Hans Andreas "Stöveln" Öberg (21 November 1926 – 9 March 2009) was a Swedish

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...

and bandy player. He represented his country at the

1952 Winter Olympics The 1952 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VI Olympic Winter Games (; ) and commonly known as Oslo 1952, were a winter multi-sport event held from 14 to 25 February 1952 in Oslo, the capital of Norway. Discussions about Oslo hosting ...

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, winning the bronze medal in the team competition. He also played on the Swedish team that finished fourth in the competition four years later at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Olympics. He was the brother of future Olympic silver medallist

Carl-Göran Öberg Carl-Göran "Lill-Stöveln" Öberg (born 24 December 1938) is a retired ice hockey player who won silver medals at the 1964 Winter Olympics and 1963 and 1967 world championships. He was nicknamed Lill-Stöveln (Little Stöveln) after his elder b ...

. He played club hockey for

Gävle Godtemplares IK Gävle ( ; ) is a Urban areas in Sweden, city in Sweden, the seat of Gävle Municipality and the capital of Gävleborg County. It had 79,004 inhabitants in 2020, which makes it the List of cities in Sweden, 13th-most-populated city in Sweden. I ...

, with whom he won the

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award in 1957, a year after his 1952 international teammate

Åke Lassas Åke Erik Lassas (21 August 1924 – 16 April 2009) was a Swedish ice hockey player. He competed at the 1952 and 1956 Winter Olympics and finished in third and fourth place, respectively. He played club hockey for Leksands IF and won the inaugur ...

. Öberg also played football and bandy, and won the Swedish bandy championship in 1959 with

Skutskärs IF Skutskärs IF is a bandy club in Skutskär, Sweden. The formal name of the club is ''Skutskärs IF/Bandyklubb''. The team colours are green and yellow. History The club was formally founded in 1989, when the former Skutskärs IF of 1915 was spl ...

.Hans Öberg
Swedish Olympic Committee

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Oberg, Hans 1926 births 2009 deaths Ice hockey players at the 1952 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 1956 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1952 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden Olympic ice hockey players for Sweden Olympic medalists in ice hockey Sportspeople from Gävle Skutskärs IF players Swedish bandy players Swedish ice hockey players Gävle GIK players