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Sweden at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Sweden competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, which took place from 24 August to 5 September 2021. This was their sixteenth consecutive appearance at the Summer Paralympics since 1960. The Swedish team consisted of 26 athletes in 11 sports.

Medalists

Competitors

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

Archery

Sweden collected one quota place at the 2019 Para Archery World Championships held in Den Bosch, Netherlands.

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Athletics

Men's field

Per Jonsson was qualified and selected to compete in men's long jump T12, but was injured shortly before the games and was replaced by Olof Ryberg.

Women's field

Boccia

Canoeing

Cycling

Sweden is scheduled to compete in cycling (male and female road events) at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.

Road

Track

Equestrian

Sweden sent two athletes, Louise Etzner Jakobsson and Lena Malmström.

Judo

Shooting

Sweden qualified for the 2020 Summer Paralympics after their results at the 2018 World Shooting Para Sport Championships and the 2019 World Shooting Para Sport World Cup.

The athletes that qualified for the 2020 Summer Paralympics are Bang Yu-jeong, Håkan Gustafsson, Philip Jönsson, Joackim Norberg and Anna Normann.

<small>Legend: Q=Qualified; PR=Paralympic record</small>

Swimming

Two Swedish swimmer has successfully entered the paralympic slot after breaking the MQS.

<small>Legend: Q=Qualified; ER=European record; NR=National record</small>

Table tennis

Sweden entered four athletes into the table tennis competition at the games. Anna-Carin Ahlquist & Ingela Lundbäck qualified from 2019 ITTF European Para Championships which was held in Helsingborg, Sweden and Alexander Öhgren & Emil Andersson via World Ranking allocation.

Men

Alexander Öhgren developed cold symptoms. While he tested negative for COVID-19 he was nevertheless forced to withdraw from the games.

Women

Wheelchair tennis

Sweden qualified one players entries for wheelchair tennis. Stefan Olsson qualified by the world rankings.

See also

References

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