Sweden competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. 177 competitors, 111 men and 66 women, took part in 109 events in 22 sports.
Medalists MedalNameSportEvent Ludmila Engquist Athletics Women's 100 m hurdles Susanne GunnarssonAgneta Andersson Canoeing Women's K-2 500 m Bobby LohseHans Wallén Sailing Star Magnus Petersson Archery Men's individual Lars FrölanderAnders HolmertzAnders LyrbringChrister Wallin Swimming Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay Handball Men's tournament Agneta AnderssonIngela EricssonAnna OlssonSusanne Rosenqvist Canoeing Women's K-4 500 m Mikael Ljungberg Wrestling Men's greco-Roman 100 kg
Archery
Swedish men returned to Olympic archery with a silver medal performance by Magnus Petersson. Veteran Göran Bjerendal was defeated in the first round.
Women's Individual Competition: Jenny Sjöwall → Round of 32, 26th place (1-1) Christa Backman → Round of 64, 35th place (0-1) Kristina Persson-Nordlander → Round of 64, 43rd place (0-1)
Men's Individual Competition: Magnus Petersson → Final, Silver Medal (5-1) Mikael Larsson → Round of 32, 21st place (1-1) Göran Bjerendal → Round of 64, 34th place (0-1)
Women's Team Competition: Sjöwall, Backman, and Persson → Quarterfinal, 7th place (1-1)
Men's Team Competition: Petersson, Larsson, and Bjerendal → Quarterfinal, 6th place (1-1)
Athletics
Men's 400m Hurdles Sven Nylander Heat — 49.54s Semi Final — 48.21s Final — 47.98s (→ 4th place)
Men's Marathon Anders Szalkai — 2:24.27 (→ 64th place)
Men's Javelin Throw Dag Wennlund Qualification — 75.24m (→ did not advance)
Men's Hammer Throw Tore Gustafsson Qualification — 71.02m (→ did not advance)
Women's High Jump Kajsa Bergqvist Qualification — 1.90m (→ did not advance)
Badminton
Jan-Eric Antonsson, Peter Axelsson, Catrine Bengtsson, Maria Bengtsson, Margit Borg, Astrid Crabo, Tomas Johansson, Pär-Gunnar Jönsson, Christine Magnusson, Jens Olsson
Beach Volleyball
Tom Englen and Fredrik Petersson — 17th place overall
Boxing
Men's Light Flyweight (48 kg) Stefan Ström First Round — Lost to Yosvani Aguilera (Cuba), referee stopped contest in second round
Men's Bantamweight (54 kg) John Larbi First Round — Lost to Arnaldo Mesa (Cuba), 5-19
Men's Light Middleweight (71 kg) Roger Pettersson First Round — Defeated Shokhrat Kourbanov (Turkmenistan), 7-2 Second Round — Lost to Antonio Perugino (Italy), 4-18
Men's Light Heavyweight (81 kg) Ismael Koné First Round — Defeated Ilkham Kerimov (Azerbaijan), 22-3 Second Round — Lost to Thomas Ulrich (Germany), 9-24
Men's Heavyweight (91 kg) Kwamena Turkson First Round — Defeated Young-Sam Ko (South Korea), 12-8 Second Round — Lost to Félix Savón (Cuba), knock-out in first round
Men's Super Heavyweight (> 91 kg) Attila Levin First Round — Bye Second Round — Defeated Jean-François Bergeron (Canada), referee stopped contest in first round Quarterfinals — Lost to Wladimir Klitschko (Ukraine), referee stopped contest in first round
Canoeing
Cycling
Road Competition Men's Individual Time Trial Jan Karlsson Final — 1:08:52 (→ 18th place)
Michael Andersson Final — did not finish (→ no ranking)
Women's Individual Road Race Susanne Ljungskog Final — 02:37:06 (→ 25th place)
Mountain Bike Men's Cross Country Roger Persson Final — 2:37:17 (→ 21st place)
Diving
Men's 3m Springboard Jimmy Sjödin Preliminary Heat — 339.93 (→ did not advance, 20th place)
Joakim Andersson Preliminary Heat — 331.83 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)
Women's 3m Springboard Anna Lindberg Preliminary Heat — 292.02 Semi Final — 220.29 Final — 269.52 (→ 8th place)
Equestrianism
Fencing
Two fencers, one man and one woman, represented Sweden in 1996.
Men's épée Péter Vánky
Women's épée Helena Elinder
Football
Summary
TeamEventGroup StageQuarterfinalSemifinalFinal / OppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankSweden women'sWomen's tournamentL 0–2L 1–2W 3–13Did not qualify6
Women's tournament
Annelie Nilsson Cecilia Sandell Åsa Jakobsson Annika Nessvold Kristin Bengtsson Anna Pohjanen Pia Sundhage Malin Swedberg Malin Andersson Ulrika Kalte Lena Videkull Ulrika Karlsson Camilla Svensson Maria Kun Julia Carlsson Hanna Ljungberg
Handball
Summary
TeamEventGroup StageSemifinalFinal / / OppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankSweden men'sMen's tournamentW 23–19W 26–19W 22–20W 33–18W 27–181 QW 25–20L 26–27
Judo
Modern pentathlon
Men's Individual Competition: Per-Olov Danielson — 5375 pts (→ 10th place)
Rowing
Sailing
Shooting
Swimming
Men's 50 m Freestyle Pär Lindström Heat — 23.47 (→ did not advance, 33rd place)
Men's 100 m Freestyle Lars Frölander Heat — 49.91 Final — scratched
Men's 200 m Freestyle Anders Holmertz Heat — 1:48.41 Final — 1:48.42 (→ 5th place)
Men's 400 m Freestyle Anders Holmertz Heat — 3:52.27 Final — 3:50.66 (→ 5th place)
Men's 100 m Butterfly Lars Frölander Heat — 54.37 (→ did not advance, 19th place)
Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay Fredrik Letzler, Lars Frölander, Christer Wallin, and Johan Wallberg Heat — 3:20.74 Lars Frölander, Fredrik Letzler, Anders Holmertz, and Christer Wallin Final — 3:20.16 (→ 7th place)
Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay Christer Wallin, Lars Frölander, Anders Lyrbring, and Anders Holmertz Heat — 7:20.61 Christer Wallin, Anders Holmertz, Lars Frölander, and Anders Lyrbring Final — 7:17.56 (→ Silver Medal)
Women's 50 m Freestyle Linda Olofsson Heat — 25.84 Final — 25.63 (→ 6th place)
Women's 100 m Freestyle Linda Olofsson Heat — 56.56 B-Final — 55.83 (→ 10th place)
Women's 200 m Freestyle Louise Jöhncke Heat — 2:01.13 B-Final — 2:01.37 (→ 11th place)
Malin Nilsson Heat — 2:04.39 (→ did not advance, 24th place)
Women's 100 m Backstroke Therese Alshammar Heat — 1:03.79 B-Final — 1:04.15 (→ 16th place)
Women's 100 m Breaststroke Hanna Jaltner Heat — 1:10.69 B-Final — 1:11.41 (→ 16th place)
Maria Östling Heat — 1:11.58 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)
Women's 200 m Breaststroke Lena Eriksson Heat — 2:31.65 B-Final — 2:28.87 (→ 9th place)
Maria Östling Heat — 2:33.44 (→ did not advance, 21st place)
Women's 100 m Butterfly Johanna Sjöberg Heat — 1:01.01 B-Final — 1:00.76 (→ 9th place)
Women's 200 m Individual Medley Louise Karlsson Heat — 2:16.37 Final — 2:17.25 (→ 8th place)
Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay Louise Jöhncke, Johanna Sjöberg, Louise Karlsson, and Linda Olofsson Heat — 3:45.39 Linda Olofsson, Louise Jöhncke, Louise Karlsson, and Johanna Sjöberg Final — 3:44.91 (→ 5th place)
Women's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay Louise Jöhncke, Johanna Sjöberg, Josefin Lillhage, and Åsa Sandlund Heat — 8:13.64 (→ did not advance, 9th place)
Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay Therese Alshammar, Hanna Jaltner, Johanna Sjöberg, and Louise Jöhncke Heat — 4:10.88 (→ did not advance, 10th place)
Table tennis
Tennis
Men's Singles Competition Thomas Enqvist First round — Defeated Marc-Kevin Goellner (Germany) 7-6 4-6 6-4 Second round — Defeated Sargis Sargsian (Armenia) 4-6 7-6 6-4 Third round — Lost to Leander Paes (India) 5-7 6-7
Magnus Gustafsson First round — Defeated Ronald Agénor (Haiti) 6-2 6-4 Second round — Lost to Greg Rusedski (Great Britain) 7-6 6-7 3-6
Weightlifting
Wrestling
Notes
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