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Sweden v USA
1981 | Sweden won series 2-1 | ||||
12.05 : Norrkoping | Sweden | 53 | USA | 54 | |
13.05 : Stockholm | Sweden | 60 | USA | 48 | |
14.05 : Kumla (Att: 3,000) | Sweden | 58 | USA | 49 |
Sweden | Total | USA | Total | ||||||||
Jan Andersson | 17 | 16 | 17 | 50 | Bruce Penhall | 14 | 16 | 13 | 43 | ||
Anders Michanek | 11 | 18 | 12 | 41 | Bobby Schwartz | 16 | 9 | 15 | 40 | ||
Tommy Nilsson | 9 | 11 | 8 | 28 | Kelly Moran | 11 | 8 | 11 | 30 | ||
Richard Hellsen | 9 | 7 | 7 | 23 | Shawn Moran | 0 | 6 | 7 | 13 | ||
Hasse Danielsson | 2 | 5 | 8 | 15 | Larry Kosta | 1 | 8 | 1 | 10 | ||
Bernt Persson- | - | - | 5 | 5 | Denny Pyeatt | 5 | 1 | 2 | 8 | ||
Tommy Johansson | 4 | - | - | 4 | Brad Oxley | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | ||
Borje Klingberg | - | 2 | - | 2 | |||||||
Bo Wirebrand | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | |||||||
Ake Fridell | - | - | 1 | 1 |
1982 | USA won series 2-1 | ||||
11.05 : Norrkoping (Att: 3,672) | Sweden | 49 | USA | 59 | |
12.05 : Stockholm (Gubbängen) | Sweden | 61 | USA | 47 | |
13.05 : Kumla (Att: 2,500) | Sweden | 47 | USA | 61 |
Sweden | Total | USA | Total | ||||||||
Jan Andersson | 15 | 16 | 15 | 46 | Bruce Penhall | 16 | 13 | 15 | 44 | ||
Tommy Nilsson | 8 | 16 | 15 | 39 | Kelly Moran | 12 | 9 | 13 | 34 | ||
Anders Michanek | 14 | 8 | 6 | 28 | Ron Preston | 9 | 15 | 7 | 31 | ||
Hans Danielsson | 1 | 10 | 8 | 19 | Bobby Schwartz | 12 | 4 | 10 | 26 | ||
Bjorn Andersson | 6 | 6 | 1 | 13 | Steve Gresham | 4 | 3 | 9 | 16 | ||
Richard Hellsen | 5 | 5 | 1 | 11 | Lance King | 6 | 3 | 7 | 16 | ||
Anders Eriksson | 0 | - | 1 | 1 | Brad Oxley | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
1st Test at Norkopping 11th May
Ht 1: Penhall, J Andersson, King, B Andersson 60.0 (track record) 2-4 2-4 Ht 2: Schwartz, Preston, Hellsen, Nilsson 61.3 1-5 3-9 Ht 3: Moran, Michanek, Gresham, Danielsson 61.9 2-4 5-13 Ht 4: Penhall, King, Hellsen, Nilsson 60.4 1-5 6-18 Ht 5: Schwartz, Michanek, Danielsson, Preston (f exc) 61.5 3-3 9-21 Ht 6: J Andersson, Moran, B Andersson, Gresham 61.0 4-2 13-23 Ht 7: Penhall, Michanek, King, Eriksson 60.4 2-4 15-27 Ht 8: B Andersson, J Andersson, Preston, Schwartz 61.2 5-1 20-28 Ht 9: Moran, Nilsson, Hellsen, Oxley 61.2 3-3 23-31 Ht 10: J Andersson, B Andersson, Penhall, King (ef) 61.4 5-1 28-32 Ht 11: Preston, Schwartz, Nilsson, Hellsen 61.2 1-5 29-37 Ht 12: Michanek, Gresham, Moran, Eriksson 61.1 3-3 32-40 Ht 13: Schwartz, J Andersson, Preston, B Andersson 61.1 2-4 34-44 Ht 14: Nilsson, Hellsen, Moran, Gresham 61.0 5-1 39-45 Ht 15: Penhall, Michanek, King, Danielsson 62.3 2-4 41-49 Ht 16: J Andersson, Moran, Gresham, B Andersson 61.9 3-3 44-52 Ht 17: Penhall, Nilsson, King, Hellsen 61.0 2-4 46-56 Ht 18: Michanek, Preston, Schwartz, Danielsson 61.0 3-3 49-59 |
2nd Test at Stockholm 12th May
Ht 1: J Andersson, King, Penhall, B Andersson 69.8 3-3 3-3 Ht 2: Nilsson, Preston, Schwartz, Hellsen 69.3 3-3 6-6 Ht 3: Moran, Danielsson, Gresham, Michanek 70.5 2-4 8-10 Ht 4: Penhall, Nilsson, King, Hellsen 69.8 2-4 10-14 Ht 5: Preston, Danielsson, Michanek, Schwartz 70.3 3-3 13-17 Ht 6: B Andersson, J Andersson, Moran, Gresham 70.7 5-1 18-18 Ht 7: Penhall, Danielsson, Michanek, King 69.8 3-3 21-21 Ht 8: Preston, J Andersson, B Andersson, Schwartz 70.9 3-3 24-24 Ht 9: Nilsson, Hellsen, Moran, Gresham 70.7 5-1 29-25 Ht 10: J Andersson, Penhall, B Andersson, King 71.3 4-2 33-27 Ht 11: Preston, Nilsson, Hellsen, Schwartz 71.0 3-3 36-30 Ht 12: Danielsson, Moran, Michanek, Oxley 70.6 4-2 40-32 Ht 13: Nilsson, Penhall, Hellsen, King 71.4 4-2 44-34 Ht 14: Preston, Michanek, Schwartz, Danielsson 71.1 2-4 46-38 Ht 15: J Andersson, Moran, B Andersson, Oxley 71.0 4-2 50-40 Ht 16: Michanek, Penhall, Danielsson, King 71.5 4-2 54-42 Ht 17: J Andersson, Schwartz, Preston, B Andersson 71.0 3-3 57-45 Ht 18: Nilsson, Gresham, Hellsen, Moran 71.4 4-2 61-47 |
3rd Test at Kumla 13th May
Ht 1: Penhall, J Andersson, King, B Andersson 69.0 (track record) 2-4 2-4 Ht 2: Nilsson, Schwartz, Hellsen, Preston 69.4 4-2 6-6 Ht 3: Gresham, Moran, Michanek, Danielsson 69.5 1-5 7-11 Ht 4: Penhall, Nilsson, King, Hellsen 69.8 2-4 9-15 Ht 5: Preston, Schwartz, Danielsson, Michanek 71.2 1-5 10-20 Ht 6: J Andersson, Moran, Gresham, B Andersson 70.0 3-3 13-23 Ht 7: Michanek, King, Penhall, Danielsson 71.1 3-3 16-26 Ht 8: J Andersson, Preston, B Andersson, Schwartz 70.6 4-2 20-28 Ht 9: Nilsson, Gresham, Moran, Hellsen 71.1 3-3 23-31 Ht 10: Penhall, J Andersson, King, B Andersson 69.1 2-4 25-35 Ht 11: Nilsson, Schwartz, Preston, Eriksson 70.4 3-3 28-38 Ht 12: Danielsson, Moran, Gresham, Michanek 69.5 3-3 31-41 Ht 13: Penhall, Nilsson, King, Hellsen 70.2 2-4 33-45 Ht 14: Schwartz, Michanek, Danielsson, Preston 71.4 3-3 36-48 Ht 15: Moran, J Andersson, Gresham, B Andersson 70.6 2-4 38-52 Ht 16: Danielsson, Penhall, King, Michanek 71.1 3-3 41-55 Ht 17: J Andersson, Schwartz, B Andersson, Oxley 71.6 4-2 45-57 Ht 18: Moran, Nilsson, Gresham, Eriksson 71.1 2-4 47-61 |
1983 | USA won series 2-0 | ||||
17.05 : Norrkoping | Sweden | 36 | USA | 72 | |
18.05 : Stockholm | Sweden | 37 | USA | 71 | |
Another match in this series, at Kumla, was abandoned after heat 6 with the score Sweden 13 USA 23 |
Sweden | Total | USA | Total | |||||||
Jan Andersson | 15 | 14 | 29 | Shawn Moran | 17 | 17 | 34 | |||
Bjorn Andersson | 9 | - | 9 | Dennis Sigalos | 15 | 17 | 32 | |||
Tommy Nilsson | - | 9 | 9 | John Cook | 11 | 15 | 26 | |||
Hans Danielsson | - | 7 | 7 | Bobby Schwartz | 13 | 11 | 24 | |||
Anders Eriksson | 4 | 2 | 6 | Lance King | 10 | 9 | 19 | |||
Lillebror Johansson | 2 | 3 | 5 | Steve Gresham | 6 | 2 | 8 | |||
Pierre Brannefors | 2 | 2 | 4 | Rick Miller | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Uno Johansson | 4 | - | 4 | |||||||
Lennart Bengtsson | 0 | - | 0 |
Contributors : Vic Butcher, David Austin |
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