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Sweden at the 2000 Summer Olympics
IOC code	SWE
NOC	Swedish Olympic Committee
Website	www.sok.se (in Swedish and English)
in Sydney
Competitors	150 (98 men and 52 women) in 22 sports
Flag bearers	Anna Olsson, flatwater canoeing
Medals Ranked 18th	Gold 4 Silver 5 Bronze 3 Total 12
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Other related appearances
1906 Intercalated Games

Sweden's entry at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia consisted of 150 competitors (98 men and 52 women) who 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 Mattias Andersson Martin Boquist Mathias Franzén Martin Frändesjö Peter Gentzel Andreas Larsson Ola Lindgren Stefan Lövgren Staffan Olsson Johan Petersson Tomas Sivertsson Tomas Svensson Pierre Thorsson Ljubomir Vranjes 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 4 × 100 m freestyle relay	16 September
Bronze	Kajsa Bergqvist	Athletics	Women's high jump	30 September
Bronze	Fredrik Lööf	Sailing	Men's Finn class

Archery

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	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	—		Australia W 241–238	United States L 244–255	Did not advance		6
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	—		United States L 230–242	Did not advance

Athletics

Men's track

Men's field

Women's field

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Anna Söderberg	Discus throw	56.11	24	Did not advance
Kajsa Bergqvist	High jump	1.94	=1 Q	1.99
Erica Johansson	Long jump	6.53	16	Did not advance
Camille Johansson	Triple jump	13.87	17	Did not advance

Wheelchair racing (demonstration)

Badminton

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	Mainaky (INA) L 11–15, 16–17	Did not advance
Rasmus Wengberg		Vaughan (GBR) L 8–15, 4–15	Did not advance
Peter Axelsson Pär-Gunnar Jönsson	Men's doubles	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	Chuen / Chee Louisa (HKG) W 15–13, 10–15, 15–12	Zhang / Gao (CHN) L 6–15, 7–15	Did not advance

Beach volleyball

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	Preliminary elimination	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Björn Berg Simon Dahl	Men's	de Melo – Santos (BRA) L 5-15	Bosma – Diez (ESP) L 11-15	Did not advance			=19

Canoeing

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Anders Svensson	K-1 500m	1:43.349	21 Q	1:43.070	18	Did not advance
Johan Eriksson	K-1 1000m	3:40.190	16 Q	3:43.359	17	Did not advance
Henrik Nilsson Markus Oscarsson	K-2 500m	1:30.051	1 Q	Bye		1:56.301	9
	K-2 1000m	3:15.102	5 Q	Bye		3:16.075
Jonas Fager Anders Gustafsson Erik Lindeberg Niklaes Persson	K-4 1000m	3:04.420	9 Q	3:02.611	2 Q	3:01.326	8

Women

Cycling

Road cycling

Diving

Equestrianism

Dressage

Eventing

Jumping

Fencing

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

Summary

Key:

• W – Win D – Draw L – Loss
• A.E.T – After extra time.
• P – Match decided by penalty-shootout.

Team	Event	Group Stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Sweden women's	Women's tournament	Brazil L 0–2	Australia D 1–1	Germany L 0–1	3	—	Did not qualify		6

Women's tournament

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

Group stage

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Germany	3	3	0	0	6	1	+5	9
Brazil	3	2	0	1	5	3	+2	6
Sweden	3	0	1	2	1	4	−3	1
Australia	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1

Sweden	0–2	Brazil
	Report	Pretinha 21' Kátia 70'

Australia	1–1	Sweden
Salisbury 57'	Report	Andersson 66' (pen.)

Germany	1–0	Sweden
Hingst 88'	Report

Handball

Summary

Key:

• ET: After extra time
• P – Match decided by penalty-shootout.

Team	Event	Group Stage						Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM / Pl.
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Sweden men's	Men's tournament	Australia W 44–23	Slovenia W 32–30	Tunisia W 27–18	France W 24–23	Spain W 28–27	1 Q	Egypt W 27–23	Spain W 32–25	Russia L 26–28

Judo

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Repechage 3	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Gabriel Bengtsson	Men's 66kg	Guimarães (BRA) L 0011–1000	Did not advance
Pernilla Andersson	Women's 57kg	Bye	Gal (NED) W	Pekli (AUS) L	—		Hüseynova (AZE) L	Did not advance

Modern pentathlon

Rowing

Men

Women

Sailing

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 Wallén

• 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

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Total	Rank
Jonas Edman	50m rifle prone	599	1 Q	701.3
	50m rifle three positions	1159	20	Did not advance
Roger Hansson	10m air rifle	587	27	Did not advance
	50m rifle prone	594	13	Did not advance
	50m rifle three positions	1162	12	Did not advance
Tomas Johansson	Skeet	115	43	Did not advance
Conny Persson	Trap	113	13	Did not advance
	Double trap	141	3 Q	184	4

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Total	Rank
Pia Hansen	Trap	64	8	Did not advance
	Double trap	112 OR	1 Q	148 OR
Monica Rundqvist	10m air pistol	381	11	Did not advance
	25m pistol	567	33	Did not advance

Swimming

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Lars Frölander	50m freestyle	DNS		Did not advance
Stefan Nystrand		22.53	10 Q	22.49	13	Did not advance
Lars Frölander	100m freestyle	49.16	3 Q	48.93	4 Q	49.22	6
Stefan Nystrand		50.19	19	Did not advance
Mattias Ohlin	100m backstroke	57.51	36	Did not advance
Patrik Isaksson	100m breaststroke	1:03.05	26	Did not advance
Martin Gustavsson	200m breaststroke	2:15.02	8 Q	2:15.23	15	Did not advance
Daniel Carlsson	100m butterfly	54.15	23	Did not advance
Lars Frölander		53.14	5 Q	52.84	4 Q	52.00 EU
Lars Frölander Stefan Nystrand Johan Nyström Mattias Ohlin Johan Wallberg	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:19.80	7 Q	—		3:19.60	6
Daniel Carlsson Martin Gustavsson Stefan Nystrand Mattias Ohlin	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:40.88	10	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Therese Alshammar	50m freestyle	25.24	4 Q	24.80	2 Q	24.51
Anna-Karin Kammerling		25.79	13 Q	25.61	9	Did not advance
Therese Alshammar	100m freestyle	55.49	6 Q	55.31	7 Q	54.33 NR
Louise Jöhncke		55.91	11 Q	55.94	13	Did not advance
Camilla Johansson	100m backstroke	1:04.99	31	Did not advance
Emma Igelström	100m breaststroke	1:11.09	22	Did not advance
Anna-Karin Kammerling	100m butterfly	59.88	15 Q	1:00.40	16	Did not advance
Johanna Sjoberg		59.59	11 Q	59.15	10	Did not advance
Therese Alshammar Louise Jöhncke Anna-Karin Kammerling Josefin Lillhage Malin Svahnström	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:43.77	6 Q	—		3:40.30
Emma Igelström Louise Jöhncke Camilla Johansson Johanna Sjoberg	4 × 100 m medley relay	4:10.38	10	Did not advance

Table tennis

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	—	Chila / Gatien (FRA) L 1–3	Did not advance
Jörgen Persson Jan-Ove Waldner		BYE		—	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-Zörner (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	—	Did not advance

Taekwondo

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Roman Livaja	-80kg	Geisler (PHI) W 4+-4	More (SLO) W 4-2	Matos (CUB) L 0-4	—	Hansen (AUS) W 1-0	Estrada (MEX) L 1-2	4
Marcus Thorén	+80kg	Trenton (AUS) L 3-6	—		Daley (GBR) L 2-9	Did not advance

Tennis

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, 4–6	Did not advance
Magnus Norman		Pavel (ROU) W 6–7, 6–3, 10–8	Srichaphan (THA) W 7–5, 6–2	Di Pasquale (FRA) L 6–7, 6–7	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	—	Mirnyi / Voltchkov (BLR) L 3–6, 4–4 (r)	Did not advance

Triathlon

Wrestling

Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Elimination Pool				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Mattias Schoberg	69kg	Son (KOR) L 0-4	Juretzko (GER) L 0-2	—	3	Did not advance
Ara Abrahamian	76kg	Avramis (GRE) W 3-2	Geghamyan (ARM) W 3-0	—	1 Q	Kardanov (RUS) L 1-3	—	5th place match  Kim (KOR) L 0-9	6
Martin Lidberg	85kg	Bárdosi (HUN) L 0-2	Bartolozzi (VEN) W 3-2	Olczak (AUS) W 4-0	2	Did not advance
Mikael Ljungberg	97kg	Sudureac (ROU) W 3-2	Mollov (BUL) W 10-0	—	1 Q	Matviyenko (KAZ) W 5-0	Lowney (USA) W 8-1	Saldadze (UKR) W 2-1
Eddy Bengtsson	130kg	Debelka (BLR) L 1-2	Giorgadze (GEO) W 4-0	—	2	Did not advance

See also

• Sweden at the 2000 Summer Paralympics

Notes

• Wallechinsky, David (2004). The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics (Athens 2004 Edition). Toronto, Canada. ISBN 1-894963-32-6.
• 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

References

1. "Sweden at the 2000 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2012.

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