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Roy Berglöf
Roy Holger Berglöf (April 24, 1924 – July 27, 2017) was a Swedish curler. (look for "Berglöf, Roy") He was a two-time Swedish men's curling champion (1968, 1971) and played for Sweden in two . He was also a 1970 Swedish mixed curling champion. In 1972 he was inducted into the Swedish Curling Hall of Fame. He was also a bandy player, winning a bronze medal at the 1957 Bandy World Championship The 1957 Bandy World Championship was contested among three men's bandy playing nations and was the first ever Bandy World Championship. Norway declined to take part due to the Soviet invasion of Hungary in November 1956. The championship was pla .... Teams Men's Mixed Personal life His son Erik Berglöf is a curler too, Roy and Erik played together for Sweden at the . References External links * 1924 births 2017 deaths Sportspeople from Karlstad Swedish male curlers Swedish curling champions Swedish bandy players {{Sweden-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karlstad
Karlstad (, ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, 20th-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Karlstad Municipality, the capital of Värmland County, and the largest city in the province Värmland in Sweden. The city proper had 65,856 inhabitants in 2020 with 95,167 inhabitants in the wider municipality in 2021, and is the 21st biggest municipality in Sweden. Karlstad has a Karlstad University, university and a cathedral. During recent years, Karlstad has started building many new buildings, for example all the new buildings around Orrholmen, hosting a brand new Coop store and a 17 story high rise apartment which will be finished in late 2022. Karlstad is built on the river delta where Sweden's longest river, Klarälven, runs into Sweden's largest lake, Vänern. It has the second largest lake port in the country after Västerås. Karlstad is often associated with sunshine and the symbol for Karlstad is a smiling sun. Karlstad is reputed to be one of the sunniest tow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rune Forsberg
Rune Forsberg (1908–20 September 1997) was a Swedish scholar of Old English. Life Forsberg matriculated at Uppsala University Uppsala University ( sv, Uppsala universitet) is a public research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries still in operation. The university rose to significance durin ... in 1927, graduating with a master's degree (Fil.mag.) in 1932, a licentiate (Fil.lic.) in 1938, and a doctorate (PhD) in 1950.Karl Inge Sandred, 'Rune Forsberg 1908–1997', ''Journal of the English Place-Name Society'', 30 (1997–98), 158–59. His thesis, ''A Contribution to a Dictionary of Old English Place-names'', Nomina Germanica; arkiv för germansk namnforskning, 9 (Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksell), had begun as a contribution to a planned place-name dictionary by Forsberg's teacher Robert Eugen Zachrisson, but Zachrisson's early death prevented the realisation of the dictionary itself. Yet Forsberg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Male Curlers
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 the Swedish language * Swedish people or Swedes, persons with a Swedish ancestral or ethnic identity ** A national or citizen of Sweden, see demographics of Sweden The demography of Sweden is monitored by the ''Statistiska centralbyrån'' (Statistics Sweden). Sweden's population was 10,481,937 (May 2022), making it the 15th-most populous country in Europe after Czech Republic, the 10th-most populous m ... ** Culture of Sweden * Swedish cuisine See also * * Swedish Church (other) * Swedish Institute (other) * Swedish invasion (other) * Swedish Open (other) {{disambig Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sportspeople From Karlstad
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2017 Deaths
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1924 Births
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Ingegerd Hemmingson
Ingegerd (Old Norse ''Ingigerðr, Ingigærðr'') is a Scandinavian feminine given name, from the theonym '' Ing'' combined with the element ''garðr '' "enclosure, protection". The name Inger is a short form. In Finnish the equivalence of Ingegerd is Inkeri. ''Ingegerd'' (less commonly in the variant ''Ingegärd'') was most popularly given in modern Sweden during the 1920s to 1930s, but the name remains in wide use today. The name is also found in Denmark and in Norway (also in the variant ''Ingegjerd'' and ''Ingjerd'') but much more rarely than in Sweden. According to the respective statistic offices, as of 2012 there were 7792 people called Ingegerd in Sweden, compared to 127 in Norway and 76 in Denmark. In Finland, which has an ethnic Swedish population of about 0.34 million, there were 2594 people called Ingegerd as of May 2013, as in Sweden peaking among the generation of women born between 1920 and 1940, with the name given six times to girls born in three-year period 2010� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maggie Berglöf
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Sven Gustafson
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Lennart Hemmingson
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Swedish Senior Curling Championships
The Swedish Senior Curling Championships ( sv, Svenska mästerskap i curling för oldboys/oldgirls, SM Oldlag, SM Oldgirls/Oldboys, Senior SM, SM Seniorer, SSM) is an annual curling tournament held to determine the best senior-level men's and women's curling teams in Sweden. Senior level curlers must be over the age of 50 as of June 30 in the year prior to the tournament. It has been held annually since the 1962-1963 season for senior men ("oldboys") and the 1971-1972 season for senior women ("oldgirls"); (Champions senior men; from 1962—1963 to 2013—2014) (Champions senior women; from 1962—1963 to 2013—2014) the championship events are organized by the Swedish Curling Association ( sv, Svenska Curlingförbundet). The championship teams play at the World Senior Curling Championships The World Senior Curling Championships is an annual curling tournament featuring curlers from around the world who are at least 50 years old. Matches at the World Senior Championships are playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uno Jansson
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