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11 medals in 22 Olympic Games tournaments Sweden has won totally 11 Olympic Games medals during 22 tournaments. Sweden´s mens team has won nine Olympic Games medals during 21 tournaments. Sweden won the Gold Medal in 2006 and 1994, Silver Medal in 2014, 1964 and 1928 and Bronze Medal in 1988, 1984, 1980 and 1952. Sweden´s womens team has won two Olympic Games medals during 6 tournaments. Sweden won the Silver Medal in 2006 and Bronze Medal in 2002. Here is a list of Team Sweden´s participating in Olympic Games Ice Hockey tournaments. 2018 in Gangneung, Soth Korea, men Sweden ended at Fifth Place in Olympic Games in Gangneung, South Korea, 2018. In Quarter Final Germany was the better team and won with 4-3 after 01.30 in Overtime. In preliminary round Sweden won all three games against Norway, Germany and Finland. Forward Linus Omark was team Sweden´s Scoring Leader with seven assist in four games. Results: Norway 4-0, Germany 1-0, Finland 3-1, Germany 3-4 after 01.30 in Overtime. 2018 in Gangneung, Soth Korea, women Sweden ended at Seventh Place in Olympic Games in Gangneung, South Korea, 2018. Forward Fanny Rask was team Sweden´s Scoring Leader with six points, two goals and four assist, in six games. Results: Japan 2-1, South Korea 8-0, Switzerland 1-2, Finland 1-7, Japan 1-2 after 03.16 in Overtime, South Korea 6-1. 2014 in Sochi in Russia, men Sweden won the Olympic Games Silver Medal in Sochi, Russia, 2014. Canada was too strong in the Gold Medal Game and won with 3-0. Canada was better and Sweden would have needed all their best players to make a better result in the final. Before the tournament started Sweden faced injuries on key players as Henrik Sedin and Johan Franzén. When the tournament started the team captain and first center Henrik Zetterberg got injured after one game and couldn´t play any more in the Olympics. On top of these problems was second center Nicklas Bäckström relegated and missed the Gold Medal Game because of too high level of medicin in his body. One of the highlights in the tournament was the semi final winning game against Finland, 2-1. Defenceman Erik Karlsson was Sweden´s scoring leader with 8 points after 4 goals and 4 assist. Team Sweden´s results: Czech Republic 4-2, Switzerland 1-0, Latvia 5-3, Slovenia 5-0, Finland 2-1, Canada 0-3. Individual awards: The Olympic Games Directorate named Erik Karlsson best defencemen in the tournament. Henrik Lundqvist were named goalkeeper and Erik Karlsson defenceman in medias All Star Team. 2014 in Sochi in Russia, women Sweden ended at fourth place in Sochi, Russia, 2014. Sweden lost the bronze medal game against Switzerland, 3-4. One of the highlights was the quarter final winning game against Finland, 4-2. Finland had the lead with 2-0 after two periods. Then Sweden scored four straight goals in the third period. Pernilla Winberg was Sweden´s scoring leaders with 7 points after 3 goals and 4 assist in six games. Sweden´s results: Japan 1-0, Germany 4-0, Russia 1-3, Finland 4-2, USA 1-6, Switzerland 3-4. 2010 in Vancouver, Canada, men Team Sweden ended at fifth place in Olympic Games in Vancouver, Canada, 2010. Slovakia won against Sweden in the Quarter Final game with 4-3. Team Sweden´s games: Germany 2-0, Belarus 4-2, Finland 3-0, Slovakia 3-4. Highlight of the tournament: Goalkeeper Henrik Lundqvist had a shutout when Sweden won against Finland with 3-0. 2010 in Vancouver, Canada, women Team Sweden ended at fourth place in Olympic Games in Vancouver, Canada, 2010. Finland won against Sweden in the Bronze Medal game with 3-2 after 02.33 in Overtime. Team Sweden´s games: Switzerland 3-0, Slovakia 6-2, Canada 1-3, USA 1-9, Finland 2-3. Highlight of the tournament: Forward Pernilla Winberg scored four goals in the 6-2 game against Slovakia. 2006 in Torino in Italy, men In men´s tournament Sweden won the Olympic Games Gold Medal. Highlights of the tournament: Winning the Gold Medal game with 3-2 against Finland. The Gold Medal winning goal was very nice to see, especially since three of Sweden´s best players ever were involved in the operation. Mats Sundin was handling the face off in neutral zone and puck went away from him and then Peter Forsberg took it and went into Finland´s zone and dropped the puck back to Sundin. He dropped it back to Nicklas Lidström who immediately took a magnific shot which went into the net in the upper left corner of the Finnish goal. This precision in the shot was extremely good and Nicklas Lidström really deserved this success. The Olympic Games directorate named Kenny Jönsson best defencemen in the tournament. Media named Nicklas Lidström defenceman in All Star Team. Results: Kazakhstan 7-2, Russia, 0-5, Latvia, 6-1, USA 2-1, Slovakia 0-3, Switzerland 6-2, Czech Republic 7-3, Finland 3-2. 2006 in Torino in Italy, women In women´s tournament Sweden won the Olympic Games Silver medal. Highlights of the tournament: The dramatic semi final game against USA which went to both Overtime and penalty shots. USA took a lead with 2-0 but two goals by Maria Rooth tied the game. After Overtime the penalty shooting started. Kim Martin was outstanding and six shoots was treated brilliant by her. Sweden´s 15 year old Pernilla Winberg scored the game winning penalty shot. Maria Rooth also scored and confirmed the Swedish victory. It was the firs time ever Sweden won against USA and for the first time it resulted in a final game in World Championship or Olympic Games without USA. In the final Canada won against Sweden with 4-1. The Olympic Games directorate named Kim Martin best goalkeeper in the tournament. Media named Kim Martin goalkeeper and Maria Rooth forward in All Star Team. Results: Russia 3-1, Italy 11-0, Canada 1-8, USA 3-2, Canada 1-4. 2002 in Salt Lake City and Provo in USA, men Team Sweden started the tournament very, very well and had three big wins in the first round, Canada 5-2, Czech Republic 2-1 and Germany 7-1. Then came the quarter final… I the first round Sweden earned most points of all team and had the goal difference 14-4. Therefore Team Sweden got the weakest team, Belarus, in the quarter final. Belarus faced three loosing games in the first round and the goal difference 6-22. perioden. Lagkaptenen Mats Sundin är kung på isen och smäller in två mål på Sweden had 1-0, 2-2 and 3-3 but lost the game 3-4. It was a disaster for Sweden, the worst loss ever in Swedish hockey history. This game when Belarus knocked out Sweden might be the most sensational result ever in the Olympic Games history. Results mens team: Canada 5-2, Czech Republic 2-1, Germany 7-1, Belarus 4-3. 2002 in Salt Lake City and Provo in USA, women National women´s team wins the Bronze Medal in Olympic Games in Provo, USA, 2002. The women´s team was beaten often earlier during the season and few dared to hope for any medal in Olympic Games. But the players and leaders believed in themselves. Forward Evelina Samuelsson scored both goals when Sweden won against Finland with 2-1 in the Bronze Medal game. Results womens team: Russia 3-2, Kazakhstan 7-0, Canada 0-11, USA 0-4, Finland 2-1. 1998 in Nagano in Japan, men This was supposed to be the dream tournament, the best tournament ever played. NHL made a break and all the best players from the whole world came to Nagano in Japan. The results in this ice hockey tournament was very unexpected because all the top favourite team Canada, Sweden and USA failed. Swedish fans had reasons to dream about the Gold Medal since we had so many good players in our team: Tommy Salo, New York Islanders, Nicklas Lidström, Detroit red Wings, Mats Sundin, Toronto Maple Leafs, Peter Forsberg, Colorado Avalanche, and many others. Team Sweden started with winning over USA. The game quality wasn´t as good as expected but at least we won and important players like Mats Sundin, Daniel Alfredsson and Peter Forsberg got points after goals and assists. After that is was only misery. Canada defeated us and then we won over Belarus. The the scandal came as it shoved that our defenceman Ulf Samuelsson, New York Rangers, had american citizenship. Since it was discovered he had played his last game in Team Sweden. In the quarter Final game we had to meet Finland. They showed us the way out of the tournament with their 2-1 victory. Teemu Selänne scored twice and became a celebrated Team Sweden killer. Peter Forsberg shot Team Sweden´s only goal. It came 12 seconds before the end of the game and it was too late to help us. Team Sweden ended at 5th place in the tournament, the same position as the Swedish womens team got. Results mens team: Sweden-USA 4-2, Sweden-Canada 2-3, Sweden-Belarus 5-2, Sweden-Finland 1-2. 1998 in Nagano in Japan, women 1998 var första gången damerna fick spela I OS. Premiärturneringen var tuff för Sverige. Sverige vann en match och förlorade fyra och blev till slut femma i sin första OS-turnering.