet union (Gold Medal). Sven Tumba, Djurgårdens IF, is making most points among all in the tournament. He also scores most goals, eight, in Team Sweden. Team Sweden s results: Italy 12-2 (qualification game), Canada 1-3, USA 7-4, Finland 7-0, West Germany 10-2, Switzerland 12-0, Soviet Union 2-4, Czechoslovakia 8-3. This tournament was counted as both Olympic Games and World 1960 in Squaw Valley in USA Team Sweden ended up in fifth place behind USA (Gold Medal), Canada (Silver Medal), Soviet Union (Bronze Medal), and Czechoslovakia (fourth place). Best scorer in Team Sweden is Lars-Eric Lundvall, Södertälje SK, who makes eight goals. Team Sweden s results: Canada 2-5 (qualification game), Japan 19-0 (qualification game), USA 3-6, Soviet Union 2-2, Czechoslovakia 1-3, Canada 5-6, West Germany 8-2. This tournament was counted as both Olympic Games and World 1956 in Cortina in Italy Team Sweden ended up in fourth place behind Soviet Union (Gold Medal), USA (Silver Medal) and Canada (Bronze Medal). Best scorer in Team Sweden is Sven Tumba, Djurgårdens IF, and Lars-Eric Lundvall, Södertälje SK, with three goals each. Team Sweden s results: Soviet Union 1-5 (qualification game), Switzerland 6-5 (qualification game), Soviet Union 1-4, USA 1-6, Czechoslovakia 5-0, Canada 2-6, West Germany 1-1. This tournament was counted as both Olympic Games and World 1952 in Oslo in Norway Team Sweden and Czechoslovakia ends up at third place with the same points and goal difference behind Canada (Gold Medal), and USA (Silver Medal). In the replay game Team Sweden win the Bronze Medal by defeating the Czechs. This replay gams is not counted in the final standings. Best scorer in Team Sweden is Göte

6 Blomqvist, Södertälje SK, who shoots seven goals. Team Sweden s results: Finland 9-2, Poland 17-1, Norway 4-2, West Germany 7-3, USA 4-2, Canada 2-3, Switzerland 5-2, Czechoslovakia 0-4, Czechoslovakia 5-3. This tournament was counted as both Olympic Games and World 1948 in S:t Moritz in Switzerland Team Sweden get a fifth place behind Canada (Gold Medal), Czechoslovakia (Silver Medal), Switzerland (Bronze Medal), and USA (fourth place). Best scorer in Team Sweden is Lars Ljungman, AIK, who shoots nine goals. Team Sweden s results: 1-3, Czechoslovakia 3-6, Austria 1-7, USA 2-5, Switzerland 2-6, England 4-3, Italy 23-0, Poland This tournament was counted as both Olympic Games and World 1936 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany Team Sweden share fifth place together with Germany behind England (Gold Medal), Canada (Silver Medal), USA (Bronze Medal), and Czechoslovakia (fourth place). Best scorer in Team Sweden is Yngve Liljeberg, IK Göta, who shoots three goals. Team Sweden s results: Japan 2-0, England 0-1, Austria1-0, Czechoslovakia 1-4, USA 1-2. This tournament was counted as both Olympic Games and World 1932 in Lake Placid in USA Team Sweden didn t participated because we couldn t afford the long travel over the ocean. Canada won the Gold Medal before USA (Silver Medal), and Germany (Bronze Medal). This tournament was counted as both Olympic Games and World 1928 in S:t Moritz in Switzerland Team Sweden won the Silver Medal after Canada (Gold Medal). We played five games and won three, got one tied and then Canada defeated us as usually, this time with Best scorer in Team Sweden was Gustaf Johansson, IK Göta, with five goals. Team Sweden s results: Czechoslovakia 3-0, Poland 2-2, Canada 0-11, Switzerland 4-0, England 3-1. This tournament was counted as both Olympic Games and World 1924 in Chamonix, in France Team Sweden ends up in fourth place behind Canada (Gold Medal), USA (Silver Medal), and England (Bronze Medal). The first games against the North Americans ends real bad. Canada won 22-0 (this is the biggest loss ever for Team Sweden) and USA won Best scorer in Team Sweden is Nils Molander, Berliner SC, with seven goals. Team Sweden s results: Canada 0-22, Czechoslovakia 9-3, Switzerland 9-0, USA 0-20, England 3-4. This tournament was counted as both Olympic Games and World 1920 summer Olympic Games in Antwerp in Belgium Team Sweden participate with an Ice Hockey team for the first time. The bandy players who had a quick education in Ice Hockey is reaching fourth place behind Canada (Gold Medal), USA (Silver Medal), and Czechoslovakia (Bronze Medal). Erik Burman, IK Göta, became the first scorer ever in Team Sweden when he shoots 1-0

7 against Belgium. He also became the best swedish scorer with eight goals. Team Sweden s results: Belgium 8-0, France 4-0, Canada 1-12, USA 0-7, Switzerland 4-0, Czechoslovakia 0-1.