Sweden at the 1928 Winter Olympics

Sweden at the Olympic Games
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At the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz
Competitors	24 (men) in 6 sports
Flag bearer	Viking Harbom, ice hockey (official)
Medals Rank: 3	Gold 2	Silver 2	Bronze 1	Total 5
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Athletes from Sweden competed in the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Per-Erik Hedlund	Cross-country skiing	Men's 50 km
Gold	Gillis Grafström	Figure skating	Men's singles
Silver	Gustaf Jonsson	Cross-country skiing	Men's 50 km
Silver	Sweden men's national ice hockey team Carl Abrahamsson   Nils Johansson   Wilhelm Petersén Emil Bergman   Ernst Karlberg   Kurt Sucksdorff Birger Holmqvist   Erik Larsson Gustaf Johansson   Bertil Linde Henry Johansson   Sigfrid Öberg	Ice hockey	Men's competition
Bronze	Volger Andersson	Cross-country skiing	Men's 50 km

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1928 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
18 km	Volger Andersson	DNF	–
	Sven Utterström	1'42:04	9
	Lars-Theodor Jonsson	1'41:59	7
	Per-Erik Hedlund	1'41:51	6
50 km	Anders Ström	5'21:54	7
	Volger Andersson	5'05:46
	Gustaf Jonsson	5'05:30
	Per-Erik Hedlund	4'52:03

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1928 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	CF	FS	Places	Points	Final rank
Gillis Grafström	Men's singles	1	1	12	1630.75

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1928 Winter Olympics

Group B

The top team (highlighted) advanced to the medal round.

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
Sweden	2	1	0	1	5	2
Czechoslovakia	2	1	1	0	3	5
Poland	2	0	1	1	4	5

February 11	Sweden	3:0 (1:0,1:0,1:0)	Czechoslovakia
February 12	Sweden	2:2 (1:0,1:2,0:0)	Poland

Medal round

The top teams from each of the three groups, plus Canada, which had received a bye into the medal round, played a 3 game round-robin to determine the medal winners.

Team	GP	W	L	GF	GA
Canada	3	3	0	38	0
Sweden	3	2	1	7	12
Switzerland	3	1	2	4	17
Great Britain	3	0	3	1	21

February 17	Canada	11:0 (4:0,5:0,2:0)	Sweden
February 18	Switzerland	0:4 (0:1,0:0,0:3)	Sweden
February 19	Sweden	3:1 (2:1,0:0,1:0)	Great Britain

2	Sweden (SWE)
	Carl Abrahamsson (Södertälje SK) Emil Bergman (Nacka SK) Birger Holmqvist (IK Göta) Gustaf Johansson (IK Göta) Henry Johansson (Södertälje SK) Nils Johansson (Djurgårdens IF) Ernst Karlberg (Djurgårdens IF) Erik Larsson (Hammarby IF) Bertil Linde (Karlbergs BK) Sigfrid Öberg (Hammarby IF) Wilhelm Petersén (Södertälje SK) Kurt Sucksdorff (IK Göta)

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1928 Winter Olympics

Events:

• 18 km cross-country skiing
• normal hill ski jumping

The cross-country skiing part of this event was combined with the main medal event of cross-country skiing. Those results can be found above in this article in the cross-country skiing section. Some athletes (but not all) entered in both the cross-country skiing and Nordic combined event, their time on the 18 km was used for both events. One would expect that athletes competing at the Nordic combined event, would participate in the cross-country skiing event as well, as they would have the opportunity to win more than one medal. This was not always the case due to the maximum number of athletes that could represent a country per event.

The ski jumping (normal hill) event was held separate from the main medal event of ski jumping, results can be found in the table below.

Athlete	Event	Cross-country			Ski Jumping				Total
		Time	Points	Rank	Distance 1	Distance 2	Total points	Rank	Points	Rank
Sven Eriksson	Individual	1'52:20	12.375	11	51.5	57.5	16.312	5	14.593	6

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1928 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Jump 1 (Dist.)	Jump 2 (Dist.)	Total
				Points	Rank
Sven-Olof Lundgren	Normal hill	48.0	59.0	16.708	5
Bertil Carlsson		51.5	61.0	16.187	10
Sven Eriksson		52.0	62.5 (fall)	11.500	31
Axel-Herman Nilsson		53.5	60.0	16.937	4

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1928 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Gustaf Andersson	47.9	23
1500 m	Gustaf Andersson	2:27.5	9
5000 m	Gustaf Andersson	9:09.7	9

References

• Olympic Winter Games 1928, full results by sports-reference.com