At Lugnet in Falun, Calle Halfvarsson succeeded with a strong prologue - and it went faster than he himself knew during the race.

- I did not really know how I was.

I thought I had ridden a bit half but then I was told that I was second up there on the hill, then I lost that position a bit, says Halfvarsson after the race.

- But it was good.

You are not really used to it, it feels like the lungs are going to jump out.

The other Swedish men who went on were Truls Gisselman, Anton Persson, Johan Häggström, Oskar Svensson and Emil Danielsson.