Sweden at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

At 7 September 2015, one year before the opening ceremony, the Swedish Parasports Federation nominated the first athletes for the Swedish team.[1]

Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis.[2][3] Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing. Some sports, such as athletics, divide athletes by both the category and severity of their disabilities, other sports, for example swimming, group competitors from different categories together, the only separation being based on the severity of the disability.[4]

Helene Ripa, paralympic gold and silver medallist in cross-country skiing in the 2014 Winter Paralympics qualified for her first summer paralympic games in canoe sprint.

With one pathway for qualification being one highest ranked NPCs on the UCI Para-Cycling male and female Nations Ranking Lists on 31 December 2014, Sweden qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, assuming they continued to meet all other eligibility requirements.[5][6] In total, Sweden secured four quota places in road cycling.

The country earned an additional individual slot via the Para Equestrian Individual Ranking List Allocation method following the suspension of Russia, and France Finland not using one of their allocated spots.[7]

Athlete	Horse	Event	Final
			Result	Rank
Louise Etzner Jakobsson	Zernard	Individual Championship test grade III	70.341
		Individual Freestyle test grade III	73.650
Anita Johnsson	Dear Friend	Individual Championship test grade Ia	70.870	8
		Individual Freestyle test grade Ia	62.050	8

Summary

Key:

Team	Event	Group Stage					Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Sweden men's	Men's tournament	Brazil L 6–9	Algeria W 12–6	Germany W 9–5	Canada W 6–3	2	Turkey W 5–1	Lithuania L 2–7	Brazil L 5–6ET	4

Men's tournament

The men's national team qualified after finishing in third place at the 2015 IBSA World Games in Seoul.[8] Sweden's men enter the tournament ranked 13th in the world.[9]

Squad

The following is the Sweden roster in the men's goalball tournament of the 2016 Summer Paralympics.[10]

No.	Player	Class	Date of birth (age)
1	Fatmir Seremeti	B2	(1983-04-10)10 April 1983 (aged 33)
3	Stefan Gahne	B2	(1982-01-15)15 January 1982 (aged 34)
4	Nils Posse	B2	(1997-10-28)28 October 1997 (aged 18)
5	Jimmy Björkstrand	B3	(1979-05-04)4 May 1979 (aged 37)
7	Mikael Åkerberg	B3	(1982-07-01)1 July 1982 (aged 34)
8	Peter Weichel	B3	(1982-12-23)23 December 1982 (aged 33)

Preliminary round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil (H)	4	4	0	0	42	15	+27	12	Quarter-finals
2	Sweden	4	3	0	1	33	23	+10	9
3	Germany	4	1	0	3	24	26	−2	3
4	Canada	4	1	0	3	26	39	−13	3
5	Algeria	4	1	0	3	25	47	−22	3

Source: Paralympic.org
(H) Hosts

8 September 2016 09:00	Brazil	9–6	Sweden	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Bülent Kimyon (TUR), Patricia Fras (SLO)
	Moreno 5 Sousa 2 Marques 1 Celente 1	Report	Björkstrand 5 Seremeti 1

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9 September 2016 17:30	Sweden	12–6	Algeria	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Daniel Voltan (BRA), Yoshinori Nii (JPN)
	Weichel 5 Björkstrand 4 Seremeti 3	Report	Belhouchat 5 Mokrane 1

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12 September 2016 09:00	Sweden	9–5	Germany	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Bülent Kimyon (TUR), Dawna Christy (CAN)
	Björkstrand 4 Seremeti 3 Gahne 2	Report	Feistle 3 Horauf 2

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13 September 2016 14:15	Canada	3–6	Sweden	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Alexander Knecht (GER), Vilma Basinkaite (LTU)
	Nesbitt 2 Zeividavi 1	Report	Björkstrand 3 Seremeti 3

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Quarterfinal

14 September 2016 21:00	Sweden	5–1	Turkey	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Nejc Jakic (SLO), Yoshinori Nii (JPN)
	Seremeti 2 Weichel 2 Björkstrand 1	Report	Akyüz

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Semifinal

15 September 2016 18:30	Lithuania	7–2	Sweden	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Yoshinori Nii (JPN), Raquel Aguado (ESP)
	Pavliukianec 5 Pazarauskas 2	Report	Seremeti 1 Weichel 1

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Bronze medal match

16 September 2016 15:00	Brazil	6–5 (a.e.t.)	Sweden	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Bülent Kimyon (TUR), Yoshinori Nii (JPN)
	Moreno 4 Sousa 2	Report	Björkstrand 3 Seremeti 2

Sweden have qualified one judoka for the Games.

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Bronze medal	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Nicolina Pernheim	Women's 63 kg	Jin (KOR) L 000–110	Did not advance	Bye	Tursunpashsha (UZB) L 000–100	Did not advance	5

One pathway for qualifying for Rio involved having a boat have top seven finish at the 2015 Combined World Championships in a medal event where the country had nor already qualified through via the 2014 IFDS Sailing World Championships. Sweden qualified for the 2016 Games under this criteria in the 2.4m event with a fifteenth-place finish overall and the fifth country who had not qualified via the 2014 Championships. The boat was crewed by Fia Fjelddahl.[11][12][13]

The first opportunity to qualify for shooting at the Rio Games took place at the 2014 IPC Shooting World Championships in Suhl. Shooters earned spots for their NPC. Sweden earned a qualifying spot at this event in the R1 – 10m Air Rifle standing men SH1 event as a result of Jonas Jakobsson winning a gold medal. Jakobsson set a new European record of during qualifyingin the R1 event. Sweden qualified another shooter in the R7 – 50m rifle 3 positions Men SH1 event after Jakobsson won a gold medal in this event. Joackim Norberg earned the country another spot in the P1 – 10m Air Pistol Men SH1 event.[14][15][16]

The third opportunity for direct qualification for shooters to the Rio Paralympics took place at the 2015 IPC Shooting World Cup in Sydney, Australia. At this competition, Ellinor Axelsson Vaughn earned a qualifying spot for their country in the R5- Mixed 10m Air Rifle Prone SH2 event. Håkan Gustafsson earned a second spot for Sweden at this competition in the R7- Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions event. Lotta Helsinger claimed a third spot for Rio at this competition in the R8- Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions event.[15][17]

The last direct qualifying event for Rio in shooting took place at the 2015 IPC Shooting World Cup in Fort Benning in November. Philip Jönsson earned a qualifying spot for their country at this competition in the R4 Mixed 10m Air Rifle Standing SH2 event.[15][18]

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Semifinal		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Ellinor Axelsson Vaughn	Mixed 10 m air rifle prone SH2	627.5	26	—		Did not advance
	Mixed 10 m air rifle standing SH2	625.7	16	—		Did not advance
Håkan Gustafsson	Men's 10 m air rifle standing SH1	614.2	10	—		Did not advance
	Men's 50 m air rifle 3 positions SH1	1123-25x	17	—		Did not advance
Lotta Helsinger	Mixed 50 m air rifle prone SH1	Did not start		—		Did not advance
	Women's 10 m air rifle standing SH1	385.6	19	—		Did not advance
	Women's 50 m rifle 3 positions SH1	550-12x	12	—		Did not advance
Martin Häll	Men's 10 m air rifle standing SH1	610.9	15	—		Did not advance
	Men's 50 m air rifle 3 positions SH1	1115-27x	19	—		Did not advance
	Mixed 10 m air rifle prone SH1	622.6	36	—		Did not advance
	Mixed 50 m air rifle prone SH1	589.1	41	—		Did not advance
Jonas Jacobsson	Men's 10 m air rifle standing SH1	615.5	9	—		Did not advance
	Men's 50 m air rifle 3 positions SH1	1138-39x	10	—		Did not advance
	Mixed 10 m air rifle prone SH1	623.7	34	—		Did not advance
	Mixed 50 m air rifle prone SH1	614.4	11	—		Did not advance
Philip Jönsson	Mixed 10 m air rifle prone SH2	634.1	8 Q	—		83.0	8
	Mixed 10 m air rifle standing SH2	632.4	5 Q	—		82.5	8
Joackim Norberg	Men's 10 m air pistol SH1	557-13x	13	—		Did not advance
	Mixed 25 m pistol SH1	573-18x	4 Q	12	1 QG	5
	Mixed 50 m pistol SH1	520-4x	16	—		Did not advance
Håkan Sköld	Men's 10 m air pistol SH1	551-12x	23	—		Did not advance
	Mixed 25 m pistol SH1	531-7x	27	Did not advance
	Mixed 50 m pistol SH1	517-4x	20	—		Did not advance

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Karl Forsman	400 m freestyle S6	6:04.09	10	Did not advance
	100 m breaststroke SB5	1:33.47	1 Q	1:34.27
Mikael Fredriksson	50 m freestyle S3	52.26 NR	7 Q	55.74	8
	200 m freestyle S3	—		4:17.70 NR	8
	50 m backstroke S3	56.91	8 Q	56.53	7
	150 m individual medley SM3	3:24.81	7 Q	3:28.28	7
Ludvig Nyrén	100 m freestyle S10	58.55	19	Did not advance
	400 m freestyle S10	4:24.90	13	Did not advance
	100 m butterfly S10	1:02.43	11	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Pernilla Lindberg	200 m freestyle S14	2:13.74	3 Q	2:12.54	4
	100 m breaststroke SB14	1:23.88	7 Q	1:23.42	7
	100 m backstroke S14	1:15.54	5 Q	1:15.40	5
	200 m individual medley SM14	2:35.26	4 Q	2:36.30	4
Maja Reichard	50 m freestyle S11	31.05	2 Q	30.76 ER
	100 m freestyle S11	1:11.98	6 Q	1:10.53	6
	100 m backstroke S11	1:25.19	7 Q	1:21.46 NR
	100 m butterfly S13	1:20.70	17	Did not advance
	100 m breaststroke SB11	—		1:26.60
	200 m individual medley SM11	2:55.80	3 Q	2:51.72 NR
Lina Watz	50 m freestyle S10	28.93	5 Q	29.69	8
	100 m freestyle S10	1:05.74	14	Did not advance
	400 m freestyle S10	4:57.62	9	Did not advance
	100 m backstroke S10	1:13.27	10	Did not advance
	100 m butterfly S10	1:14.50	11	Did not advance

Legend: Q=Qualified; ER=European record; NR=National record

Men

Athlete	Event	Group			Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Emil Andersson	Singles class 8	Skrznecki (POL) L 2–3	Wilson (GBR) W 3–2	2 Q	Zborai (HUN) W 3–1	Zhao (CHN) L 0–3	Did not advance
Linus Karlsson		Csonka (HUN) W 3–2	Manara (BRA) W 3–2	1 Q	Bouvais (FRA) W 3–1	Grudzień (POL) L 2–3	Did not advance
Victor Sjöqvist	Singles class 3	Knaf (BRA) L 0–3	Zhai Xa (CHN) L 0–3	3	Did not advance
Alexander Öhgren		Koleosho (NGR) W 3–1	Petruniv (UKR) W 3–2	1 Q	Gürtler (GER) L 0–3	Did not advance
Victor Sjöqvist Alexander Öhgren	Team class 3	—				Germany (GER) L 0–2	Did not advance		5
Emil Andersson Linus Karlsson	Team class 6–8	—			Bye	Slovakia (SVK) W 2–0	China (CHN) W 2–1	Ukraine (UKR) L 0–2

Women

Athlete	Event	Group			Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Anna-Carin Ahlquist	Singles class 3	Sigala Lopez (MEX) W 3–0	Head (GBR) W 3–0	1 Q	Bye	Muzinic (CRO) W 3–2	Xue (CHN) L 1–3	Yoon (KOR) W 3–0
Ingela Lundbäck	Singles class 5	Y-A Jung (KOR) L 0–3	Roden (FIJ) W 3–0	2 Q	—	Abuawad (JOR) W 3–0	Zhang (CHN) L 1–3	Y-A Jung (KOR) L 1–3	4
Anna-Carin Ahlquist Ingela Lundbäck	Team class 4–5	—			Bye	Mexico (MEX) W 2–1	Serbia (SRB) L 1–2	South Korea (KOR) L 1–2	4

Summary

Key:

Team	Group Stage				Semifinal	Final / BM
	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Sweden	Japan L 46–50	United States L 44–54	France W 55–47	3	Did not advance	Great Britain L 42–56	6

Sweden qualified by reaching the final of the 2015 International Wheelchair Rugby Federation European Championship.[19]

• Team competition – one team of 12 players

Roster

The following is the Sweden roster in the wheelchair rugby tournament of the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

Preliminary round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	United States	3	3	0	0	165	142	+23	6	Semi-finals
2	Japan	3	2	0	1	163	155	+8	4
3	Sweden	3	1	0	2	145	151	−6	2	Fifth place Match
4	France	3	0	0	3	141	166	−25	0	Seventh place Match

14 September 2016

16:00

Japan	50–46	Sweden
	Report

Carioca Arena 1, Rio de Janeiro

Referee: Mitch Carr, Darren Roberts

15 September 2016

10:30

Sweden	44–54	United States
	Report

Carioca Arena 1, Rio de Janeiro

Referee: Alexander Schriener, Lukasz Symczak

16 September 2016

10:30

France	47–55	Sweden
	Report

Carioca Arena 1, Rio de Janeiro

Referee: Mitch Carr, Jean Choiniere

Fifth place Match

17 September 2016

19:15

Great Britain	56–42	Sweden
	Report

Carioca Arena 1, Rio de Janeiro

Referee: Lukasz Symczak

Stefan Olsson and Dan Wallin have been selected by Sweden's Paralympic Committee.[20] Stefan Olsson qualified via the standard qualification route, while Dan Wallin qualified via a Doubles World Ranking Allocation place.[21]

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
Stefan Olsson	Men's singles	Bye	Weekes (AUS) W 6–0, 6–3	Sanada (JPN) W 6–2, 7–6	Hewett (GBR) L 1–6, 6–2, 3–6	Did not advance
Dan Wallin		Denayer (BEL) W 6–2, 6–2	Reid (GBR) L 1–6, 2–6	Did not advance
Stefan Olsson Dan Wallin	Men's doubles	—	Baldwin / Rydberg (USA) W 6–3, 6–2	Cattanéo / Jérémiasz (FRA) L 3–6, 1–6	Did not advance

• Sweden at the 2016 Summer Olympics