Hjalmar Erik Wilheim "Jerka, Burre" Burman (6 December 1897 – 31 March 1985) was a Swedish

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player, footballer, and bandy player. He competed in the

1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; nl, Olympische Zomerspelen van 1920; german: Olympische Sommerspiele 1920), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIe olympiade; nl, Spelen van ...

and in the

1924 Winter Olympics The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games (french: Iers Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Chamonix 1924 ( frp, Chamôni 1924), were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France ...

. In 1920 he was a member of the Swedish ice hockey team which finished fourth in the Summer Olympics tournament. He played five matches and scored four goals. Eric Burman became the first goal scorer for Sweden ever, by scoring against Belgium on 23 April 1920. In the 1921 European Championship, Burman played for Sweden in the one game they played against

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. He scored three goals to help lead Sweden to a 6–4 win and a Championship title. Four years later he finished again fourth with the Swedish team in the first Winter Olympics ice hockey tournament. Burman played both hockey and

bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...

for

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. After the Olympics 1920 he played in Europe with

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, 1921 and 1923. He won Swedish hockey championships 1923, 1929 and 1930, and

Swedish bandy champions Swedish bandy champions () is a title held by the winners of the final of the highest Swedish bandy league played each year, Elitserien. The final is called ''Svenska bandyfinalen'' ("Swedish Bandy Final") and is played in March. From the 2007 ...

hips in 1929, together with

. He was living in Berlin before he moved to Antwerp and played hockey there with CP Antwerp, before he moved to United States and some games with Minneapolis Street Runners.http://www.azhockey.com/Bu.htm a to z encyclopaedia of ice hockey He later returned to Sweden, and on 26 November 1940 Eric Burman became the oldest player ever in Swedish championships in hockey. In this match he also became the oldest ever scorer in Swedish in the same game. He was then 42 years, 11 months and 20 days, when IK Göta played

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in Svenska Serien, the highest league in Swedish ice hockey between seasons 1935/1936 through 1943/1944.http://www.swehockey.se Svenska Ishockeyförbundethttp://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv4n2/JOHv4n2c.pdf "THE BIRTH OF SWEDISH ICE HOCKEY - ANTWERP 1920" av Kenth Hansen

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Burman, Erik 1897 births 1985 deaths Men's association football players not categorized by position Berliner SC players Djurgårdens IF Fotboll players Ice hockey players at the 1920 Summer Olympics Ice hockey players at the 1924 Winter Olympics IK Göta Bandy players IK Göta Ishockey players Olympic ice hockey players for Sweden Ice hockey people from Stockholm Swedish bandy players Swedish men's footballers Swedish expatriate ice hockey players in Germany