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2000 In Sweden
The following lists events that happened during 2000 in Sweden. Incumbents * Monarch – Carl XVI Gustaf * Prime Minister – Göran Persson Events January * January 1 - The Church of Sweden is separated from the Swedish State. Popular culture Film * 13 May – ''Faithless'', directed by Liv Ullmann, released. * 4 August – '' Sleepwalker'' released * 25 August – ''Together'' released in Sweden * 22 December – ''Jalla! Jalla!'', comedy film directed by Josef Fares Literature * ''The Return of the Dancing Master'', crime novel by Henning Mankell * ''Missing'', crime fiction novel by Karin Alvtegen Sports * 10 December – The 2000 European Cross Country Championships were held in Malmö Births * 7 April – Julia Kedhammar, singer Deaths * 8 January – Henry Eriksson, athlete (born 1920). * 13 January – John Ljunggren, athlete (born 1919). * 25 January – Folke Ekström, chess player (born 1906) * 25 February – Doris Lö ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000
File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from STS-97; The 2000 Summer Olympics are held in Sydney; A U.S. Air Force MH-53 flies over the 2000 Mozambique flood; An Air France Concorde similar to the one that crashed after takeoff from Charles de Gaulle Airport; The USS Cole is bombed by Al-Qaeda; Times Square after the ball drop that heralded the New Millennium., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Bush v. Gore rect 200 0 400 200 Millennium Summit rect 400 0 600 200 Expedition 1 rect 0 200 300 400 Millennium celebrations rect 300 200 600 400 2000 Summer Olympics rect 0 400 200 600 USS Cole bombing rect 200 400 400 600 Air France Flight 4590 rect 400 400 600 600 2000 Mozambique flood 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 European Cross Country Championships
The 7th European Cross Country Championships were held at Malmö in Sweden on 10 December 2000. Paulo Guerra took his fourth title in the men's competition and Katalin Szentgyörgyi won the women's race. Results Men individual 9.71 km Men teams Women individual 4.95 km Women teams Junior men individual 6.14 km Junior men teams Junior women individual 3.76 km Junior women teams References External links Database containing all results between 1994–2007 {{coord, 55, 35, 57, N, 13, 04, 01, E, region:SE-M_type:event_source:kolossus-dewiki, display=title European Cross Country Championships The European Cross Country Championships is an annual international cross country running competition. Organised by the European Athletic Association, it is the area championships for the region and is held in December each year. The championships ... European Cross Country Championships 2000 in Swedish sport International athletics competitions ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inga Gill
Inga Gill (2 May 1925 – 18 October 2000) was a Swedish film actress. She was born in Stockholm and died there in 2000, aged 75, following a thrombosis. Selected filmography * ''Affairs of a Model'' (1946) - Waitress at Gyldene Tunnan (uncredited) * ''Woman Without a Face'' (1947) - Signe (uncredited) * ''Lars Hård'' (1948) - Maid (uncredited) * ''Thirst'' (1949) - Lady at Hotel (uncredited) * ''Miss Julie'' (1951) - Viola * ''We Three Debutantes'' (1953) - Dancer * '' Time of Desire'' (1954) - Ella * ''The Vicious Breed'' (1954) - Mammie * ''Mord, lilla vän'' (1955) - Mrs. Nygren * ''Dreams'' (1955) - Shop assistant at bakery (uncredited) * ''Friarannonsen'' (1955) - Stina * ''Girls Without Rooms'' (1956) - Agneta * '' Seventh Heaven'' (1956) - Fröken Jonasson, sångtrion Varhulta Sisters * ''Sju vackra flickor'' (1956) - Mr. Rosander's secretary * ''Lille Fridolf och jag'' (1956) - Maggan * ''The Seventh Seal'' (1957) - Lisa, blacksmith's wife * ''Johan på Snippen tar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knut Holmqvist
Knut Holmqvist (15 July 1918 – 28 August 2000) was a Swedish sport shooter Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airguns, in forms such as .... He competed in trap shooting at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics and finished in second and seventh place, respectively. He won a team gold and an individual bronze medal at the 1952 World Championships. References 1918 births 2000 deaths Swedish male sport shooters Shooters at the 1952 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1956 Summer Olympics Olympic shooters of Sweden Olympic silver medalists for Sweden Olympic medalists in shooting Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics 20th-century Swedish people 21st-century Swedish people {{Sweden-Olympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Örjan Blomquist
Örjan Blomquist (23 August 1957 – 30 July 2000) was a Swedish cross-country skier, specialised at long-distance races during the 1980s. Competing for IFK Lidingö at club level, he shared the victory at Vasaloppet 1988 together with his brother Anders Blomquist. Örjan Blomquist also won Worldloppet The Worldloppet Ski Federation is a federation of long distance cross-country skiing events whose aim is to promote cross-country skiing through ski races. The federation was founded on 10 June 1978 in Uppsala, Sweden. Locations Only one and t ... in 1985. After the career, he worked as an SVT commentator during skiing events. Outside skiing, he was an economist. Örjan Blomquist died in the year 2000 due to cancer. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Blomquist, Orjan 1957 births 2000 deaths Swedish male cross-country skiers Vasaloppet winners IFK Lidingö skiers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Åke Hodell
Åke Hodell (April 30, 1919 – July 29, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden) was a Swedish fighter pilot, poet, author, text-sound composer, and artist. Daughter Laila Hodell (author) He was the son of author Björn Hodell and brother of actor Ulla Hodell. Hodell was trained as a fighter pilot, but after a crash during practice July 17, 1941, he had to spend the next few years in hospital. This became a turning point, and he became a dedicated antimilitarist. Lying in hospital he got to know author Gunnar Ekelöf and Hodell made his debut with Flyende Pilot in 1953. That same spring, Hodell and Ekelöf travelled to Rome. In his books, Hodell experimented with what he calls ''elektronismer'', while he is on stage and in radio in the early 60s worked with text-sound composition. During this period he was also active at ''Pistolteatern'' in Stockholm. He also created the book publisher Kerberos. One of his visual artworks, the piece "220 Volt Buddha", was used as the album cover of Swedish h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nils Poppe
Nils Poppe (31 May 1908 – 28 June 2000) was a Swedish actor, comedian, director, screenwriter and theatre manager. He is internationally most famous for his part in Ingmar Bergman's ''The Seventh Seal'', but in Sweden he was much loved and participated in over 50 films on cinema and TV. Biography Background Poppe's mother was unmarried and forced to place him with a Danish foster mother in Malmö, Sweden, who put him on a diet of bread dipped in beer. After two years he was rescued from her by Anders and Amanda Jönsson at Möllevången in Malmö, who became his foster parents. His theatrical dreams began to blossom early, and at school he showed off his comic talent. On 1 August 1926, Poppe enlisted in the navy and trained as a torpedoman at the 1st Professional Company in Karlskrona as No. 427 Jönsson. However, the four-year enlistment period had to be prematurely terminated on 16 March 1928, likely due to a heart condition, which had shortly before resulted in 30 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egon Jönsson
Egon Jönsson (8 October 1921 – 19 March 2000) was a Swedish footballer who played as a midfielder for Malmö FF and the Sweden national team. Club career Nicknamed "Todde den Hemlige," Jönsson played 405 matches for Malmö FF, winning four Allsvenskan titles. He played in 200 Allsvenskan games for Malmö and scored 99 goals. International career He was part of the Sweden squads that competed at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics, as well as the 1950 FIFA World Cup, winning one gold medal and two bronze medals. He won a total of 22 caps, scoring 9 goals. Coaching career After his active career he was a youth coach and part of the coaching staff for Malmö FF during the European Cup final against Nottingham Forest in 1979. Honours Malmö FF * Allsvenskan: 1943–44, 1948–49, 1949–50, 1950–51 Sweden * FIFA World Cup third place: 1950 * Summer Olympics: 1948 * Summer Olympics third place: 1952 * Nordic Football Championship The Nordic Football Champ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doris Löve
Doris Benta Maria Löve, ''née'' Wahlén (born 2 January 1918 in Kristianstad – deceased 25 February 2000 in San Jose, California) was a Swedish systematic botanist, particularly active in the Arctic. Biography Doris Löve was born in Kristianstad, Sweden. She studied botany at Lund University from 1937. She married her fellow student and colleague, the Icelander Áskell Löve. She received her PhD in botany in 1944. She focused her doctorate on the sexuality of ''Melandrium''. After their studies, the couple moved to Iceland. They moved to Winnipeg in 1951, to Montreal in 1955, and to Boulder in 1965. At universities where Áskell Löve taught, Doris Löve could not hold a faculty position at the same time as her husband. They finally moved to San Jose, California, in 1974. Together, Áskell and Doris Löve undertook numerous investigations of the chromosome numbers of plants and their use in plant systematics. They published numerous accounts in this field, and are consid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Folke Ekström
Nils Johan Folke Ekström (12 October 1906, in Lund – 25 January 2000, in Saltsjobaden) was a Swedish International Master (IM) of chess and of correspondence chess (IMC). He won the Swedish Championships in 1947 and 1948; Swedish Correspondence Championships in 1941, 1964, and 1971; and the European Correspondence Championship V, 1967–1971. Tournaments and matches Ekström was active in high-level national Swedish and international chess during a short period of just over five years in the 1940s, with some very impressive successes. He won at Stockholm 1942, tied with Stig Lundholm, ahead of both Gösta Stoltz and Erik Lundin, both of whom became Grandmasters later on. Then at Stockholm 1943/44, he won ahead of Lundholm. Ekström lost a 1944 match to the world-class grandmaster Paul Keres by 5–1, following Keres' 'hors concours' appearance at the 1944 Swedish Championship, where he had placed second. Ekström then finished second himself at the strong Hastings 1945 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ljunggren
John Arthur Ljunggren (9 September 1919 – 13 January 2000) was a Swedish race walker. He competed in the 50 kilometer event at the 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics and finished in first, ninth, third, second and 16th place, respectively. At the European Championships The European Championships is a multi-sport tournament which brings together the existing European Championships of some of the continent's leading sports every four years. The inaugural edition in 2018 was staged by the host cities of Berlin, ... he won a gold medal in 1946, a silver medal in 1950, and finished fourth in 1954 and fifth in 1962.John Ljunggren . Sports Reference Swedish Olympic Committee [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Eriksson
Knut Henry "Krylbo" Eriksson (23 January 1920 – 8 January 2000) was a Swedish middle-distance runner who specialized in the 1500 m event. In 1946 he finished second behind Lennart Strand, both at the national and European Championships. On 15 July 1947, at the national championships at Malmö, Eriksson and Strand had a very close 1500 m race. Strand won, equaling the world record at 3:43.0, and Eriksson finished second, setting his all-time personal best at 3:44.4. Eriksson beat Strand at the 1948 Swedish Championships and at the 1948 Summer Olympics. He retired the same year and returned to his work as a fireman. Eriksson was one of the three Olympic Flame lighters of the 1956 Summer Olympics equestrian The word equestrian is a reference to equestrianism, or horseback riding, derived from Latin ' and ', "horse". Horseback riding (or Riding in British English) Examples of this are: * Equestrian sports *Equestrian order, one of the upper classes i ... events at Stockholm. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
