Olof ''Arne'' Hegerfors (born 4 July 1942) is a

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sports journalist and television presenter. He is mostly known as a sports commentator at SVT and Canal Plus between 1969 until 2011. He was awarded the Stora Journalistpriset (The great journalist award) in 1992. Hegerfors had a promising athletic career in football and had a contract offer from a French football club, OGC Nice. But after a serious knee injury he could not play anymore and moved on to a journalistic career. When Lars-Gunnar Björklund started a sports department at SVT (known as Sveriges Radio-TV until 1979) in Gothenburg and recruited Hegerfors. In 2000 Hegerfors appeared in

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's music video for his song "Mera mål", where he acted as himself. He has also presented entertainments shows for SVT, like "Kryzz" and " Det kommer mera". He won the Swedish television

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s Honour Award in 2008. Hegerfors had made several memorable commentator works in ice hockey and football matches and was SVT's correspondent at the

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in 1985 when 39 people died and 376 were injured during a

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final between

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and Juventus. He also commentated the basketball final between the

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and the

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at the 1972 Olympic Games in which the Soviet Union won with 50–49 in a discussed judge decision in the last seconds. Hegerfors is also known for making entertaining quips as a commentator. In 2011, Hegerfors ended his working career. Hegerfors has also published one book called ''Ralf: en gör så gôtt en kan!''.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hegerfors, Arne Swedish sports journalists 1942 births Living people People from Gothenburg Swedish sports broadcasters Swedish television hosts