Swedish athletes at the Melbourne 1956 Olympics* |
 
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Athletes |
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 Athletics | |||||
| 1500 m M | | SWE | Dan Waern | ||
| Ingvar Ericsson | |||||
| 5000 m M | | SWE | Rune Aahlund | ||
| 10000 m M | | SWE | Rune Aahlund | ||
| Marathon M | | SWE | Arnold Vaide | ||
| Evert Nyberg | |||||
| Thomas Nilsson | |||||
| 3000 m steeplechase M | | SWE | Gunnar Tjörnebo | ||
| 20 km walk M | | SWE | Lars Hindmar | ||
| John Ljunggren | |||||
| 50 km walk M | | SWE | John Ljunggren | ||
| High jump M | | SWE | Stig Pettersson | ||
| Bengt Nilsson | |||||
| Pole vault M | | SWE | Ragnar Lundberg | ||
| Long jump M | | SWE | Torgny Wåhlander | ||
| Shot put M | | SWE | Erik Uddebom | ||
| Discus throw M | | SWE | Erik Uddebom | ||
| Hammer throw M | | SWE | Birger Asplund | ||
| High jump W | | SWE | Gunhild Larking | ||
| Javelin throw W | | SWE | Ingrid Almqvist | ||
 Boxing | |||||
| Middleweight M | | SWE | Stig Sjölin | ||
| Light-heavyweight M | | SWE | Lennart Risberg | ||
| Heavyweight M | | SWE | Thörner Åhsman | ||
_pictogram.svg){kind=small} Canoe & Kayak | |||||
| K1 1000 m M | | SWE | Gert Fredriksson | ||
| K2 1000 m M | | SWE | Carl-Åke Ljung | ||
| Ragnar Heurlin | |||||
| K1 10000 m M | | SWE | Gert Fredriksson | ||
| K2 10000 m M | | SWE | Hans Wetterström | ||
| Carl-Axel Sundin | |||||
| C1 1000 m M | | SWE | Verner Wettersten | ||
| C1 10000 m M | | SWE | Verner Wettersten | ||
_pictogram.svg){kind=small} Cycling | |||||
| Road race M | | SWE | Lars Nordwall | ||
| Road race team M | | SWE | Roland Ströhm | ||
| Lars Nordwall | |||||
| Karl-Ivan Andersson | |||||
 Diving | |||||
| Springboard W | | SWE | Birte Hanson | ||
| Anna-Stina Wahlberg | |||||
| Platform W | | SWE | Birte Hanson | ||
 Equestrian | |||||
| Dressage individual | | SWE | Gehnäll Persson | ||
| Gustaf-Adolf Boltenstern Jr. | |||||
| Henri Saint Cyr | |||||
| Dressage team | | SWE | Gustaf-Adolf Boltenstern Jr. | ||
| Gehnäll Persson | |||||
| Henri Saint Cyr | |||||
| Eventing individual | | SWE | Petrus Kastenman | ||
 Fencing | |||||
| Epee individual M | | SWE | Carl Forssell | ||
| Per Carleson | |||||
| Berndt-Otto Rehbinder | |||||
_pictogram.svg){kind=small} Gymnastics | |||||
| Individual all-round W | | SWE | Karin Lindberg | ||
| Ann-Sofi Colling-Pettersson | |||||
| Maude Karlen | |||||
| Doris Hedberg | |||||
| Evy Berggren | |||||
| Eva Rönström | |||||
| Team W | | SWE | Eva Rönström | ||
| Ann-Sofi Colling-Pettersson | |||||
| Maude Karlen | |||||
| Evy Berggren | |||||
| Karin Lindberg | |||||
| Doris Hedberg | |||||
| Floor W | | SWE | Doris Hedberg | ||
| Vault W | | SWE | Ann-Sofi Colling-Pettersson | ||
| Doris Hedberg | |||||
| Floor M | | SWE | William Thoresson | ||
| Team exercise W | | SWE | Evy Berggren | ||
| Karin Lindberg | |||||
| Doris Hedberg | |||||
| Eva Rönström | |||||
| Ann-Sofi Colling-Pettersson | |||||
| Maude Karlen | |||||
 Modern Pentathlon | |||||
| Individual M | | SWE | Bertil Haase | ||
| Björn Thofelt | |||||
| Lars Hall | |||||
| Team M | | SWE | Björn Thofelt | ||
| Bertil Haase | |||||
| Lars Hall | |||||
 Rowing | |||||
| Four with coxswain M | | SWE | Bertil Göransson | ||
| Ivar Aronsson | |||||
| Olof Larsson | |||||
| Sven Ever Gunnarsson | |||||
| Gösta Eriksson | |||||
 Sailing | |||||
| 5,5 m | | SWE | Hjalmar Karlsson | ||
| Lars Thörn | |||||
| Sture Stork | |||||
| Dragon | | SWE | Bengt Palmquist | ||
| Leif Wikström | |||||
| Folke Bohlin | |||||
| Finn M | | SWE | Richard Sarby | ||
 Shooting | |||||
| Rifle three positions M | | SWE | Nils Johan Sundberg | ||
| Anders Kvissberg | |||||
| Rifle prone M | | SWE | John Sundberg | ||
| Anders Kvissberg | |||||
| Free rifle M | | SWE | Nils Johan Sundberg | ||
| Anders Kvissberg | |||||
| Moving target M | | SWE | Per Olof Sköldberg | ||
| Benkt Austrin | |||||
| Free pistol M | | SWE | Åke Lindblom | ||
| Torsten Ullman | |||||
| Trap M | | SWE | Hans Liljedahl | ||
| Knut Holmqvist | |||||
 Swimming | |||||
| 100 m freestyle W | | SWE | Anita Hellström | ||
| Kate Jobson | |||||
| 400 m freestyle W | | SWE | Karin Larsson | ||
| Brigitta Wängberg | |||||
| Anita Hellström | |||||
| 400 m freestyle M | | SWE | Per-Olof Östrand | ||
| 4x100 m freestyle W | | SWE | Anita Hellström | ||
| Karin Larsson | |||||
| Brigitta Wängberg | |||||
| Kate Jobson | |||||
 Weightlifting | |||||
| Middleweight M | | SWE | Rune Franzen | ||
 Wrestling | |||||
| Freestyle welterweight M | | SWE | Per Berlin | ||
| Freestyle middleweight M | | SWE | Bengt Lindblad | ||
| Freestyle light-heavyweight M | | SWE | Wiking Palm | ||
| Greco-Roman flyweight M | | SWE | Bengt Johansson | ||
| Greco-Roman bantamweight M | | SWE | Edvin Vesterby | ||
| Greco-Roman featherweight M | | SWE | Gunnar Håkansson | ||
| Greco-Roman lightweight M | | SWE | Olle Anderberg | ||
| Greco-Roman welterweight M | | SWE | Per Berlin | ||
| Greco-Roman middleweight M | | SWE | Karl-Axel Jansson | ||
| Greco-Roman light-heavyweight M | | SWE | Karl-Erik Nilsson | ||
| Greco-Roman heavyweight M | | SWE | Bertil Antonsson | ||
| * The list of Swedish athletes in the 1956 Olympic Games is not yet complete | |||||
| This information about Swedish athletes in the Olympic Summer Games in Melbourne 1956 is based on the official olympic reports and Olympian Database | |||||
