Sweden at the 2008 Summer Olympics

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Sweden at the Olympic Games
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At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing
Competitors	62 individuals and 11 teams selected so far
Medals	Gold 0	Silver 0	Bronze 0	Total 0
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Sweden will compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China. This is a list of all of the Swedish athletes who have qualified for the Olympics.^[1]

Contents 1 Selected athletes 1.1 Archery 1.2 Athletics 1.3 Badminton 1.4 Boxing 1.5 Canoeing 1.6 Cycling 1.7 Diving 1.8 Equestrian 1.9 Football 1.10 Handball 1.11 Rowing 1.12 Sailing 1.13 Shooting 1.14 Swimming 1.15 Table tennis 1.16 Taekwondo 1.17 Wrestling 2 References

[edit] Selected athletes

[edit] Archery

• Magnus Petersson

[edit] Athletics

• Magnus Arvidsson
• Emma Green
• Stefan Holm
• Susanna Kallur
• Carolina Klüft
• Mustafa Mohamed
• Christian Olsson
• Linus Thörnblad
• Johan Wissman

[edit] Badminton

• Sara Persson

[edit] Boxing

Sweden qualified two boxers for the Olympic boxing tournament. Terbunja qualified in the middleweight at the first European qualifying tournament.^[2] Katende qualified in the light heavyweight class at the second qualifier.^[3]

• Middleweight: Naim Terbunja
• Light heavyweight: Kennedy Katende

[edit] Canoeing

• Anders Gustafsson
• Markus Oscarsson
• Sofia Paldanius

[edit] Cycling

• Emma Johansson
• Fredrik Kessiakoff
• Gustav Larsson
• Marcus Ljungkvist
• Susanne Ljungskog
• Thomas Lövkvist

[edit] Diving

• Elina Eggers
• Anna Lindberg

[edit] Equestrian

• Dressage (team)
• Eventing (team)
• Show jumping (team)

[edit] Football

• Women's team

[edit] Handball

• Women's team

[edit] Rowing

• Lassi Karonen
• Frida Svensson

[edit] Sailing

• Daniel Birgmark
• Anders Ekström
• Fredrik Lööf
• Rasmus Myrgren
• Karin Söderström
• Therese Torgersson
• Vendela Santén

[edit] Shooting

• Håkan Dahlby
• Nathalie Larsson

[edit] Swimming

• Therese Alshammar
• Jonas Andersson
• Eva Berglund
• Gabriella Fagundez
• Lars Frölander
• Petra Granlund
• Claire Hedenskog
• Joline Höstman
• Anna-Karin Kammerling
• Josefin Lillhage
• Ida Marko-Varga
• Stefan Nystrand
• Jonas Persson
• Marcus Piehl
• Simon Sjödin
• Sarah Sjöström
• Petter Stymne
• Hanna Westrin
• Men's 4×100 m freestyle relay
• Women's 4×100 m freestyle relay
• Women's 4×200 m freestyle relay
• Men's 4×100 m medley relay
• Women's 4×100 m medley relay

[edit] Table tennis

• Pär Gerell
• Jens Lundqvist
• Jörgen Persson
• Men's Team

[edit] Taekwondo

• Karolina Kedzierska
• Hanna Zajc

[edit] Wrestling

• Ara Abrahamian
• Jenny Fransson
• Ida-Theres Nerell
• Sofia Mattsson

[edit] References

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