Sweden at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

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Sweden will compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, held between 9–18 March 2018. They sent a team of 21 participants in 5 sports.^[1]

Sweden at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

IPC code	SWE
NPC	Swedish Parasports Federation
in Pyeongchang
Competitors	24 in 5 sports
Flag bearer	Ronny Persson
Medals	Gold 0 Silver 1 Bronze 0 Total 1
Winter Paralympics appearances (overview)
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Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Silver	Zebastian Modin Guide: Robin Bryntesson	Cross-country skiing	Men's 1.5 km sprint visually impaired	14 March

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Games per sport.

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Alpine skiing	1	0	1
Biathlon	1	0	1^{[note 1]}
Cross-country skiing	1	0	1^{[note 1]}
Ice sledge hockey	17	0	17
Wheelchair curling	3	2	5
Total	22	2	24

Alpine skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Aaron Lindström	Slalom standing	51.72	10	51.23	5	1:42.95	7
	Giant slalom standing	1:12.19	20	1:12.97	18	2:25.16	16
	Super-G standing	N/a				1:31.77	18

Biathlon

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Misses	Rank
Zebastian Modin Guide: Johannes Andersson	7.5 km visually impaired	21:59.3	5 (4+1)	7

Cross-country skiing

Men's distance

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Zebastian Modin Guide: Johannes Andersson	10 km classical visually impaired	did not finish
Zebastian Modin Guide: Johannes Andersson	20 km free visually impaired	47:28.9	4

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Zebastian Modin Guide: Robin Bryntesson	1.5 km sprint visually impaired	3:27.96	1 Q	N/a		4:21.4	1 Q	4:05.7

Para ice hockey

Summary

Key:

OT – Overtime
GWS – Match decided by penalty-shootout

Team	Group stage				Semifinal / Pl.	Final / BM / Pl.
Team	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Sweden men's	Canada L 0–17	Italy L 0–2	Norway L 1–3	4	Czech Republic L 3–4 GWS	Japan W 5–1	7

Roster: Daniel Cederstam, Maximillian Gyllsten, Christian Hedberg, Marcus Holm, Kenth Jonsson, Göran Karlsson, Per Kasperi, Niklas Ingvarsson, Rasmus Lundgren, Martin Magnevill, Robin Meng, Andreas Nejman, Peter Nilsson, Ulf Nilsson, Peter Ojala, Niklas Rakos, Anders Wistrand

Preliminary round

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Canada	3	3	0	0	0	35	0	+35	9	Semifinals
2	Italy	3	1	1	0	1	5	12	−7	5	Semifinals
3	Norway	3	1	0	1	1	5	12	−7	4	5–8th place semifinals
4	Sweden	3	0	0	0	3	1	22	−21	0	5–8th place semifinals

Source: PyeongChang 2018

10 March 2018
19:00

Canada

17–0
(7–0, 5–0, 5–0)

Gangneung Hockey Centre
Attendance: 5,445

Corbin Watson
Dominic Larocque

Goalies

Ulf Nilsson
Andreas Nejman

Referee:

Kristijan Nikolic
Linesmen:

Han Youl

Jan Vaněk

McGregor (Hickey, Dixon) (PP) – 01:52	1–0
Sholomicki (Armstrong, Dunn) – 02:22	2–0
McGregor (Westlake, Hickey) – 05:22	3–0
Sholomicki (Dunn, Dixon) – 05:39	4–0
McGregor (Westlake, Dixon) – 09:20	5–0
Dixon (Delaney, Smith) – 11:13	6–0
Cozzolino (Delaney, Dixon) – 11:31	7–0
Delaney (Armstrong, Cozzolino) (PP) – 17:43	8–0
Smith (Sholomicki, Dunn) – 18:06	9–0
Hickey (Armstrong, Henry) – 24:37	10–0
Hickey (Westlake, McGregor) – 25:37	11–0
Armstrong (Sholomicki) – 26:38	12–0
Bridges – 31:55	13–0
Armstrong (Bridges, Cozzolino) – 33:05	14–0
Sholomicki (Smith, Dunn) – 34:53	15–0
McGregor (Dixon) – 36:48	16–0
Westlake (McGregor, Hickey) – 44:42	17–0

2 min

Penalties

6 min

45

Shots

2

12 March 2018
19:00

Italy

2–0
(1–0, 0–0, 1–0)

Gangneung Hockey Centre
Attendance: 4,322

Gabriele Araudo

Goalies

Referee:

Sotaro Yamaguchi
Linesmen:

Jan Vaněk

Leon Wesley

Kalegaris (Planker, Rosa) (PP) – 13:16	1–0
Rosa – 39:36	2–0

10 min

Penalties

8 min

20

Shots

2

13 March 2018
15:30

Norway

3–1
(1–0, 1–0, 1–1)

Gangneung Hockey Centre
Attendance: 6,059

Goalies

Referee:

Sotaro Yamaguchi
Linesmen:

Chae Young-jin

Jan Vaněk

Nordstoga (Bøgle) – 13:07	1–0
Bøgle (Hamre, Solberg) (PP) – 25:00	2–0
	2–1	31:35 – Gyllsten (Kasperi, P. Nilsson)
Bøgle (Værnes) (ENG) – 43:45	3–1

4 min

Penalties

16 min

19

Shots

10

5–8th place semifinal

14 March 2018
16:00

Czech Republic

4–3 GWS
(1–2, 0–1, 2–0)
(OT: 0–0)
(SO: 1–0)

Gangneung Hockey Centre
Attendance: 6,032

Michal Vápenka

Goalies

Referee:

Owe Lüthcke
Linesmen:

Matthew Fergenbaum

Han Youl

	0–1	06:14 – Ingvarsson
	0–2	07:10 – Kasperi
Krupička (PP) – 08:59	1–2
	1–3	16:12 – Ingvarsson (Gyllsten, Kasperi)
Hábl (Kubeš, Geier) (PP2) – 34:47	2–3
Doležal (Geier, Kubeš) – 43:25	3–3

Geier

Krupička

Hábl

Geier

Shootout

Kasperi

Gyllsten

Ingvarsson

Ingvarsson

8 min

Penalties

10 min

25

Shots

8

Seventh place game

16 March 2018
16:00

1–5
(0–1, 1–2, 0–2)

Sweden

Gangneung Hockey Centre
Attendance: 5,979

Shinobu Fukushima

Goalies

Referee:

Owe Lüthcke
Linesmen:

Jan Vaněk

Leon Wesley

	0–1	00:52 – Gyllsten (Kasperi, Meng)
Takahashi (Uehara) – 16:25	1–1
	1–2	19:19 – Ingvarsson (Meng, Kasperi) (PP)
	1–3	27:33 – Kasperi (Hedberg) (SH)
	1–4	37:24 – Holm (Rakos, Kasperi)
	1–5	44:17 – Ingvarsson (Gyllsten, P. Nilsson)

4 min

Penalties

4 min

10

Shots

14

Wheelchair curling

Summary

Team	Event	Group stage												Tiebreaker	Semifinal	Final / BM
Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Viljo Petersson Dahl Ronny Persson Mats-Ola Engborg Kristina Ulander Zandra Reppe	Mixed	CHN L 4–9	CAN L 4–8	USA L 2–10	SVK L 3–8	GBR L 1–6	NOR W 5–4	GER W 9–5	FIN L 5–6	KOR L 2–4	NPA W 7–3	SUI W 5–3	10	did not advance

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	PCT	Ends Won	Ends Lost	Blank Ends	Stolen Ends	Shot %	Qualification
1	South Korea	11	9	2	65	51	14	0.818	38	36	9	11	66%	Advance to playoffs
2	Canada	11	9	2	74	45	29	0.818	47	28	6	27	62%
3	China	11	9	2	85	42	43	0.818	43	32	2	16	67%
4	Norway	11	7	4	55	57	−2	0.636	41	35	5	15	58%
5	Neutral Paralympic Athletes	11	5	6	61	63	−2	0.455	44	37	2	23	62%
6	Switzerland	11	5	6	56	63	−7	0.455	36	45	2	11	61%
7	Great Britain	11	5	6	57	53	4	0.455	41	41	6	20	62%
8	Germany	11	5	6	57	68	−11	0.455	37	39	5	16	54%
9	Slovakia	11	4	7	62	72	−10	0.364	39	46	1	11	57%
10	Sweden	11	4	7	47	66	−19	0.364	29	45	8	8	57%
11	Finland	11	2	9	53	87	−34	0.182	35	46	1	11	51%
12	United States	11	2	9	58	63	−5	0.182	37	45	3	12	60%

Source: Paralympic.org

Round-robin

Sweden has a bye in draws 1, 3, 8, 11, 13 and 15.

Draw 2

Saturday, 10 March, 19:35

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Sweden (Petersson Dahl)	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	X	4
China (Wang) 🔨	1	3	0	1	0	4	0	X	9

Draw 4

Sunday, 11 March, 14:35

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Canada (Ideson) 🔨	0	0	4	1	1	0	0	2	8
Sweden (Petersson Dahl)	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	4

Draw 5

Sunday, 11 March, 19:35

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
United States (Black) 🔨	2	2	1	1	0	2	2	X	10
Sweden (Petersson Dahl)	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	X	2

Draw 6

Monday, 12 March, 09:35

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Sweden (Petersson Dahl)	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	X	3
Slovakia (Ďuriš) 🔨	3	0	2	1	0	1	1	X	8

Draw 7

Monday, 12 March, 14:35

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Sweden (Petersson Dahl)	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	X	1
Great Britain (Neilson) 🔨	2	1	1	1	1	0	0	X	6

Draw 9

Tuesday, 13 March, 09:35

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Norway (Stordahl)	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	4
Sweden (Petersson Dahl) 🔨	0	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	5

Draw 10

Tuesday, 13 March, 14:35

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Sweden (Petersson Dahl) 🔨	1	3	2	2	0	0	1	0	9
Germany (Putzich)	0	0	0	0	3	1	1	0	5

Draw 12

Wednesday, 14 March, 9:35

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Finland (S. Karjalainen) 🔨	2	0	1	2	0	0	1	0	6
Sweden (Petersson Dahl)	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	1	5

Draw 14

Wednesday, 14 March, 19:35

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
South Korea (Seo)	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	X	4
Sweden (Petersson Dahl) 🔨	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	X	2

Draw 16

Thursday, 15 March, 14:35

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Neutral Paralympic Athletes (Kurokhtin) 🔨	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	X	3
Sweden (Petersson Dahl)	0	0	2	3	2	0	0	X	7

Draw 17

Thursday, 15 March, 19:35

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Sweden (Petersson Dahl) 🔨	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	3	5
Switzerland (Wagner)	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	3

See also

Sweden at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Notes

1 2 Zebastian Modin will take part in two sports; biathlon and cross-country skiing.

References

↑ Hjelmberg, Henrik. "Svenska truppen till Paralympics uttagen". Sveriges Paralympiska Kommitté. Archived from the original on 26 February 2018. Retrieved 25 February 2018.

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