Sweden at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Sweden at the Olympic Games
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At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney
Competitors	150 (98 men and 52 women) in 22 sports
Flag bearer	Anna Olsson, flatwater canoeing
Medals Rank: 18	Gold 4	Silver 5	Bronze 3	Total 12
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Sweden competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. 150 competitors, 98 men and 52 women, took part in 92 events in 22 sports.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Pia Hansen	Shooting	Women's double trap	19 September
Gold	Jonas Edman	Shooting	Men's 50 m rifle prone	21 September
Gold	Lars Frölander	Swimming	Men's 100 m butterfly	21 September
Gold	Mikael Ljungberg	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 97 kg	26 September
Silver	Therese Alshammar	Swimming	Women's 100 m freestyle	20 September
Silver	Therese Alshammar	Swimming	Women's 50 m freestyle	23 September
Silver	Jan-Ove Waldner	Table tennis	Men's singles	25 September
Silver	Henrik Nilsson Markus Oscarsson	Canoeing	Men's K-2 1000 m	30 September
Silver	Sweden men's national handball team Magnus Andersson   Stefan Lövgren Mattias Andersson   Staffan Olsson Martin Boquist   Johan Petersson Mathias Franzén   Tomas Sivertsson Martin Frändesjö   Tomas Svensson Peter Gentzel   Pierre Thorsson Andreas Larsson   Ljubomir Vranjes Ola Lindgren   Magnus Wislander	Handball	Men's competition	30 September
Bronze	Therese Alshammar Louise Jöhncke Anna-Karin Kammerling Josefin Lillhage Johanna Sjöberg Malin Svahnström	Swimming	Women's 4x100 m freestyle relay	16 September
Bronze	Kajsa Bergqvist	Athletics	Women's high jump	30 September
Bronze	Fredrik Lööf	Sailing	Men's Finn class

Archery

Main article: Archery at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Mattias Eriksson	Men's individual	616	42	Shikarev (KAZ) L 156–158	Did not advance
Niklas Eriksson		629	28	Rusnow (CAN) L 155–161	Did not advance
Magnus Petersson		646	6	Pombo (POR) W 165–146	Tang (CHN) W 157–148	Yang (CHN) W 167–164	22x20px Kim C-t (KOR) W 112–111	Wunderle (USA) L 107–108	van Alten (NED) L 109–114	4
Mattias Eriksson Niklas Eriksson Magnus Petersson	Men's team	1891	7	N/A		Australia L 238–241	Did not advance			9
Petra Ericsson	Women's individual	646	9	Martínez (CUB) W 154–146	Nowicka (POL) L 152–162	Did not advance
Karin Larsson		626	34	Wagner-Sachse (GER) W 147–146	Valeeva (ITA) L 160–162	Did not advance
Kristina Nordlander		618	45	Williamson (GBR) L 145–156	Did not advance
Petra Ericsson Karin Larsson Kristina Nordlander	Women's team	1890	8	N/A		United States L 230–242	Did not advance

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Men's 110 m hurdles

• Robert Kronberg

• Round 1 — 13.58
• Round 2 — 13.56
• Semifinal — 13.39
• Final — 13.61 (8th place)

Men's Javelin Throw

• Patrik Bodén

• Qualifying — 78.06 (did not advance)

Men's Long Jump

• Peter Häggström

• Qualifying — 7.83 (did not advance)

• Mattias Sunneborn

• Qualifying — 7.63 (did not advance)

Men's Triple Jump

• Christian Olsson

• Qualifying — 16.64 (did not advance)

Men's High Jump

• Stefan Holm

• Qualifying — 2.27
• Final — 2.32 (4th place)

• Staffan Strand

• Qualifying — 2.27
• Final — 2.32 (6th place)

Men's Pole Vault

• Patrik Kristiansson

• Qualifying — 5.55 (did not advance)

• Martin Eriksson

• Qualifying — 5.55 (did not advance)

Men's Decathlon

• Henrik Dagård

• 100 m — 10.84
• Long Jump — 7.08
• Shot Put — 14.97
• High Jump — 1.94
• 400 m — 48.75
• 100 m hurdles — 14.30
• Discus Throw — 42.95
• Pole Vault — 5.10
• Javelin Throw — 65.05
• 1,500 m — 04:49.51

• • Points — 8178.00 (10th place)

Women's 800 m Wheelchair

• Madeleine Nordlund

• Final — 01:57.82 (8th place)

Women's Discus

• Anna Söderberg

• Qualifying — 56.11 (did not advance)

Women's Long Jump

• Erica Johansson

• Qualifying — 6.53 (did not advance)

Women's Triple Jump

• Camilla Johansson

• Qualifying — 13.87 (did not advance)

Women's High Jump

• Kajsa Bergqvist

• Qualifying — 1.94
• Final — 1.99 (Bronze medal)

Badminton

Main article: Badminton at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Tomas Johansson	Men's singles	BYE	Mainaky (INA) L 11–15, 16–17	Did not advance
Rasmus Wengberg		BYE	Vaughan (GBR) L 8–15, 4–15	Did not advance
Peter Axelsson Pär-Gunnar Jönsson	Men's doubles	N/A	Helber / Siegemund (GER) W 15–7, 17–15	Hiang / Limpele (INA) L 12–15, 11–15	Did not advance
Fredrik Bergström Jenny Karlsson	Mixed doubles	N/A	Chuen / Chee Louisa (HKG) W 15–13, 10–15, 15–12	Zhang / Gao (CHN) L 6–15, 7–15	Did not advance

Beach volleyball

Main article: Beach volleyball at the 2000 Summer Olympics

• Björn Berg and Simon Dahl — 19th place (tied)

Canoeing

Main article: Canoeing at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Flatwater

Men's competition

Men's Kayak Singles 500 m

• Anders Svensson

• Qualifying Heat — 01:43.349
• Semifinal — 01:43.070 (did not advance)

Men's Kayak Singles 1000 m

• Johan Eriksson

• Qualifying Heat — 03:40.190
• Semifinal — 03:43.359 (did not advance)

Men's Kayak Doubles 500 m

• Henrik Nilsson, Markus Oscarsson

• Qualifying Heat — 01:30.051
• Semifinal — Bye
• Final — 01:56.301 (9th place)

Men's Kayak Doubles 1,000 m

• Henrik Nilsson, Markus Oscarsson

• Qualifying Heat — 03:15.102
• Semifinal — Bye
• Final — 03:16.075 (Silver medal)

Men's Kayak Fours 1,000 m

• Jonas Fager, Anders Gustafsson, Erik Lindeberg, Niklaes Persson

• Qualifying Heat — 03:04.420
• Semifinal — 03:02.611
• Final — 03:01.326 (8th place)

Women's competition

Women's Kayak Singles 500 m

• Anna Olsson

• Qualifying Heat — 01:52.782
• Semifinal — Bye
• Final — 02:24.774 (9th place)

Women's Kayak Doubles 500 m

• Anna Olsson, Ingela Ericsson

• Qualifying Heat — 01:45.491
• Semifinal — Bye
• Final — 02:04.574 (8th place)

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Road Cycling

Men's Individual Time Trial

• Martin Rittsel

• Final — 1:01:59 (30th place)

• Michael Andersson

• Final — 1:05:19 (37th place)

Men's Road Race

• Glenn Magnusson

• Final — 5:30:46 (28th place)

• Magnus Bäckstedt

• Final — DNF

• Michel Lafis

• Final — DNF

• Martin Rittsel

• Final — DNF

Diving

Main article: Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Women's 3 Metre Springboard

• Anna Lindberg

• Preliminary — 275.34
• Semi-final — 233.34 — 508.68
• Final — 325.83 — 559.17 (5th place)

Equestrianism

Main article: Equestrianism at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Fencing

Main article: Fencing at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Péter Vánky	Men's épée	Pchenikin (BLR) W 15–9	Milanoli (ITA) W 15–6	Obry (FRA) L 12–15	Did not advance

Football

Main article: Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Women's team competition

Team Roster

• Malin Andersson
• Kristin Bengtsson
• Sara Call
• Linda Fagerström
• Sara Johansson
• Caroline Jönsson
• Ulrika Karlsson
• Sara Larsson
• Hanna Ljungberg
• Åsa Lönnqvist
• Hanna Marklund
• Malin Moström
• Tina Nordlund
• Cecilia Sandell
• Therese Sjögran
• Victoria Svensson
• Malin Swedberg
• Ulla-Karin Thelin
• Jane Törnqvist
• Karolina Westberg

Handball

Main article: Handball at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Men's Competition:

• Gabriel Bengtsson

Women's Competition:

• Pernilla Andersson

Modern pentathlon

Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Women's Competition:

• Jeanette Malm — 4687 pts, 17th place

Men's Competition:

• Michael Brandt — 5154 pts, 12th place

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Sailing

Main article: Sailing at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Sweden won one bronze medal and competed in nine Sailing events at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Men's Mistral

• Fredrik Palm

• Race 1 — (30)
• Race 2 — 21
• Race 3 — (30)
• Race 4 — 2
• Race 5 — 12
• Race 6 — 14
• Race 7 — 26
• Race 8 — 22
• Race 9 — 25
• Race 10 — 28
• Race 11 — 15
• Final — 165 (23rd place)

Men's Single Handed Dinghy (Finn)

• Fredrik Lööf

• Race 1 — (17)
• Race 2 — 5
• Race 3 — 1
• Race 4 — 6
• Race 5 — 7
• Race 6 — 4
• Race 7 — 4
• Race 8 — (22)
• Race 9 — 2
• Race 10 — 11
• Race 11 — 7
• Final — 47 (Bronze medal)

Men's Double Handed Dinghy (470)

• Johan Molund and Mattias Rahm

• Race 2 — 10
• Race 3 — 7
• Race 4 — (30) OCS
• Race 5 — 2
• Race 6 — (29)
• Race 7 — 1
• Race 8 — 4
• Race 9 — 19
• Race 10 — 20
• Race 11 — 15
• Final — 96 (12th place)

Women's Single Handed Dinghy (Europe)

• Therese Torgersson

• Race 1 — 16
• Race 2 — 14
• Race 3 — (23)
• Race 4 — 20
• Race 5 — 18
• Race 6 — 22
• Race 7 — 20
• Race 8 — 21
• Race 9 — 17
• Race 10 — 11
• Race 11 — (23)
• Final — 159 (22nd place)

Women's Double Handed Dinghy (470)

• Lena Carlsson and Agneta Engström

• Race 1 — (18)
• Race 2 — 13
• Race 3 — 2
• Race 4 — 10
• Race 5 — 6
• Race 6 — 9
• Race 7 — 14
• Race 8 — 4
• Race 9 — 2
• Race 10 — 11
• Race 11 — (19)
• Final — 71 (9th place)

Open Laser

• Karl Suneson

• Race 1 — 10
• Race 2 — 5
• Race 3 — 3
• Race 4 — 24
• Race 5 — 19
• Race 6 — 17
• Race 7 — 8
• Race 8 — 14
• Race 9 — (44) OCS
• Race 10 — (44) OCS
• Race 11 — 7
• Final — 107 (14th place)

Open Two Handed Keelboat (Star)

• Mats Johansson and Leif Möller

• Race 1 — (12)
• Race 2 — (16)
• Race 3 — 9
• Race 4 — 12
• Race 5 — 9
• Race 6 — 11
• Race 7 — 9
• Race 8 — 8
• Race 9 — 10
• Race 10 — 7
• Race 11 — 10
• Final — 85 (13th place)

Open Three Handed Keelboat (Soling)

• Magnus Augustson, Johan Barne and Hans Wallen

• Round Robin Group 2 — (3-2) 3 points — Did not advance

Open High Performance Two Handed Dinghy (49er)

• John Harrysson and Patrik Sandeström

• Race 1 — 9
• Race 2 — 16
• Race 3 — 13
• Race 4 — (18) DSQ
• Race 5 — 15
• Race 6 — 15
• Race 7 — 15
• Race 8 — 14
• Race 9 — 12
• Race 10 — 15
• Race 11 — 15
• Race 12 — 16
• Race 13 — (18) OCS
• Race 14 — 14
• Race 15 — 15
• Race 16 — 18 DNF
• Final — 202 (17th place)

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Women's events

• Conny Persson
• Pia Hansen
• Monica Rundqvist

Men's events

• Tomas Johansson
• Jonas Edman
• Roger Hansson

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Men's 50 m Freestyle

• Lars Frölander

• Preliminary Heat — DNS (did not advance)

• Stefan Nystrand

• Preliminary Heat — 22.53
• Semi-final — 22.49 (did not advance)

Men's 100 m Freestyle

• Stefan Nystrand

• Preliminary Heat — 50.19 (did not advance)

• Lars Frölander

• Preliminary Heat — 49.16
• Semi-final — 48.93
• Final — 49.22 (6th place)

Men's 100 m Butterfly

• Lars Frölander

• Preliminary Heat — 53.14
• Semi-final — 52.84
• Final — 52 (Gold medal)

• Daniel Carlsson

• Preliminary Heat — 54.15 (did not advance)

Men's 100 m Breaststroke

• Patrik Isaksson

• Preliminary Heat — 01:03.05 (did not advance)

Men's 200 m Breaststroke

• Martin Gustavsson

• Preliminary Heat — 02:15.02
• Semi-final — 02:15.23 (did not advance)

Men's 100 m Backstroke

• Mattias Ohlin

• Preliminary Heat — 57.51 (did not advance)

Men's 4x100 m Freestyle

• Lars Frölander, Stefan Nystrand, Johan Nyström, Mattias Ohlin, Johan Wallberg

• Preliminary Heat — 03:19.80
• Final — 03:19.60 (6th place)

Men's 4x100 m Medley

• Mattias Ohlin, Martin Gustavsson, Daniel Carlsson, Stefan Nystrand

• Preliminary Heat — 03:40.88 (did not advance)

Women's 50 m Freestyle

• Therese Alshammar

• Preliminary Heat — 25.24
• Semi-final — 24.8
• Final — 24.51 (Silver medal)

• Anna-Karin Kammerling

• Preliminary Heat — 25.79
• Semi-final — 25.61 (did not advance)

Women's 100 m Freestyle

• Therese Alshammar

• Preliminary Heat — 55.49
• Semi-final — 55.31
• Final — 54.33 (Silver medal)

• Louise Jöhncke

• Preliminary Heat — 55.91
• Semi-final — 55.94 (did not advance)

Women's 100 m Butterfly

• Johanna Sjöberg

• Preliminary Heat — 59.59
• Semi-final — 59.15 (did not advance)

• Anna-Karin Kammerling

• Preliminary Heat — 59.88
• Semi-final — 01:00.40 (did not advance)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke

• Emma Igelström

• Preliminary Heat — 01:11.09 (did not advance)

Women's 100 m Backstroke

• Camilla Johansson

• Preliminary Heat — 01:04.99 (did not advance)

Women's 4x100 m Freestyle

• Therese Alshammar, Louise Jöhncke, Anna-Karin Kammerling, Josefin Lillhage, Johanna Sjöberg, and Malin Svahnström

• Preliminary Heat — 03:43.77
• Final — 03:40.30 (Bronze medal)

Women's 4x100 m Medley

• Emma Igelström, Louise Jöhncke, Camilla Johansson, and Johanna Sjöberg

• Preliminary Heat — 04:10.38 (did not advance)

Table tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Athlete	Event	Group Stage		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Peter Karlsson	Men's singles	BYE		Roßkopf (GER) L 2–3	Did not advance
Jörgen Persson		BYE		Franz (GER) W3–1	Matsushita (JPN) W 3–0	Gz Liu (CHN) W 3–1	Kong (CHN) L 1–3	Gl Liu (CHN) L 1–3	4
Jan-Ove Waldner		BYE		Iseki (JPN) W 3–1	Saive (BEL) W 3–1	Samsonov (BLR) W 3–2	Gl Liu (CHN) W 3–0	Kong (CHN) L 2–3
Fredrik Håkansson Peter Karlsson	Men's doubles	Samsonov / Chtchetinine (BLR) W 2–0	Sweeris / Zhuang (USA) W 4–1	N/A	Chila / Gatien (FRA) L 1–3	Did not advance
Jörgen Persson Jan-Ove Waldner		BYE		N/A	Eloi / Legout (FRA) L 0–3	Did not advance
Marie Svensson	Women's singles	Kostromina (BLR) W 3–2	Al-Najar (JOR) W 3–0	Chen (TPE) L 0–3	Did not advance
Åsa Svensson		Pavlovich (BLR) W 3–1	El-Alfy (EGY) W 3–0	Tian-Zorner (GER) W 3–2	Steff (ROU) L 2–3	Did not advance
Marie Svensson Åsa Svensson	Women's doubles	Abdul-Aziz / Osman (EGY) W 2–0	Kostromina / Pavlovich (BLR) L 1–2	N/A	Did not advance

Taekwondo

Main article: Taekwondo at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Men's Competition:

• Marcus Thorén
• Roman Livaja

Tennis

Main article: Tennis at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Thomas Johansson	Men's singles	Philippoussis (AUS) L 6–7(6–8), 4–6	Did not advance
Magnus Norman		Pavel (ROU) W 6–7(1–7), 6–3, 10–8	Srichaphan (THA) W 7–5, 6–2	Di Pasquale (FRA) L 6–7(4–7), 6–7(2–7)	Did not advance
Mikael Tillström		Paes (THA) W 6–2, 3–4	Lareau (CAN) W 6–1, 3–6, 6–3	Federer (SUI) L 1–6, 2–6	Did not advance
Andreas Vinciguerra		Ruud (NOR) W 6–2, 6–4	Haas (GER) L 6–4, 4–6, 2–6	Did not advance
Nicklas Kulti Mikael Tillström	Men's doubles	N/A	Mirnyi / Voltchkov (BLR) L 3–6, 4–4 (r)	Did not advance

Triathlon

Main article: Triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Men's Competition

• Joachim Willen — 1:51:40.80 (→ 35th place)

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Notes

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• International Olympic Committee (2001). The Results. Retrieved 12 November 2005.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 1: Preparing for the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 2: Celebrating the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). The Results. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
• International Olympic Committee Web Site