Bengt Edvin Axel Grive, né ''Gustafsson'' (21 March 1921 – 17 September 2003) was a
Swedish
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sports commentator, journalist and author.
Career
Grive was born in
Stockholm
Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...
, Sweden, the son of Edvin Gustafsson and Elsa (née Lindström).
Grive worked as a firefighter in Stockholm during a few years in the 1940s.
Grive worked at ''
Aftonbladet
''Aftonbladet'' (, lit. "The evening paper") is a Swedish daily newspaper published in Stockholm, Sweden. It is one of the largest daily newspapers in the Nordic countries.
History and profile
The newspaper was founded by Lars Johan H ...
'' newspaper from 1951 to 1956, and performed as a variety show artist from 1953 to 1960.
In 1960, he became a reporter for
Sveriges Television
Sveriges Television AB ("Sweden's Television Stock Company"), shortened to SVT (), is the Sweden, Swedish national public broadcasting, public television broadcaster, funded by a public service tax on personal income set by the Riksdag (national ...
, where he worked until 1990 when he became a freelance journalist.
In 1993, he started working for
Eurosport
Eurosport is a group of pay television networks in Europe and parts of Asia. Owned by Warner Bros. Discovery through Warner Bros. Discovery Sports#Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe properties, its international sports unit, it operates two ...
when the channel expanded its broadcast to the Nordics.
He got to commentate both tennis and ski jumping. He also became a mentor for amongst others
Chris Härenstam and
Niklas Holmgren.
He is best known for commentating
Björn Borg
Björn Rune Borg (; born 6 June 1956) is a Swedish former world No. 1 tennis player. Between 1974 and 1981, he became the first man in the Open Era to win 11 Grand Slam singles titles with six at the French Open and five consecutively at Wimb ...
's tennis finals in
Wimbledon
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during the 1970s and 1980s. He also commentated table tennis, figure skating and football. He was part of the Swedish elite in table tennis, during a few year and won the Swedish championship in the sport in 1951.
Personal life
In 1945, Grive married Marta Svensson (1923–2005), the daughter of Ivar Svensson, a merchant, and Linnéa (née Eriksson). They had one daughter, Madeleine Grive (born 1955), a journalist.
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1921 births
2003 deaths
Swedish sports broadcasters
Swedish male table tennis players
Journalists from Stockholm