Sweden at the 2016 Summer Olympics

The following Swedish competitors won medals at the games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Gold Sarah Sjöström Swimming Women's 100 m butterfly 7 August  Gold Jenny Rissveds Cycling Women's cross-country race 20 August  Silver Emma Johansson Cycling Women's road race 7 August  Silver Sarah Sjöström Swimming Women's 200 m freestyle 9 August  Silver Marcus Svensson Shooting Men's skeet 13 August  Silver Henrik Stenson Golf Men's individual 14 August  Silver Peder Fredricson Equestrian Individual jumping 19 August  Silver Sweden women's national football team Jonna Andersson Emilia Appelqvist Kosovare Asllani Emma Berglund Stina Blackstenius Hilda Carlén Lisa Dahlkvist Magdalena Ericsson Nilla Fischer Pauline Hammarlund Sofia Jakobsson Hedvig Lindahl Fridolina Rolfö Elin Rubensson Jessica Samuelsson Lotta Schelin Caroline Seger Linda Sembrant Olivia Schough Football Women's tournament 19 August  Bronze Sarah Sjöström Swimming Women's 100 m freestyle 11 August  Bronze Jenny Fransson Wrestling Women's 69 kg 17 August  Bronze Sofia Mattsson Wrestling Women's 53 kg 18 August

Medals by sport Sport Total Swimming 1 1 1 3 Cycling 1 1 0 2 Equestrian 0 1 0 1 Football 0 1 0 1 Golf 0 1 0 1 Shooting 0 1 0 1 Wrestling 0 0 2 2 Total 2 6 3 11 Medals by day Day Total 6 August 0 0 0 0 7 August 1 1 0 2 8 August 0 0 0 0 9 August 0 1 0 1 10 August 0 0 0 0 11 August 0 0 1 1 12 August 0 0 0 0 13 August 0 1 0 1 14 August 0 1 0 1 15 August 0 0 0 0 16 August 0 0 0 0 17 August 0 0 1 1 18 August 0 0 1 1 19 August 0 2 0 2 20 August 1 0 0 1 21 August 0 0 0 0 Total 2 6 3 11 Medals by gender Gender Total Male 0 3 0 3 Female 2 3 3 8 Total 2 6 3 11 Multiple medalists Name Sport Total Sarah Sjöström Swimming 1 1 1 3

One Swedish archer has qualified for the women's individual recurve at the Olympics by virtue of a top six national finish at the 2016 Archery World Cup meet in Antalya, Turkey.^[3]

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Christine Bjerendal	Women's individual	611	47	Rendón (COL) W 6–2	Kang U-j (PRK) L 2–6	Did not advance

Sixteen Swedish athletes have been selected to compete in the games.^[4][5] The SOK selected its athletes with a specific qualifying standard based on the results at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2013 IAAF World Championships and the 2015 IAAF World Championships to ensure that the athlete can reach a top eight position.^[6] However, Melker Svärd Jacobsson who was scheduled to compete in men's pole vault had to withdraw before the games due to injury.^[7]

Track & road events

Field events

Men

Women

Sweden has qualified one badminton player for the men's singles into the Olympic tournament. London 2012 Olympian Henri Hurskainen had claimed his Olympic spot as one of top 34 individual shuttlers in the BWF World Rankings as of 5 May 2016.^[8]

Athlete	Event	Group Stage			Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Henri Hurskainen	Men's singles	Muñoz (MEX) W (21–12, 21–11)	Kidambi (IND) L (6–21, 18–21)	2	Did not advance

Sweden has qualified one boxer to compete in the women's middleweight division into the Olympic boxing tournament. 2012 Olympian Anna Laurell Nash had claimed her Olympic spot with a semifinal victory at the 2016 European Qualification Tournament in Samsun, Turkey.^[9]

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Anna Laurell Nash	Women's middleweight	Marshall (GBR) L 0–3	Did not advance

Sweden has received a spare Olympic berth freed up by the Netherlands to send a canoeist competing in the men's K-1 class, as the next highest-ranked eligible individual, not yet qualified, at the 2016 European Canoe Slalom Championships in Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia, signifying the nation's debut in slalom canoeing.^[10][11]

Sweden has qualified a single boat in men's K-1 200 m for the Games through the 2015 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships.^[12] Meanwhile, two additional boats (women's K-1 200 m and women's K-2 500 m) were awarded to the Swedish squad by virtue of a top two national finish at the 2016 European Qualification Regatta in Duisburg, Germany.^[13]

On 25 July 2016, one additional boat was awarded to the Swedish squad in the men's K-2 200 m and one in women's K-1 500 m,^[14] as a response to the removal of five boats held by the Russians from the International Canoe Federation due to their previous doping bans and their implications in the "disappearing positive methodology" set out in the McClaren Report on Russia's state-sponsored doping.^[15] SOK decided to decline the spot in the men's K-2 200 m, but selected Karin Johansson for women's K-1 500 m.^[16]

Qualification Legend: FA = Qualify to final (medal); FB = Qualify to final B (non-medal)

Swedish riders qualified for the following three quota places in women's Olympic road race by virtue of their top 13 national finish in the 2016 UCI World Ranking (for women).^[17]

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Emilia Fahlin	Women's road race	3:58:03	27
Emma Johansson		3:51:27
Sara Mustonen		Did not finish

Swedish mountain bikers qualified for one men's and women's quota place each into the Olympic cross-country race, as a result of the nation's nineteenth-place finish for men and sixteenth for women, respectively, in the UCI Olympic Ranking List of 25 May 2016. With Olympic selection criteria requiring riders to show top eight potential, the SOK had decided to nominate one mountain biker to the Olympic roster instead, which was awarded to Jenny Rissveds in women's cross-country.^[18]

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Jenny Rissveds	Women's cross-country	1:30:16

Swedish equestrians have qualified a full squad in all three disciplines through the 2014 FEI World Equestrian Games, the 2015 European Dressage Championships and the 2015 European Eventing Championships.^[19][20] Mads Hendeliowitz (dressage), Linda Algotsson (eventing) and Charlotte Mordasini (jumping) were named as reserves. Reserve Linda Algotsson and her horse Fairnet stepped in to compete when Anna Nilsson's horse Luron got an airway infection.^[21]

Swedish dressage team was named on 1 July 2016.^[22] Therese Nilshagen was originally selected for the team but her horse Dante Weltino was ill so she was replaced by Mads Hendeliowitz.

"#" indicates that the score of this rider does not count in the team competition, since only the best three results of a team are counted.

"#" indicates that the score of this rider does not count in the team competition, since only the best three results of a team are counted.

Athlete	Horse	Event	Qualification								Final					Total
			Round 1		Round 2			Round 3			Round A		Round B
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Malin Baryard-Johnsson	Cue Channa	Individual	8	53 Q	4	12	46 TO	17 #	TO		Did not advance
Rolf-Göran Bengtsson	Unita		16 #	64 TO	4 #	TO		1	TO		Did not advance
Peder Fredricson	All In		0	1 Q	0	0	1 Q	1	1	2 Q	0	1 Q	0	0		0
Henrik von Eckermann	Yajamila		0	1 Q	4	4	15 Q	8	12	31 Q	4	16 Q	12	16	24	16	24
Malin Baryard-Johnsson Rolf-Göran Bengtsson Peder Fredricson Henrik von Eckermann	See above	Team	8	=8	8	—N/a	7 Q	10	18	=7	—N/a					18	=7

"TO" indicates that the rider only qualified for the team competition. "#" indicates that the score of this rider does not count in the team competition, since only the best three results of a team are counted.

Sweden has entered four golfers (two per gender) into the Olympic tournament. David Lingmerth (world no. 48), Henrik Stenson (world no. 6), Pernilla Lindberg (world no. 90) and Anna Nordqvist (world no. 11) qualified directly among the top 60 eligible players for their respective individual events based on the IGF World Rankings as of 11 July 2016.^[39][40][41]

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Total
		Score	Score	Score	Score	Score	Par	Rank
David Lingmerth	Men's	69	70	68	71	278	−6	=11
Henrik Stenson		66	68	68	68	270	−14
Pernilla Lindberg	Women's	74	73	69	70	286	+2	=31
Anna Nordqvist		71	70	68	69	278	−6	=11

Sweden has entered one artistic gymnast into the Olympic competition. Emma Larsson had claimed her Olympic spot in the women's apparatus and all-around events at the Olympic Test Event in Rio de Janeiro.^[42]

Women

Larsson was ranked 65th in the uneven bars event, 27th in the balance beam event and 42nd in the floor event.

Sweden has qualified four judokas for each of the following weight classes at the Games. Brothers Robin and Martin Pacek, along with London 2012 Olympian Marcus Nyman, were ranked among the top 22 eligible judokas for men in the IJF World Rankings of 30 May 2016, while Mia Hermansson at women's half-middleweight (63 kg) earned a continental quota spot from the European region, as the highest-ranked Swedish judoka outside of direct qualifying position.^[50][51]

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Robin Pacek	Men's −81 kg	Bye	Stevens (USA) L 000–001	Did not advance
Marcus Nyman	Men's −90 kg	Bye	Juraev (UZB) W 101–001	Yovo (BEN) W 100–000	Cheng Xz (CHN) L 000–100	Did not advance	Iddir (FRA) W 100–000	Gwak D-h (KOR) L 000–100	5
Martin Pacek	Men's −100 kg	Bye	Cho G-h (KOR) L 000–000 S	Did not advance
Mia Hermansson	Women's −63 kg	—N/a	Gwend (ITA) L 000–101	Did not advance

Sweden has qualified one boat in the women's single sculls for the Olympics at the 2015 FISA World Championships in Lac d'Aiguebelette, France.

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Swedish sailors have qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships, the individual fleet Worlds, and European qualifying regattas.^[52][53][54] In December 2015, the Swedish Olympic Committee (SOK) had announced the names of six crews to be selected to the Rio regatta, including 2012 Olympic champion Max Salminen, while Laser sailor Jesper Stålheim joined the fleet four months later in another Olympic selection.^[50][55]

Men

Women

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race

Swedish shooters have achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2014 and 2015 ISSF World Championships, the 2015 ISSF World Cup series, and European Championships or Games, as long as they obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by 31 March 2016.^[56]

On 14 November 2015, skeet shooters Stefan Nilsson and Marcus Svensson were among the initial batch of Swedish athletes to assure their selection to the Olympic team. Initially, Sweden secured a quota place in the women's 10 m air rifle, but the Swedish Olympic Committee chose to exchange it with the men's double trap instead based on performances throughout the qualifying period. The slot was awarded to London 2012 silver medalist Håkan Dahlby.^[57]

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Semifinal		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Håkan Dahlby	Men's double trap	121	18	Did not advance
Stefan Nilsson	Men's skeet	121	=3 Q	14 (+3)	=5	Did not advance
Marcus Svensson		123 OR	=1 Q	16	=1 Q	15

Qualification Legend: Q = Qualify for the next round; q = Qualify for the bronze medal (shotgun)

Swedish swimmers have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)):^[58][59]

A total of eleven Swedish swimmers (two men and nine women) were selected to the Olympic team with Therese Alshammar becoming the first female ever to compete in her sixth straight Games.^[60] The swimming roster also featured current world record holder Sarah Sjöström in the women's 100 m butterfly.^[50]

Men

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Therese Alshammar	50 m freestyle	24.73	12 Q	24.72	15	Did not advance
Michelle Coleman	100 m freestyle	DNS		Did not advance
	200 m freestyle	1:56.54	7 Q	1:56.05	5 Q	1:56.27	7
Stina Gardell	200 m individual medley	2:14.41	20	Did not advance
Louise Hansson	100 m butterfly	59.73	31	Did not advance
	200 m individual medley	2:15.66	29	Did not advance
Sophie Hansson	100 m breaststroke	1:08.67	26	Did not advance
	200 m breaststroke	2:30.59	26	Did not advance
Jennie Johansson	100 m breaststroke	1:06.84	10 Q	1:07.06	9	Did not advance
Sarah Sjöström	50 m freestyle	24.66	10 Q	24.69	13	Did not advance
	100 m freestyle	53.37	3 Q	53.16	4 Q	52.99
	200 m freestyle	1:56.11	3 Q	1:54.65	1 Q	1:54.08 NR
	100 m butterfly	56.26	1 Q	55.84 OR	1 Q	55.48 WR
Michelle Coleman Louise Hansson Ida Lindborg* Ida Marko Varga Sarah Sjöström	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:36.42	6 Q	—N/a		3:35.90	5
Michelle Coleman Louise Hansson Ida Marko Varga Sarah Sjöström	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	7:53.43	8 Q	—N/a		7:50.26	5
Michelle Coleman Louise Hansson Jennie Johansson Sarah Sjöström	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:59.45	9	—N/a		Did not advance

Sweden has entered three athletes into the table tennis competition at the Games. Pär Gerell and Li Fen secured one of the ten available Olympic berths each in the men's and women's singles, respectively, while Matilda Ekholm rounded out the Olympic lineup by winning the repechage play-off match at the European Qualification Tournament in Halmstad.^[61] Kristian Karlsson was automatically selected among the top 22 eligible players to join Gerell in the men's singles based on the ITTF Olympic Rankings.^[62]

Mattias Karlsson was awarded the third spot to build the men's team for the Games by virtue of a top 10 national finish outside the continental zones in the ITTF Olympic Rankings.^[63] Anton Källberg has been selected as reserve in the men's team event.

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Pär Gerell	Men's singles	Bye		Calderano (BRA) L 1–4	Did not advance
Kristian Karlsson		Bye		Wang Jn (CGO) W 4–1	Samsonov (BLR) L 2–4	Did not advance
Pär Gerell Kristian Karlsson Mattias Karlsson	Men's team	—N/a				United States W 3–0	South Korea L 1–3	Did not advance
Matilda Ekholm	Women's singles	Bye		Wu (USA) W 4–2	Jeon J-h (KOR) L 1–4	Did not advance
Li Fen		Bye		Balážová (SVK) W 4–3	Li Xx (CHN) L 0–4	Did not advance

Sweden entered two athletes into the taekwondo competition at the Olympics. Nikita Glasnović and 2012 Olympian Elin Johansson qualified automatically for in their respective classes by finishing in the top 6 WTF Olympic rankings.^[64]

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Nikita Glasnović	Women's −57 kg	Marton (AUS) W 4−0	Mikkonen (FIN) W 7−4	Jones (GBR) L 4−9	Bye	Alizadeh (IRI) L 1–5	5
Elin Johansson	Women's −67 kg	Tursunkulova (UZB) L 2–2 SUP	Did not advance

Sweden has entered one tennis player into the Olympic tournament. Johanna Larsson (world no. 55) qualified directly for the women's singles as one of the top 56 eligible players in the WTA World Rankings as of 6 June 2016.^[65][66]

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Johanna Larsson	Women's singles	Cornet (FRA) L 1–6, 6–2, 3–6	Did not advance

Sweden has entered one triathlete to compete at the Games. London 2012 silver medalist Lisa Nordén was ranked among the top 40 eligible triathletes in the women's event based on the ITU Olympic Qualification List as of 15 May 2016.^[67]

Sweden received an unused quota place from IWF to send a female weightlifter to the Olympics, as a response to the vacancy of women's quota places in the individual World Rankings and to the "multiple positive cases" of doping on several nations.^[68] This marked Sweden's historic debut in women's weightlifting at the Games.

Sweden has qualified a total of seven wrestlers for each of the following weight classes into the Olympic competition. Three of them finished among the top six to book Olympic spots each in all women's freestyle events (except 48, 63, & 75 kg) at the 2015 World Championships.^[69] Meanwhile, four further wrestlers had claimed the remaining Olympic slots to round out the Swedish roster in separate World Qualification Tournaments; two of them at the initial meet in Ulaanbaatar and two more at the final meet in Istanbul.^[70]

Men's Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Zakarias Berg	−85 kg	Akhlaghi (IRI) L 0−4 ST	Did not advance						21
Fredrik Schön	−98 kg	Dzeinichenka (BLR) W 3−1 PP	Kiss (HUN) W 3−1 PP	Guri (BUL) W 4−0 ST	Lugo (CUB) L 0−3 PO	Bye		Rezaei (IRI) L 1−3 PP	5
Johan Eurén	−130 kg	Bye	Popov (AUS) W 5−0 VT	López (CUB) L 0−3 PO	Did not advance	Bye	Nabi (EST) L 0−3 PO	Did not advance	8

Women's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Sofia Mattsson	−53 kg	Bye	Adekuoroye (NGR) W 5−0 VT	Krawczyk (POL) W 3−1 PP	Maroulis (USA) L 0−5 VT	Bye		Zhong Xc (CHN) W 5−0 VT
Johanna Mattsson	−58 kg	Malik (IND) L 1−3 PP	Did not advance						14
Henna Johansson	−63 kg	Bye	Hanzlíčková (CZE) W 4−0 ST	Mamashuk (BLR) L 1−3 PP	Did not advance	Bye	Larionova (KAZ) L 0−5 VT	Did not advance	10
Jenny Fransson	−69 kg	Bye	Store (NOR) W 3−0 PO	Focken (GER) W 3−1 PP	Dosho (JPN) L 1−3 PP	Bye		Yeats (CAN) W 3−1 PP