IFK Lidingö is a

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sports club, part of the IFK system, based on the island of

Lidingö Lidingö, also known in its definite form ''Lidingön'' and as ''Lidingölandet'', is an island in the inner Stockholm archipelago, northeast of Stockholm, Sweden. In 2010, the population of the Lidingö urban area on the island was 31,561. It is ...

outside

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. Although the club takes part in numerous sports, it is most famous for its

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and

orienteering Orienteering is a group of sports that require navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a s ...

sections. The football team are called IFK Lidingö FK. The club was founded in 1932 and in 1985 it became an alliance club with independent sections. It currently has 400 members, most of them under around 15 years of age. The club arranges

Lidingöloppet Lidingöloppet is an annual cross country running competition held in Lidingö Municipality, Lidingö, Sweden. The 30 km run has about 15,000 participants per year and the shorter races several thousands, making it the largest cross-country ev ...

, which attracts nationwide attention.

Athletics

Most notable among former athletes at the club is

Ludmila Engquist Ludmila Viktorovna Engquist (née Leonova (russian: Людмила Викторовна Нарожиленко-Леонова). formerly Narozhilenko; born 21 April 1964) is a Russian-Swedish former athlete, who competed mainly in the 100 metres ...

and

Mattias Sunneborn Mattias Sunneborn (born 27 September 1970 in Bunge, Gotland) is a Sweden, Swedish long jumper. He was an Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's long jump#Finals, Olympic finalist in 1996. He was the 1996 1996 European Athletics Indoor C ...

Football

Famous former football players include

Mikael Dorsin Mikael Frank Dorsin (born 6 October 1981) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a left-back. He is the current Sporting Director of Rosenborg. Starting his career with Djurgårdens IF in the late 1990s, he went on to represe ...

and

Magnus Pehrsson Karl Magnus Pehrsson (born 25 May 1976) is a Swedish football manager and former professional player who is the Director of Football at Spanish club Vélez CF. Club career Pehrsson started his career in IFK Lidingö. He played for Djurgårde ...

Orienteering

The club won the 10-mila relay in 1951, the women's relay in 10-mila in 2010 and 25-manna in 1999. The runners became world champions:

Lucie Böhm Lucie Rothauer (née Böhm,Profile: Lucie (Böhm) Rothauer
– ' ...

(1997) and Graham Gristwood (2008). Other runners are: Marthe Andersson,

Annika Billstam Annika Billstam (born 8 March 1976) is a Sweden, Swedish orienteering Competition, competitor living in Uppsala. Formerly competing for OK Linné in Uppsala, Annika moved to Stockholm and switched to IFK Lidingö in the winter of 2007 before swit ...

, Mårten Boström,

Holger Hott Holger Hott, formerly Holger Hott Johansen, (born 8 April 1974) is a Norwegian orienteering competitor who has won two individual long-distance bronze medals in the World Championships in 2004 and 2005. He was part of Norway's relay team that to ...

, Fredrik Bakkman, Signe Søes and Chris Terkelsen.

References

External links

Football SectionAthletics SectionOrienteering Section
Sports teams in Sweden Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna 1932 establishments in Sweden Sports clubs established in 1932 Orienteering clubs in Sweden {{Sweden-sport-team-stub