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Ekström
Ekström is a surname of Swedish origin. The name commonly appears as Ekström in Sweden and Finland and as Ekstrom in English-speaking countries. Notable people with the surname include: *Anders Ekström (born 1981), Swedish sailor *Anne-Marie Ekström (born 1947), Swedish politician * Bernhard Ekström (1890–1956), Swedish politician * Clarence Ekstrom (1902–1986), United States Navy admiral * Folke Ekström, Swedish chess player * Hans Ekström (born 1958), Swedish politician * Jan Ekström, Swedish footballer * Jan Ekström (author), Swedish author and adman * Johnny Ekström, Swedish footballer * Martin Eugen Ekström (1887–1954), Swedish military adventurer *Mary Ekstrom, American politician * Mattias Ekström, Swedish racing driver * Mike Ekstrom, American baseball player *Per Ekström, Swedish landscape painter * Peter Ekström, Swedish sprint canoeist *Pirkko Irmeli Ekström, Finnish chess master * Roland Ekström (born 1956), Swedish and Swiss chess master *Peggy Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mattias Ekström
Mattias Ekström (born 14 July 1978 in Falun, Sweden) is a racing driver from Sweden. He competed in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters for Audi from 2001 until his retirement in 2018, and has been competing in the FIA World Rallycross Championship, also for Audi, since its inception in 2014. He is a FIA World Rallycross Champion, a two-time DTM champion and a three-time winner of the Race of Champions. Career Ekström debuted in karting in 1993. The next years he competed at the Renault 5 Turbo Cup, winning the championship in 1996. The driver progressed to the Swedish Touring Car Championship in 1997, finishing runner-up with a Volvo 850. In 1998 he drove a Ford Mondeo, claiming four podiums. Ekström won the 1999 championship driving an Audi A4 quattro. He switched rides again in 2000, finishing third with a factory Volvo S40. In 2001, Ekström joined the Abt Junior team to compete at the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters. Driving Audi TT, he finished 8th in his debut season, third ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Ekström
Johnny Douglas Ekström (born 5 March 1965) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a forward and a winger. He played professionally in Italy, Germany, France, and Spain but is best remembered for his time in Sweden with IFK Göteborg with which he was the 1986 Allsvenskan top scorer and won three Swedish football champions, Swedish Championships. A full international between 1986 and 1995, he won 47 Cap (sport), caps for the Sweden national football team, Sweden national team and represented his country at the 1990 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 1992. Club career IFK Göteborg A product of the IFK Göteborg Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Göteborg (officially IFK Göteborg Fotboll), commonly known as IFK Göteborg, IFK (especially locally) or simply Göteborg, is a Swedish professional football club based in Gothenburg. Founded in 1904, it is the ... youth academy, Ekström was promoted to the first team in 1983 before making his Allsvenskan debut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Per Ekström
Per Ekström, also Pehr or Peter (23 February 1844 – 21 January 1935) was a Swedish landscape painter, known for his atmospheric scenes with sunsets, in barren or deserted places. Biography Ekström was born in the small village Segerstad in the south easts part of the island Öland in Sweden. His father was a house painter. He took drawing lessons as a child, then studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts from 1865 to 1872, but was influenced by French painting rather than the prevailing Düsseldorf School. In 1876, thanks to the support of King Oscar II, he was able to go to Paris, where he lived until 1890. There, he came under the influence of the Barbizon School and Camille Corot. His first exhibit at the Salon was in 1878 and he won a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle (1889). After returning to Sweden, he lived in Öland, then Stockholm. On the advice of art collector and merchant Pontus Fürstenberg who was a major patron of the arts, he settled in Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland Ekström
Roland Ekström (born 22 May 1956) is a Swedish and Swiss chess player, International Master (1982), four time Swiss Chess Championship winner (1988, 1989, 2001, 2008). Chess career In 1972, Roland Ekström won Swedish Junior Chess Championship in Skellefteå. In 1975–1979 he participated in the individual finals of the Swedish Chess Championship four times, achieving his greatest success in 1975 in Gothenburg where he won silver medal. From the beginning of the 1980s, he started playing mainly in chess tournaments organized in Switzerland. Roland Ekström has four individual gold medals in the Swiss Chess Championships, which he won in 1988, 1999, 2001 and 2008. Roland Ekström twice took part in World Chess Championship Zonal tournaments (1998 and 2000), but did not achieve significant results. His successes in international chess tournaments include: shared 1st place in Banja Luka (1987, together with Krunoslav Hulak) and shared 1st place in Bad Wiessee (2000, tog ... [...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 1945/4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Ekström
Hans Reinhold Ekström (born 1958) is a Swedish politician, teacher and member of the Riksdag The Riksdag (, ; also sv, riksdagen or ''Sveriges riksdag'' ) is the legislature and the supreme decision-making body of Sweden. Since 1971, the Riksdag has been a unicameral legislature with 349 members (), elected proportionally and se ..., the national legislature. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he has represented Södermanland County since October 2010. Ekström is the son of industrial official Carl-Axel Ekström and museum expert Gun Ekström (née Holmgren). He was educated in Eskilstuna and has a teaching degree. He was teacher in Eskilstuna Municipality from 1982 to 1992. He was a member of the municipal council in Eskilstuna Municipality from 1988 to 2010. He has been a member of the county administrative board in Södermanland County since 1995. References 1958 births Living people Members of the Riksdag 2010–2014 Members of the Riksda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Ekström (author)
''Jan'' Olof Ekström (2 November 1923 in Falun, Sweden – 17 August 2013) was a Swedish author and adman. Biography Jan Ekström has lived in Gislaved but graduated in Växjö. He studied national economy, Slavic languages, English and statistics in Lund, thereafter he studied at the Handelshögskolan The Stockholm School of Economics (SSE; sv, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, HHS) is a private university, private business school located in city district Vasastan, Stockholm, Vasastaden in the central part of Stockholm, Sweden. SSE offers B ... in Stockholm. He was in the beginning of the 80's co-owner of the ad firm "Ekström & Lindmark". He has also lived in Paris, France. As an author Jan Ekström debuted 1961 with "Döden fyller år" ''(The Death's Birthday)'' and the next year he introduced his problem-solver, the red haired and opera loving detective Bertil Durell. For "Träfracken" ''(The wood tuxedo)'' he got Expressens Sherlock-award. Jan Ekström is most f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pirkko Irmeli Ekström
Pirkko Irmeli Ekström (née Pihlajamäki; 16 November 1945 – 17 August 2011) was a Finnish chess player and a Finnish Women Chess Championship medalist (1976, 1982, 1984). Biography From the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, Pirkko Irmeli Ekström was one of Finland's leading chess players. In Finnish Chess Championships she has won silver (1982) and two bronze (1976, 1984) medals. In 1985, in Eksjö Pirkko Irmeli Ekström participated in Women's World Chess Championship Zonal tournament. Pirkko Irmeli Ekström played for Finland in the Women's Chess Olympiads: * In 1976, at second board in the 7th Chess Olympiad (women) in Haifa (+1, =3, -5), * In 1978, at third board in the 8th Chess Olympiad (women) in Buenos Aires (+4, =4, -3), * In 1980, at first reserve board in the 9th Chess Olympiad (women) in Valletta (+2, =4, -4), * In 1982, at third board in the 10th Chess Olympiad (women) in Lucerne (+5, =2, -3), * In 1984, at first reserve board in the 26th Chess Olympiad (women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Ekström
Jan Ekström (born 11 October 1937) is a Swedish former footballer who played as a midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ekstrom, Jan Men's association football midfielders Swedish men's footballers Sweden men's international footballers Allsvenskan players Malmö FF players 1937 births Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anders Ekström
Anders Ekström (born 16 January 1981) is a Swedish sailor who has participated in two Summer Olympics. He and Fredrik Lööf Max Emil Fredrik Lööf (born 13 December 1969 in Kristinehamn, Sweden) is a Swedish professional sailor who has participated in six Summer Olympics, winning one gold and two bronze medals. He won the gold medal in Star with Max Salminen at the ... sailed together in the Star class, winning the Star world championship, the Star European championship, finishing 14th at Athens in 2004, and winning the bronze medal at Beijing in 2008. Achievements References External linksAthlete bio at 2008 Olympics site 1981 births Olympic sailors of Sweden Swedish male sailors (sport) Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Star Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Star Living people Olympic medalists in sailing Star class world champions Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics World champions in saili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernhard Ekström
Bernhard Ekström (30 March 1890 – 20 June 1956) was a Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ... politician. He was a member of the Centre Party. He was a member of the Parliament of Sweden (upper chamber) from 1948. Members of the Riksdag from the Centre Party (Sweden) 1890 births 1952 deaths Members of the Första kammaren People from Lessebo Municipality {{Sweden-Centre-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne-Marie Ekström
Anne-Marie Ekström (born 1947) is a Swedish Liberal People's Party politician. She was a member of the Riksdag from 2002 to 2006. External linksAnne-Marie Ekströmat the Riksdag The Riksdag (, ; also sv, riksdagen or ''Sveriges riksdag'' ) is the legislature and the supreme decision-making body of Sweden. Since 1971, the Riksdag has been a unicameral legislature with 349 members (), elected proportionally and se ... website 1947 births Living people Members of the Riksdag from the Liberals (Sweden) Women members of the Riksdag Members of the Riksdag 2002–2006 21st-century Swedish women politicians Date of birth missing (living people) {{Sweden-LiberalPeople-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
