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Sune Almkvist

Sune Almkvist
Personal information
Born4 February 1886
Died8 August 1975
Sport
Sport
ClubIFK Uppsala Bandy
TeamSweden men's national football team

Sune Lison Almkvist (4 February 1886 – 8 August 1975) was an early Swedish sportsman active in bandy, football and tennis, and a sports administrator.[1] For his bandy achievements, he was inducted with the number 1 in the Swedish Bandy Hall of Fame in 2011.[2]

Almkvist was the first major Swedish bandy player and the first who received the award Stor grabb. He played for IFK Uppsala, a club which dominated bandy in Sweden from the first Swedish championship in 1907 until 1920.

Almkvist started his long bandy career at Upsala Gymnasisters HK at the age of 15 in 1901. With the club, he won the 1902 Nordic Games Cup, when they defeated Stockholms HK 2–0. In 1905, Upsala Gymnasisters HK, now renamed to Upsala HK, won the Nordic Games Cup again, this time with Almkvist contributing with 19 goals in a 27–1 win against the Royal Military Academy.[3]

He was also the first president of the Swedish Bandy Association from its founding in 1925 until 1950.[4]

Almkvist also played four matches for the Sweden men's national football team at the 1908 Summer Olympics.[5][6] In tennis, Almkvist won national titles in doubles on two occasions.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Almkvist, Sune". Vem är det: Svensk biografisk handbok (in Swedish). 1933. Retrieved 7 May 2012 – via Project Runeberg.
  2. ^ "Svensk Bandy Hall of Fame". Swedish Bandy Association. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
  3. ^ Tegnér, Torsten (1938). "Almkvist, Sune". Nordisk familjeboks sportlexikon: uppslagsverk för sport, gymnastik och friluftsliv. Band 1 A–Brännboll (in Swedish). Stockholm: Nordisk familjeboks förlag.
  4. ^ "Sune Almkvist". NE.se.
  5. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Sune Almkvist Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
  6. ^ "Sune Almkvist". Olympedia. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
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