Sweden competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. Swedish athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games except for the sparsely attended St. Louis 1904. By prolonging their streak of winning an Olympic medal at every Olympic game since 1908 (and Finland ending theirs by failing to win a medal in Paris), Sweden became the first country in history with a 51 Olympic Games medalling streak.
Sweden had its most successful Summer Olympic Games since Sydney 2000, winning 4 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze medals.
Sarah Sjöström won two Olympic gold medals in swimming, pushing her total to 6 Olympic medals of which 3 are gold, making her Sweden's most successful Olympic swimmer in history. Armand Duplantis became only the third Swedish athlete in history to defend an Olympic title in athletics.
The competitor count includes reserves in handball who were called up and played games. It does not include Andreas Almgren as he did not start any events due to injury, nor does it include Elias Persson who was present as a reserve in swimming but didn't participate in any events.
Swedish track and field athletes achieved the entry standards for Paris 2024, either by passing the direct qualifying mark (or time for track and road races) or by world ranking, in the following events (a maximum of 3 athletes each):[1]
Key
Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
Q = Qualified for the next round
q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
Sweden entered one male and one female rider to compete in the road race events at the Olympic, after secured those quota through the UCI Nation Ranking and 2023 World Championships in Glasgow, Great Britain.[6]
Swedish mountain bikers secured two quota places (one per gender) for the Olympic through the 2023 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Glasgow, Great Britain; and through the release of the final Olympic mountain biking rankings.
Sweden entered a full squad of equestrian riders each to the team dressage, eventing, and jumping competitions through a top-seven finish in dressage and top-five in jumping the 2022 FEI World Championships in Herning, Denmark, and through a top-six finish at the Eventing Worlds on the same year in Pratoni del Vivaro, Italy.[7][8][9]
Sweden entered four golfers into the Olympic tournament. Ludvig Åberg, Alex Norén, Maja Stark, and Linn Grant; all qualified directly for the games in the individual competitions, based on their world ranking performance, on the IGF World Rankings.
Sweden qualified two judokas for the following weight classes at the Games. Marcus Nyman (men's middleweight, 90 kg) and Tara Babulfath (women's extra-lightweight, 48 kg) got qualified via quota based on IJF World Ranking List and continental quota based on Olympic point rankings.
With her 3rd place in women's 48 kg, Tara Babulfath won Sweden's first ever Olympic medal in judo.
Swedish modern pentathlete confirmed one quota place for the Olympic games. Marlena Jawaid secured her spot in the women's event, through the release of the final Olympic ranking.
Athlete
Event
Fencing (épée one touch)
Swimming (200 m freestyle)
Riding (show jumping)
Combined: shooting/running (10 m air pistol)/(3200 m)
Swedish sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2023 Sailing World Championships, the class-associated Worlds, and the continental regattas.
Swedish shooters achieved quota places for the following events based on their results at the 2022 and 2023 ISSF World Championships, 2022, 2023, and 2024 European Championships, 2023 European Games, and 2024 ISSF World Olympic Qualification Tournament.[22]
Swedish swimmers achieved the entry standards in the following events for Paris 2024 (a maximum of two swimmers under the Olympic Qualifying Time (OST) and potentially at the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT)):[23]Isak Eliasson and Robin Hanson were selected for the men's relay events while Sara Junevik, Hanna Rosvall, Sofia Åstedt were selected for the women's relay events. Elias Persson was also selected for the relay events, but did not end up competing.
Sweden entered a full squad of to the men's team competition following the triumph of winning the 2023 European Team Championships in Malmö.[24][25] Sweden also qualified a women's team through the ITTF World Rankings; and mixed doubles team through the 2024 ITTF World Qualification Tournament in Havirov, Czech Republic.
Sweden qualified one wrestlers for each of the following classes into the Olympic competition. Jonna Malmgren qualified for the games by virtue of top five results through the 2023 World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia.[26]Johanna Lindborg received a quota due to reallocations of Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN).
VB (ranking points: 5–0 or 0–5) – Victory by injury (VF for forfeit, VA for withdrawal or disqualification)
PP (ranking points: 3–1 or 1–3) – Decision by points – the loser with technical points.
PO (ranking points: 3–0 or 0–3) – Decision by points – the loser without technical points.
ST (ranking points: 4–0 or 0–4) – Great superiority – the loser without technical points and a margin of victory of at least 8 (Greco-Roman) or 10 (freestyle) points.
SP (ranking points: 4–1 or 1–4) – Technical superiority – the loser with technical points and a margin of victory of at least 8 (Greco-Roman) or 10 (freestyle) points.