Henry "Hank" Åkervall (August 24, 1937 – February 18, 2000) was a

Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice h ...

defenceman Defence or defense (in American English) in ice hockey is a player position that is primarily responsible for preventing the opposing team from scoring. They are often referred to as defencemen, D, D-men or blueliners (the latter a reference to ...

and Olympian. Åkervall won a national title in

1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wor ...

with

Michigan Tech Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech, MTU, or simply Tech) is a public research university in Houghton, Michigan, founded in 1885 as the Michigan Mining School, the first post-secondary institution in the Upper Peninsula of Michiga ...

. After graduating he played with Team Canada at the

1964 Winter Olympics The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games (german: IX. Olympische Winterspiele) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1964 ( bar, Innschbruck 1964, label=Austro-Bavarian), was a winter multi-sport event which was celebr ...

held in Innsbruck,

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

. After his hockey career he coached the Lakehead Nor'Westers to an

International Collegiate Hockey Association The International Collegiate Hockey Association (ICHA) was an intercollegiate ice hockey conference from 1965-80 competing in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). The conference had member schools in both Canada and the Unit ...

championship in 1967, was recreation director for Thunder Bay.
LAKEHEAD HOCKEY LEGEND TO RECEIVE WORLD BRONZE MEDAL

Awards and honors

References

External links

* * 1937 births 2000 deaths Canadian ice hockey defencemen Hamilton Tiger Cubs players Ice hockey players at the 1964 Winter Olympics Michigan Tech Huskies men's ice hockey players Olympic ice hockey players of Canada Sportspeople from Thunder Bay Tappara players Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Finland NCAA men's ice hockey national champions AHCA Division I men's ice hockey All-Americans {{Canada-icehockey-defenceman-1930s-stub