Tre Kronor completes the Olympic and World Championship double
Guinness records Sweden as the first country to win Olympic and World Championship ice-hockey titles in the same year, completed in Riga on 21 May 2006.
Guinness World Records states that Sweden completed the ice-hockey Olympic and World Championship double on 21 May 2006, after winning the world championship in Riga following the Turin Olympic title.
SOK records Turin 2006 as Sweden’s strongest Winter Olympic medal performance at that time. Together the sources make this a strong sports-national-identity event.