Sweden at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Sweden at the; 2008 Summer Paralympics
IPC code	SWE
NPC	Swedish Parasports Federation
in Beijing
Flag bearer	Anders Olsson[1]
Medals; Ranked 24th	Gold 5 Silver 3 Bronze 4 Total 12
Summer Paralympics appearances
	1960; 1964; 1968; 1972; 1976; 1980; 1984; 1988; 1992; 1996; 2000; 2004; 2008; 2012; 2016; 2020;

Sweden sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Jonas Jacobsson	Shooting	Men's R1-10m Air Rifle Standing – SH1
Gold	Jonas Jacobsson	Shooting	Men's R7-50m Free Rifle 3x40-SH1
Gold	Jonas Jacobsson	Shooting	Mixed R6-50m Free Rifle Prone-SH1
Gold	Anders Olsson	Swimming	Men's 100m freestyle – S6
Gold	Anders Olsson	Swimming	Men's 400m Freestyle – S6
Silver	Josefin Abrahamsson	Table Tennis	Women's Individual – Class 8
Silver	Johan Andersson	Wheelchair Tennis	Quad Singles
Silver	Stefan Olsson Peter Wikström	Wheelchair Tennis	Quad Doubles
Bronze	Viktoria Wedin	Shooting	Mixed R5-10m Air Rifle Prone – SH2
Bronze	Fredrik Andersson	Table Tennis	Men's Individual – Class 9/10
Bronze	Jimmy Björkstrand Stefan Gahne Niklas Hultkvist Oskar Kuus Fatmir Seremeti Mikael Åkerberg	Goalball	Men's Tournament
Bronze	Anders Olsson	Swimming	Men's 50m freestyle – S6

Archery

Women

Athlete	Event	Ranking Round		Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Ann-Christin Nilsson	Individual Compound Open	641	6	Gulbin Su (TUR) L 102–112	Did not advance
Zandra Reppe	Individual Compound Open	658	2	Chieko Kamiya (JPN) L 106–107	Did not advance

Men

Athlete	Event	Ranking Round		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Anders Grönberg	Individual Compound Open	657	18	Alberto Simonelli (ITA) L 107–112	Did not advance
Håkan Törnström	Individual Compound Open	675	10	BYE	Jiri Klich (CZE) L 103–106	Did not advance

Athletics

Women's team

Event	Athletes	Classification	Qualifiers/Heat		Final
Event	Athletes	Classification	Result	Position	Result	Position
100 m	Nathalie Nilsson	T13	14.01	4	Did not advance
100 m	Madelene Nordlund	T53	18.66	3 Q	18.40	7
200 m	Madelene Nordlund	T53	32.66	5 q	32.31	8
200 m	Gunilla Wallengren	T54	31.23	3	Did not advance
400 m	Madelene Nordlund	T53	Did not start		Did not advance
400 m	Gunilla Wallengren	T54	57.48	5 q	58.20	8
800 m	Madelene Nordlund	T53			Did not start
	Gunilla Wallengren	T54	1:56.43	4 q	1:50.09	6
	Nathalie Nilsson	T12/13	2:32.70	4	Did not advance
1500 m	Gunilla Wallengren	T54	3:35.40	4	Did not advance
Long jump	Nathalie Nilsson	F13			4.43	11

Men's team

Event	Athletes	Classification	Qualifiers/Heat		Final
Event	Athletes	Classification	Result	Position	Result	Position
100 m	Per Jonsson	T13	11.71	6	Did not advance
200 m	Per Jonsson	T13	23.73	8	Did not advance
800 m	Aron Andersson	T54	1:46.42	6	Did not advance
1500 m	Aron Andersson	T54	3:21.00	7	Did not advance
5000 m	Aron Andersson	T54	11:30.79	10	Did not advance
Marathon	Aron Andersson	T54			1:32:36	26
Marathon	Henrik Rüffel (companion: Cedric Schwartzler)	T12			2:57:50	22

Equestrian

Athlete	Classification	Event	Team Test		Championship Test		Freestyle Test
Athlete	Classification	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Lotten Aronsson (Busy Lizzy)	Grade IV	Individual	61.857	10	64.839	6	68.362	6
Gabriella Löf (Oleander)	Grade III	Individual	60.231	6	56.960	11	65.055	9
Carolin Rutberg (Weltini)	Grade II	Individual	64.667	5	65.182	7	61.167	13

Goalball

Women

Åsa Alverstedt, Malin Gustavsson, Maria Juliusson, Josefine Jälmestål, Sofia Naesström, Anna Nilsson.

Preliminary

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Points
China (CHN)	7	6	1	0	21	7	14	19
United States (USA)	7	4	2	1	18	11	7	14
Denmark (DEN)	7	4	2	1	13	9	4	14
Sweden (SWE)	7	3	1	3	30	27	3	10
Canada (CAN)	7	2	3	2	15	13	2	9
Brazil (BRA)	7	2	1	4	21	24	-3	7
Japan (JPN)	7	2	0	5	8	16	-8	6
Germany (GER)	7	0	0	7	8	27	-19	0

7 September 13:00	Canada (CAN)	3–3	Sweden (SWE)	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium Referees: Nejc Jakic (SLO), Lena Bonke (DEN)
		(Report)	Josefine Jalmestal 2

8 September 21:00	Sweden (SWE)	4–1	Japan (JPN)	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium Referees: Patricia Fras(SLO), Nejc Jakic (SLO)
	Malin Gustavsson 2	(Report)

9 September 18:00	Sweden (SWE)	1–2	Denmark (DEN)	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium Referees: Kari Rasanen (FIN), Keith Lound (GBR)
		(Report)	Kamilla Ryding 2

10 September 18:00	Sweden (SWE)	3–5	China (CHN)	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium Referees: Balint Benko (HUN), Lena Bonke (DEN)
	Malin Gustavsson 2	(Report)	Ruixue Wang 4

11 September 13:00	Brazil (BRA)	4–5	Sweden (SWE)	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium Referees: Claude Dagenais (CAN), Patrick Gafney (USA)
	Simone Silva, Ana Carolina Custodio 2	(Report)	Malin Gustavsson 3

12 September 19:00	Germany (GER)	5–10	Sweden (SWE)	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium Referees: Lena Bonke (DEN), Kari Rasanen(FIN)
	Ina Fischer, Stefanie Schindler 2	(Report)	Malin Gustavsson, Josefine Jalmestal 5

13 September 11:00	United States (USA)	7–4	Sweden (SWE)	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium Referees: Christl Daentler (GER), Lena Bonke (DEN)
	Jen Armbruster 2, Asya Miller 5	(Report)	Malin Gustavsson 3

Semifinal

14 September 10:00	China (CHN)	1–1 (3–2)	Sweden (SWE)	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium Referees: Patrick Gafney (USA), Rudi Janssen (BEL)
	Ruixue Wang 2	(Report)	Malin Gustavsson 3

Bronze Medal Match

14 September 10:00	Denmark (DEN)	3–2	Sweden (SWE)	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium Referees: Pieter Westerhout (NED),Patricia Fras (SLO)
	Lykke Vedsted 2	(Report)	Malin Gustavsson 2

Men

Jimmy Björkstrand, Stefan Gahne, Niklas Hultkvist, Oskar Kuus, Fatmir Seremeti, Mikael Åkerberg.

Preliminary

Team	P	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Points
China (CHN)	5	4	1	57	25	32	12
Sweden (SWE)	5	4	1	41	30	11	12
Canada (CAN)	5	2	3	27	30	3	6
United States (USA)	5	2	3	16	37	-21	6
Iran (IRI)	5	2	3	29	34	-5	6
Brazil (BRA)	5	1	4	25	39	-14	3

7 September 10:00	Sweden (SWE)	8–6	Brazil (BRA)	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium Attendance: Patricia Fras (SLO), Balint Benko (HUN)
		(report)

8 September 10:00	China (CHN)	13–8	Sweden (SWE)	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium Referees: Pieter Westerhout (NED), Claude Dagenais (CAN)
		(Report)

9 September 17:00	Sweden (SWE)	10–5	Iran (IRI)	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium Referees: Lena Bonke (DEN), Dan Parisi(USA)
	Niklas Hultqvist 6, Jimmy Björkstrand 4	(Report)	Mohsen Jalilvand 4

10 September 20:00	Canada (CAN)	5–6	Sweden (SWE)	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium Referees: Keith Lound (GBR), Patrick Gafney (USA)
	Mario Caron 4	(Report)	Niklas Hultqvist 5

11 September 17:00	Sweden (SWE)	9–1	United States (USA)	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium Referees: Christl Daentler (GER), Allan Wareham (CAN)
	Jimmy Björkstrand 6, Niklas Hultqvist 2	(Report)

Quarterfinal

12 September 10:00	Denmark (DEN)	2–4	Sweden (SWE)	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium Referees: Eeva Sorkkila (FIN), Aurora Zanolin (ITA)
		(Report)	Niklas Hultqvist 3

Semifinal

13 September 19:00	Lithuania (LTU)	10–3	Sweden (SWE)	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium Referees: Clive Spencer (GBR), Pieter Westerhout (NED)
	Saulius Leonavicius 7, Nerijus Montvydas 2	(Report)	Fatmir Seremeti 2

Bronze Medal Match

14 September 18:00	Sweden (SWE)	5–2	United States (USA)	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium Referees: Claude Dagenais (CAN), Eeva Sorkkila (FIN)
	Fatmir Seremeti 2, Jimmy Björkstrand 3	(Report)

Judo

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage Quarterfinals	Repechage Semifinals	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Elvira Kivi	-63 kg	Khashtsetseg Batsukh (MGL) W 1000–0010	Naomi Soazo (VEN) L 0120–0240			Angelique Quessandier (FRA) L 0000–1010	5
Nicolina Pernheim	-70 kg		Lenia Ruvalcaba (MEX) L 0000–0200			Sanneke Vermeulen (NED) L 0001–0113	5

Sailing

Athlete	Event	Race											Score	Rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M	Score	Rank
Carl-Gustaf Fresk Birgitta Jacobsson Nilén	SKUD 18[2]	6	(9)	4	4	7	(12)	3	5	9	7		45	7

Shooting

Men

Athlete	Event	Classification	Qualification		Final		Rank
Athlete	Event	Classification	Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank
Jonas Jacobsson	10m Air Rifle Stand	SH1	596 WR	1 Q	104.5	700.5 FWR
	50m Free Rifle 3x40	SH1	1163 WR	1 Q	101.3	1264.3 FWR
	10m Air Rifle Prone	SH1	598	13	Did not advance		13
	50m Free Rifle Prone	SH1	592	1 Q	103.8	695.8
Håkan Gustavsson	10m Air Rifle Stand	SH1	579	16	Did not advance		16
	50m Free Rifle 3x40	SH1	1122	16	Did not advance		16
	10m Air Rifle Prone	SH1	578	44	Did not advance		44
	50m Free Rifle Prone	SH1	582	21	Did not advance		21
Kenneth Pettersson	10m Air Pistol	SH1	558	16	Did not advance		16
Kenneth Pettersson	25m Sport Pistol	SH1	554	12	Did not advance		12

Women

Athlete	Event	Classification	Qualification		Final		Rank
Athlete	Event	Classification	Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank
Lotta Helsinger	10m Air Rifle Stand	SH1	386	8 Q	101.2	487.2	6
	50m Sport Rifle 3x20	SH1	568	6 Q	91.9	659.9	7
	10m Air Rifle Prone	SH1	596	21	Did not advance		21
	50m Free Rifle Prone	SH1	581	23	Did not advance		23
Viktoria Wedin	10m Air Rifle Prone	SH2	600	1 Q	104.1	704.1
Viktoria Wedin	10m Air Rifle Stand	SH2	596	10	Did not advance		10

Swimming

Women

Event	Athletes	Classification	Heat		Final
Event	Athletes	Classification	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
50 m freestyle	Jennie Ekström	S4			53.74	4
100 m freestyle	Jennie Ekström	S4	2:00.22	2 Q	2:00.68	6
50 m butterfly	Lalita Loureiro	S7	39.47	3 Q	38.55	4
100 m breaststroke	Lalita Loureiro	SB6	1:59.00	9	Did not advance
150 m individual medley	Jennie Ekström	SM4			3:55.59	5
200 m individual medley	Lalita Loureiro	SM7	3:33.05	5	Did not advance

Men

Event	Athletes	Classification	Heat		Final
Event	Athletes	Classification	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
50 m freestyle	Christoffer Lindhe	S4	43.09	6 Q	42.75	6
50 m freestyle	Anders Olsson	S6	31.48	4 Q	31.07
100 m freestyle	Christoffer Lindhe	S4	1:30.98	3 Q	1:30.92	4
100 m freestyle	Anders Olsson	S6	1:07.68	1 Q	1:05.95
200 m freestyle	Christoffer Lindhe	S4	3:11.81	3 Q	3:11.84	4
200 m individual medley	Anders Olsson	SM6	3:03.35	3 Q	2:57.30	7
400 m freestyle	Anders Olsson	S6	5:00.41	1 Q	4:48.31 WR

Table tennis

Men

Athlete	Event	Group			Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Fredrik Andersson	Singles – Class 9/10	Manfredi Paolo Baroncelli (ITA) W 3–0	Jorge Cardona (ESP) W 3–0		Stanislaw Fraczyk (AUT) W 3–0	José Manuel Ruiz Reyes (ESP) W 3–2	Ma Lin (CHN) L 0–3	Gerben Last (NED) W 3–1
Ernst Bolldén	Singles – Class 4/5	Alexandre Ank (BRA) W 3–0	Lin Wen-Hsin (TPE) W 3–0		Sameh Saleh (EGY) L 2–3	Did not advance
Simon Itkonen	Singles – Class 6	Rungroj Thainiyom (THA) L 0–3	Nico Blok (NED) L 2–3	Michal Jensen (DEN) L 1–3	Did not advance
Linus Karlsson	Singles – Class 9/10	Ladislav Gaspar (SVK) W 3–1	Gerben Last (NED) L 0–3	Did not advance
Örjan Kylevik	Singles – Class 3	Arnie Chan (GBR) W 3–0	Tomas Piñas (ESP) L 1–3	Did not advance
Örjan Kylevik Ernst Bolldén	Team – Class 4-5				Slovakia W 3–0	South Korea L 2–3	Did not advance
Linus Karlsson Fredrik Andersson	Team – Class 9-10				Italy W 3–0	China L 2–3	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Group			Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Josefin Abrahamsson	Singles – Class 8	Jaroslava Janeckova (CZE) W 3–1	Thu Kamkasomphou (FRA) L 0–3	Olga Barbusova (SVK) W 3–0			Xiaoling Zhang (CHN) W 3–2	Thu Kamkasomphou (FRA) L 0–3
Anna-Carin Ahlquist	Singles – Class 3	Alet Moll (RSA) W 3–1	Marie-Christine Fillou (FRA) L 2–3	Michela Brunelli (ITA) W 3–1	Did not advance
Marleen Bengtsson Kovacs	Singles – Class 8	Claire Mairie (FRA) L 0–3	Xiaoling Zhang (CHN) L 0–3	Jane Karla Rodrigues (BRA) W 3–0	Did not advance
Ingela Lundbäck	Singles – Class 5	Hui-Chu Tsai (TPE) W 3–0	Maria Luiza Passos (BRA) W 3–0	Guixiang Ren (CHN) L 0–3	Did not advance
Ingela Lundbäck Anna-Carin Ahlquist	Team – Class 4-5				Poland W 3–1	China L 2–3	Did not advance

Wheelchair basketball

Men:

Enoch Ablorh, Joachim Gustavsson, Hussein Haidari, Peter Kohlström, Joakim Lindén, Patrik Nylander, Tomas Åkerberg, Niclas Larsson, Per Byquist, Dan Wallin, Thomas Larsson, Robin Meng.

Team	P	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Points
Canada (CAN)	5	5	0	372	276	96	15
Iran (IRI)	5	3	2	357	344	13	9
Germany (GER)	5	2	3	322	292	30	6
Japan (JPN)	5	2	3	265	319	-54	6
Sweden (SWE)	5	2	3	305	305	0	6
South Africa (RSA)	5	1	4	282	367	-85	3

Group A

September 7
11:15

(Report)

Japan (JPN)

49–61

Sweden (SWE)

Beijing National Indoor Stadium
Attendance: 1200
Referees: Sebastien Gauthier (CAN)

September 8
15:30

(Report)

Sweden (SWE)

66–92

Iran (IRI)

Beijing Science and Technology University Gymnasium
Attendance: 1376
Referees: Bill Kuerzi (USA)

September 9
18:30

(Report)

Canada (CAN)

62–52

Sweden (SWE)

Beijing Science and Technology University Gymnasium
Attendance: 8162
Referees: Gabriele Caligiuri (AUS)

September 10
11:15

(Report)

Sweden (SWE)

58–64

South Africa (RSA)

Beijing National Indoor Stadium
Attendance: 7262
Referees: Sergio Giordano (CAN)

September 11
13:30

(Report)

Germany (GER)

78–72

Sweden (SWE)

Beijing National Indoor Stadium
Referees: Antonia Gomez Ruf (ESP)

Classification 9TH-12TH

September 12
09:00

(Report)

Brazil (BRA)

75–56

Sweden (SWE)

Beijing National Indoor Stadium
Referees: Sebastien Gauthier (CAN)

Classification 11TH-12TH

September 14
15:45

(Report)

Sweden (SWE)

63–45

China (CHN)

Beijing National Indoor Stadium
Referees: Jorg-Ulrich Otto (GER)

Wheelchair tennis

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Stefan Olsson	Men's singles	Wasiu Yusuf (NGR) W 2–0	Taneli Tenhunen (FIN) W 2–0	Nicolas Peifer (FRA) W 2–0	Shingo Kunieda (JPN) L 0–2	Did not advance
Peter Wikström	Men's singles	Piotr Jaroszewski (POL) W 2–0	Michael Dobbie (AUS) W 2–0	Stéphane Houdet (FRA) L 0–2	Did not advance
Johan Andersson	Quad Singles			Brent Poppen (USA) W 2–0	Dorrie Timmermans-v Hall (NED) W 2–0	David Wagner (USA) W 2–1	Peter Norfolk (GBR) L 0–2
Christer Jansson	Quad Singles			Sadahiro Kimura (JPN) L 1–2	Did not advance
Stefan Olsson Peter Wikström	Men's Doubles			Lee Hinson (USA) Paul Moran (USA) W 2–0	Eric Stuurman (NED) Robin Ammerlaan (NED) W 2–0	Shingo Kunieda (JPN) Satoshi Saida (JPN) W 2–1	Stéphane Houdet (FRA) Michael Jeremaiasz (FRA) L 0–2
Johan Andersson Christer Jansson	Quad Doubles				Boaz Kramer (ISR) Shraga Weinberg (ISR) L 0–2	Did not advance

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External links

References

"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-10-08. Retrieved 2016-10-02.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
"National Line Up For 2008 Paralympic Sailing Competition", International Association for Disabled Sailing, July 16, 2008

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[2] "National Line Up For 2008 Paralympic Sailing Competition", International Association for Disabled Sailing, July 16, 2008

Nations at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China
Africa	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cape Verde Central African Republic Egypt Ethiopia Gabon Ghana Guinea Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Libya Madagascar Mali Mauritius Namibia Morocco Nigeria Niger Rwanda Senegal South Africa Tanzania Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
America	Argentina Barbados Bermuda Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Panama Peru Puerto Rico Suriname United States Uruguay Venezuela
Asia	Afghanistan Bahrain Bangladesh Cambodia China East Timor Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Iraq Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Lebanon Laos Macau Malaysia Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Oman Palestine Pakistan Philippines Qatar Saudi Arabia Singapore South Korea Sri Lanka Syria Chinese Taipei Tajikistan Thailand Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam
Europe	Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Faroe Islands Finland France Germany Georgia Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine
Oceania	Australia Fiji New Zealand Papua New Guinea Samoa Tonga Vanuatu

Sweden at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Medalists

Archery

Athletics

Women's team

Men's team

Equestrian

Goalball

Women

Men

Judo

Sailing

Shooting

Swimming

Table tennis

Wheelchair basketball

Wheelchair tennis

See also

External links

References