Sweden at the 1994 Winter Olympics

Sweden competed at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway.

Medalists

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

Alpine skiing

Men

Men's combined

Women

Women's combined

Biathlon

Men

Men's 4 ÃÂ 7.5 km relay

Women

Women's 4 ÃÂ 7.5 km relay

1 A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

2 One minute added per missed target.

Bobsleigh

Cross-country skiing

Men

1 Starting delay based on 10 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Men's 4 ÃÂ 10 km relay

Women

2 Starting delay based on 5 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Women's 4 ÃÂ 5 km relay

Freestyle skiing

Men

Women

Ice hockey

Summary

An exciting Gold medal game saw Sweden force overtime by tying the score with less than two minutes to go. After a scoreless overtime, the winner was determined by a shootout. The first five rounds saw two players for each side make their penalty shots (Nedved and Kariya for Canada and Forsberg and Svennson for Sweden). In the sixth round, both Nedved and Svensson missed their shots. Forsberg then scored on Canadian goaltender Hirsch to start the seventh round. Kariya took Canada's seventh round shot and was stopped by Swedish goaltender SaloÃ¢ÂÂgiving the Swedes the gold medal.

In 1995, the Swedish postal service memorialized Forsberg's game winning shootout goal. Because Hirsch would not grant permission for his likeness to be used on the stamp he was 'disguised' by means of changing the color of his sweater and his player number.

Group B

Twelve participating teams were placed in the two groups. After playing a round-robin, the top four teams in each group advanced to the Medal Round while the last two teams competed in the consolation round for the 9th to 12th places.