Selånger SK is a sports club in

Sundsvall Sundsvall () is a city and the seat of Sundsvall Municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden. It has a population of 58,807 as of 2020; more than 95,000 live in the municipal area. It is Sweden's 21st largest city by population. History Th ...

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

, established in 1921. The club runs

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 ...

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

Nordic skiing Nordic skiing encompasses the various types of skiing in which the toe of the ski boot is fixed to the Ski binding, binding in a manner that allows the heel to rise off the ski, unlike alpine skiing, where the boot is attached to the ski from toe ...

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 ...

and ski orienteering, earlier even table tennis, cycling, track and field athletics, racewalking,

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

and figure skating. The men's bandy team has played 26 seasons in the Swedish top division and was runner-up for the Swedish Championship in 1981. The women's bandy team was runner-up for the Swedish Championship in 1981. Following a decision taken during an extra annual meeting on 19 June 1991, the club became an alliance club starting on 1 October the same year. it consists of three sections: Selånger SK Bandy, Selånger FK and

Selånger SOK Selånger () is a small village in Sundsvall Municipality, Sweden. The village has grown up around Selånger Church. Selångersån runs through the village. Selånger is known for its sports club Selånger SK with the department clubs Selånger ...

. Famous skiers who have competed for the club are

Sven Selånger Sven Selånger (born Sven Ivan Eriksson, 19 March 1907 – 9 November 1992) was a Swedish Nordic skier. He competed at the 1928, 1932 and 1936 Olympics in the Nordic combined and ski jumping events and won a silver in the jumping in 1936. In 193 ...

, Anna-Lisa Eriksson and

Arja Hannus Arja Hannus is a Swedish orienteering competitor, competing for sports club Selånger SK. She won the 1987 Individual World Orienteering Championships The World Orienteering Championships (or WOC for short) is an annual orienteering event org ...

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