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Ten Olympic medals. That is the goal of the Swedish Olympic Committee (SOC) ahead of this summer’s Olympics in Paris.
– We will try to reverse the gold trend upwards, says squad leader Peter Reinebo.
At the last summer Olympics, 2021 in Tokyo, there were nine Swedish medals. It was one more medal than what the Swedish Olympic Committee (SOC) had as a goal at the time.
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Peter Reinebo states that he thinks that Sweden has a slightly stronger squad now compared to the last summer Olympics, which is the basis for the goal.
During Wednesday, the Olympic squad was also supplemented with seven additional names. The wrestler Johanna Lindborg and the track and field athletes Julia Henriksson, Nora Lindahl, Erik Erlandsson, Samuel Pihlström, Maja Lightning, Caisa-Marie Lindfors.
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Medals in the Summer Olympics:
2000, Sydney: 12 medals (4 gold, 5 silver, 3 bronze)
2004, Athens: 7 medals (4 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze)
2008, Beijing: 5 medals (4 silver, 1 bronze)
2012, London: 8 medals (1 gold, 4 silver, 3 bronze)
2016, Rio de Janeiro: 11 medals (2 gold, 6 silver, 3 bronze)
2021, Tokyo: 9 medals (3 gold, 6 silver)
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