Arvid Fredrik "Sparven" Spångberg (3 April 1890 – 11 May 1959) was a

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

Olympic bronze-medallist diver 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 ...

player. He competed in the

1908 Summer Olympics The 1908 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the IV Olympiad and also known as London 1908) were an international multi-sport event held in London, England, United Kingdom, from 27 April to 31 October 1908. The 1908 Games were ori ...

. He was born in

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

and died in

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. He won the bronze medal in the 10 metre platform event. As a diver, Spångberg represented

SK Neptun SK Neptun, ''Simklubben Neptun'', Swedish swim team from Stockholm founded October 12, 1906 by members from Stockholms KK. Home pool is Eriksdalsbadet in Stockholm. The club practises swimming, diving, water polo, synchronized swimming and masters ...

. Arvid Spångberg also played football and bandy, representing Skeppsholmens IF and

Djurgårdens IF Djurgårdens Idrottsförening, commonly known simply as Djurgårdens IF, Djurgården (), and (especially locally) Djurgår'n (), Dif or DIF – is a Swedish sports association with several sections, located in Stockholm. Name The club is named ...

. He played the 1908 Swedish bandy championship final with

Djurgårdens IF Bandy Djurgårdens IF Bandy is the bandy section of Swedish sports club Djurgårdens IF, located in Stockholm. History Djurgårdens IF was one of the teams playing at the Nordic Games in 1905, where the team lost the final to Uppsala HK. The club ...

against Östergötlands BF and was part winning Djurgården's first Swedish bandy championship.

Honours

Club

; Djurgårdens IF: *

Svenska Mästerskapet Svenska Mästerskapet was a Swedish football competition held as a cup to decide the Swedish Champions between 1896 and 1925. It was held during a short period, and all games were often played in either Gothenburg or Stockholm. For many years only ...

: 1908

References

External links

Arvid Spångberg's profile at Sports Reference.com
* 1890 births 1959 deaths Swedish male divers Swedish bandy players Divers at the 1908 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics Olympic divers for Sweden Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden Olympic medalists in diving Djurgårdens IF Bandy players SK Neptun divers Male high divers Divers from Stockholm 20th-century Swedish people {{Sweden-acrobatics-diving-bio-stub