Sweden competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. 131 competitors, 104 men and 27 women, took part in 90 events in 18 sports.
Medalists
Gold Ulrika Knape — Diving, Women's 10m Platform Ragnar Skanåker — Shooting, Men's Free Pistol Gunnar Larsson — Swimming, Men's 200m Individual Medley Gunnar Larsson — Swimming, Men's 400m Individual Medley
Silver Gunnar Jervill — Archery, Men's Individual Competition Ulrika Knape — Diving, Women's 3m Springboard Rolf Peterson — Canoeing, Men's K1 1000m Jan Karlsson — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Welterweight Pelle Pettersson and Stellan Westerdahl — Sailing, Men's Star Class Bo Knape, Stefan Krook, Lennart Roslund and Stig Wennerström — Sailing, Men's Soling Class
Bronze Rickard Bruch — Athletics, Men's Discus Throw Hasse Thomsén — Boxing, Men's Heavyweight Jan Jönsson — Equestrian, Three-Day Event Individual competition Ulla Håkanson, Ninna Swaab and Maud von Rosen — Equestrian, Dressage Team Competition Hans Bettembourg — Weightlifting, Men's Middle Heavyweight Jan Karlsson — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Welterweight
Archery
In the first modern archery competition at the Olympics, Sweden entered three men and two women. Gunnar Jervill won a silver medal in the men's competition.
Men's Individual Competition: Gunnar Jervill – 2481 points (→ Silver Medal) Rolf Svensson – 2386 points (→ 16th place) Olov Bostroem – 2347 points (→ 27th place)
Women's Individual Competition: Maj-Britt Johansson – 2283 points (→ 19th place) Anna-Lisa Berglund – 2185 points (→ 34th place)
Athletics
Men's 1500 metres Gunnar Ekman Heat — 3:40.4 Semifinals — 3:39.4 (→ did not advance)
Ulf Hogberg Heat — 3:41.5 Semifinals — 3:43.6 (→ did not advance)
Men's 5000 metres Anders Gärderud Heat — 13:57.2 (→ did not advance)
Men's High Jump Jan Dahlgren Qualifying Round — 2.15m Final — 2.15m (→ 11th place)
Boxing
Men's Heavyweight (+ 81 kg) Hasse Thomsén → Bronze Medal First Round — Defeated Jean Bassomben (CMR), 4:1 Quarterfinals — Defeated Carroll Morgan (CAN), KO-3 Semifinals — Lost to Ion Alexe (ROM), TKO-2
Canoeing
Cycling
Five cyclists represented Sweden in 1972.
Individual road race Lennart Fagerlund — 42nd place Sven-Åke Nilsson — 44th place Leif Hansson — did not finish (→ no ranking) Bernt Johansson — did not finish (→ no ranking)
Team time trial Lennart Fagerlund Tord Filipsson Leif Hansson Sven-Åke Nilsson
Diving
Women's 3m Springboard Ulrika Knape — 434.19 points (→ Silver Medal) Agneta Henriksson — 417.48 points (→ 6th place)
Women's 10m Platform Ulrika Knape — 390.00 points (→ Gold Medal)
Equestrian
Fencing
Six fencers, five men and one woman, represented Sweden in 1972.
Men's foil Per Sundberg
Men's épée Rolf Edling Orvar Jönsson Carl von Essen
Men's team épée Hans Wieselgren, Carl von Essen, Orvar Jönsson, Rolf Edling, Per Sundberg
Women's foil Kerstin Palm
Gymnastics
Handball
Summary
TeamEventPreliminary RoundSecond RoundFinal / / OppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankOppositionScoreRankSweden men'sMen's tournamentD 13–13D 11–11W 16–101 QL 12–15L 11–144W 19–187
Men's Team Competition In a very tight division for the first round, Sweden came out in first place after a tie-breaker with the Soviet Union. Both teams had tied twice (Sweden had tied Poland and the Soviet Union) and won once. Sweden's victory was over Denmark. Both teams advanced to the second round with a 0-0-1 record to start, already behind East Germany which had defeated Czechoslovakia to enter with a 1-0-0 record. Sweden lost its games to those two opponents while the Soviet Union split its pair, dropping the Swedes to fourth place in the division. They played against Hungary for seventh and eighth places, winning 19-18.
Preliminary Round (Group A) Sweden – Poland 13-13 (5-7) Sweden – Soviet Union 11-11 (4-3) Sweden – Denmark 16-10 (8-4) Second Round (Group A) Sweden – Czechoslovakia 12-15 (6-7) Sweden – East Germany 11-14 (6-8) Classification Match Sweden – Hungary 19-18 (11-8) → 7th place
Team Roster Björn Andersson Bo Andersson Dan Eriksson Lennart Eriksson Johan Fischerström Göran Hård af Segerstad Bengt Johansson Benny Johansson Jan Jönsson Lars Karlsson Michael Koch Olle Olsson Sten Olsson Thomas Persson Bertil Söderberg Frank Ström
Judo
Modern pentathlon
Three male pentathletes represented Sweden in 1972.
Men's Individual Competition: Björn Ferm – 5283 points (→ 6th place) Bo Jansson – 4739 points (→ 24th place) Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall – 4704 points (→ 25th place)
Men's Team Competition: Ferm, Jansson, and Liljenwall – 14708 points (→ 5th place)
Rowing
Men's Single Sculls Lennart Baiter Heat — 8:12.92 Repechage — 8:11.07 (→ did not advance)
Sailing
Shooting
Ten male shooters represented Sweden in 1972. Ragnar Skanåker won gold in the 50 m pistol event.
25 m pistol Curt Andersson
50 m pistol Ragnar Skanåker Kjell Jacobsson
300 m rifle, three positions Sven Johansson
50 m rifle, three positions Christer Jansson Sven Johansson
50 m rifle, prone Christer Jansson Sven Johansson
50 m running target Göte Gåård Karl-Axel Karlsson
Trap Johnny Påhlsson
Skeet Lars-Erik Söderberg Gert-Åke Bengtsson
Swimming
Men's 100m Freestyle Anders Bellbring Heat — DNS (→ did not advance)
Men's 200m Freestyle Bernt Zarnowiecki Heat — 2:01.34 (→ did not advance)
Rolf Pettersson Heat — 2:00.02 (→ did not advance)
Hans Ljungberg Heat — 1:59.42 (→ did not advance)
Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay Hans Ljungberg, Bengt Gingsjö, Anders Bellbring, and Gunnar Larsson Heat — 7:57.54 Bengt Gingsjö, Hans Ljungberg, Anders Bellbring, and Gunnar Larsson Final — 7:47.37 (→ 4th place)
Weightlifting
Wrestling
References