Torbjörn Ek (25 June 1949 – 18 August 2010) was a Swedish

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 ...

and

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player and manager. He was considered one of the country's top bandy players during the 1970s and early 1980s. Ek was capped 102 times for the

Swedish national bandy team The Sweden national bandy team ( sv, Sveriges herrlandslag i bandy) represents Sweden in the sport of bandy. There are two separate national teams, a national bandy team for men, and a national bandy team for women. This article deals chiefly wit ...

, scoring 89 goals, and was a member of silver-medal winning teams at the Bandy World Cup on 6 occasions. He was a member of the team which won the junior bandy world cup in 1967. In 1975 Ek's team Ljusdals BK won the Swedish bandy league. He managed the Swedish national bandy team for 1 match, in 1993. Ek also had an elite football career, playing in 62

Allsvenskan Allsvenskan (; en, the All-Swedish, also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan, en, the Football All-Swedish) is a Swedish professional league for men's association football clubs. It was founded in 1924 and is the top tier of the Swedish football lea ...

matches, for AIK (1971–1973) and

GIF Sundsvall Gymnastik- och Idrottsföreningen Sundsvall, more commonly known as GIF Sundsvall (), Giffarna or simply Sundsvall, is a Swedish professional football club based in Sundsvall. The club is affiliated with Medelpads Fotbollförbund and plays its h ...

(1975), winning a silver medal as a member of the AIK team which finished as runner-up in the 1972 season.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ek, Torbjorn 1947 births 2010 deaths People from Ljusdal Municipality Swedish bandy players Swedish men's footballers Swedish football managers AIK Fotboll players GIF Sundsvall players Allsvenskan players Ljusdals BK players Västerås SK Bandy players Men's association football players not categorized by position Sportspeople from Gävleborg County